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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can they just recall the negligent parents?[/quote] So now it’s negligent to work out while a two year old naps? She wakes up, comes to find you on the treadmill, and gets life-changing injuries. No one but Peloton to blame there. [/quote] Your kid shouldn’t be able to get near the tread. Especially if it’s moving. Ever. This is on you as a parent. [/quote] The best way to keep your kid from getting near it is for the thing not to be in the house. Never create a system that requires human perfection when you could have one that defaults to the safer circumstance.[/quote] Anything can cause anyone to be injured. Should you not keep plastic bags in the house because a kid might put it on his head? Or forks, because a kid will stick one in the electric socket?[/quote] There is no good substitute for forks. The substitute for a particularly dangerous kind of treadmill is a less dangerous kind of treadmill. [/quote] There is no substitute for good parenting. How about a monitor to watch your napping children to a baby gate to make that room off-limits. You can unplug the machine, put the safety key away from their reach so they can’t turn it on. With any equipment accidents will happen but a lot of it is negligent parenting, lack of common sense parenting. I did watch the video where the exercise ball got sucked in under and the woman had to hop off the machine. So nothing is accident proof but a lot of it is personal responsibility.[/quote] The appropriate number of dead kids because of a more dangerous treadmill model when there is a less-dangerous treadmill model available is zero. Yes, there are things parents can and should do in order to eliminate the danger. But the standard for banning products does not involve the government saying "well, kids with bad parents, guess you're just out of luck on this." [/quote] If that's the case, let's ban gas stoves too. Electric stoves are much safer.[/quote] Sorry that's not good enough. A toddler might touch the plate, only Induction cooktops are acceptable now in the U.S.[/quote] Yeah, and eff those people who want the Consumer Product Safety Commission to address the dangers of home elevators, too! Instead just ban bad parenting. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/home-elevator-deaths/2019/07/18/27b53434-968e-11e9-830a-21b9b36b64ad_story.html[/quote]
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