It is hard to imagine that there was not someone inside of Nike that lost their faith in humanity when the pitch for these things was originally taking off.

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Not a complicated engineering problem to solve though. A weak enough stepper motor wont be able to strangle anything even if its controlling software is hacked and turned to 11.

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      5 months ago

      For sure, but a large many modern problems which result in fatalities daily are not hard engineering problems to solve.