"CPSC staff believes the Peloton Tread+ poses serious risks to children for abrasions, fractures, and death.
"There is no reason to stop using the Tread+, as long as all warnings and safety instructions are followed," the company"The decision to recall both products was the right thing to do for Peloton’s Members and their families," Foley said."I want to be clear, Peloton made a mistake in our initial response to the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s request that we recall the Tread+. We should have engaged more productively with them from the outset. For that, I apologize.
The CPSC said there has now been a total of 70 incidents. Peloton said it will work with the commission to set new industry safety standards for treadmills, saying:"We have a desire and a responsibility to be an industry leader in product safety.”
If ur kid dies from one of these it probably deserved it. Best to weed em out early
Your new name shall be 'Mudd.'
Seems like almost any engineer in the world could figure out a way to make this more safe, I could. A good one could even still preserve whatever deliberate 'iconic design' they have going on, doing so.
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