I fucking hate motion-sensing faucets so much. We can edit the human genome, but are unable to make a motion sensor that actually fucking works?! Fuck outta here.
I actually prefer the old-school “push-down and have limited time” type at this point.
I just want a foot pedal to press. Public toilets should also have those just for hygienic reasons.
I really miss these hand washing stations we had in elementary school.
Holy shit that memory just hit me like a sack of bricks
These were in several of the trades buildings in my post secondary. often stocked with fast orange and sunlight industrial.
Wait that’s a pee station at the concert venue
You guessed it
Here is a metal
Bonus points for eye contact
Let’s just hope it’s not both.
Why not? Sound much more effective if it was both.
You can wash your hands in someone’s pee and save water
I’m not sure if this is ADA compliant. It might be the reason why we don’t see these very often. I had one of these at work though.
ADA compliancy is such a BS hurdle sometimes.
“Hey we made this improvement that will help 99.99% of all people!”
“What about the remaining 0.01%?”
“Well, no, unfortunately it won’t work for those edge cases”
“Ewww… Well it’s not allowed then. If a blind man in a wheelchair with a service dog can’t use it, then no one can!”
You have correctly identified that it’s not a lack of technological advancement that is holding our society back.
Now go solve social sciences, economics, psychology, and neuroscience. Come back and we’ll talk about how to design a world where nobody happens to install a motion sensor with a wrong range.
This and most washroom faucets have too little space for washing hands. The space from the spout to the back and bottom of the sink doesn’t allow for rinsing whilst scrubbing without touching the sink. Infuriating.
They’re not actually intended for washing your hands but rather for ticking the ‘customer hand-washing facility available’ box and providing jobs for interior designers nephews.
Mildly so.
You should be scrubbing before you rinse, not both together.
Okay, you tell me how to wash my hands…
I wet my hands, get soap, scrub, and continue to scrub as I rinse. Not going to stand there for 2 minutes for all the soap to rinse off on its own. Your way is actually worse because you end up having to maneuver your hands a lot more to get all the soap off to the wrists. And good luck trying to wash your forearms.
It shouldn’t take 2 minutes to rinse soap off of your hands. It takes me like 5 second.
How much soap are you using?
at the office we have the ones you have to push down–and hold for the water to run. i’ve encountered them elsewhere and you get 10-20 seconds before the water shuts off… ours doesn’t. by the time you get your hand down to the water, it’s shut off.
It’s a pretty common problem, honestly.
Still mildly infuriating.
Yup. I definitely ding off points for it when I do my mental restroom reviews.
LPT: For faucets like this (or if you just want running water to wash something) get a paper towel. Wet it under the water and then put it over the sensor.
Toilet paper also works but it’s messier.
Just use clean toilet paper off the roll damn
I have seen something like this a lot. Many more that work fine but but they certainly don’t seem to be at the five 9’s or two nines or maybe even one nine. maybe one nine.
five 9’s or two nines or maybe even one nine. maybe one nine.
This is the first time I hear this expression, what does it mean?
“Five Nines” typically refers to something that works 99.999% of the time, which still allows for 1 screw-up out of 100,000.
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I learned it working telecom. For example, if you wish to offer 911 service, your service has to be operational 99.999% of the time.
It’s more casually used to mean a service or operation is insanely reliable.
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I think they intend for you to wash not only the hands but up to the elbow as well
How else could it work? Otherwise it will detect the water flowing and never switch off.
“How could this badly designed thing work if it wasn’t so badly designed?” Sometimes, if you can’t make a thing work, the solution is to use something else that does. And sometimes the solution is just to make it better, like directing the IR detection beams just to either side of the water stream.
