Nobody would know if you died in the throes of epic pleasure

http://gizmodo.com/5157354/boy-killed-anally-when-office-chair-explodes

Appro name btw

Sounds like there was way too much pressure in that damn cylinder too

It happened in China according to the article, so Chink Shit chair. Probably manufactured without regulations.

So Trump's America. Gotcha

Also, libertarian paradise

Exploding rectum land

Sexxxxxy

Free market would technically fix that if it happened in America. People would stop buying chairs from the company and a 3rd party regulatory establishment would be created to independently verify chairs.

It's just the death in the first place that leads to the actions. Reactionary style regulations.

Is there a UL equivalent in China

Underwriter's Laboratory

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ if that even means anything nowadays

There are probably 3rd party regulators. Independently verifying luxury goods.

Probably cheaper to get them verified in China before export than verifying them in the destination country

Just a 30c piece of chinkshit isn't worth verifying.

http://corporate.findlaw.com/litigation-disputes/suing-underwriters-laboratories-in-a-products-liability-case.html

I don't think 3rd parties work anymore

The internet is a powerful tool for self-regualtion too. If anyone gets injured by a product, it's all over social media quickly.

So companies want to avoid it.

And I can anecdotally tell you that from personal experience, commercial and profit based auditors are generally a little lax and follow a lot of personal bias to save time, their own and their clients' in kind

Companies and management folks don't generally prioritize these things. Verification is a bothersome roadblock that they want to get through with as little fanfare as possible- 9/10 times they put that burden on engineers, who sometimes aren't going to be at their best judgment level

Esp after pulling that 50-60 hour week yet again because the damn designer wanted the device to have some ridiculous initialization sequence for a e s t h e t i c

So they're gonna just say fukkit

A lot of consumer products nowadays are pretty close to being safe from factory. Without the need to quality check.

Kek

As production process get more automated, the chances of safety issues decrease too.

Main issues are still around electrical goods.

What if the design spec is garbage

As seen with Samsungs prones

phones*

We will eventually get to a point where designis automated too

Where the limit is resources rather than ambition

Not sure if you speak from experience or not but you're right about the process being more automated, but it's hard to say if safety is going to be a priority, vs time to market

Dev cycles already have corners cut like crazy

Imagine your electronics having the same weird bugs as your average Web 2.0 nodejs nubfest

When you have a fully automated production cycle, time to market will be about getting the raw materials in time, rather than the output to shops

and a 3rd party regulatory establishment would be created to independently verify chairs > yeah lmao just like rating agencies :^)

The inputs will be the slowing factor, rather than the outputs

You sound like a blackboxy manager