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Is that not required by law? Surely the engineers thought about this scenario and advised management to include a safety limit switch. Did management just ignore the engineers?

This seems like another Ford Pinto where the company decided it was cheaper to settle the lawsuits than fix the product.

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I fear that some engineer(s) probably said at some point: what if a puppy/toddler is grabbed/pinched/pulled underneath?

At which moment the product director got a mini heart-attack, sensed his/her bonus was at stake, and immediately asked the engineer(s) to be transferred to other projects.

I have a favorie Dilbert for such cases: https://dilbert.com/strip/1998-04-10

"Not a team player"

"Move fast and break things."

Edit: I didn’t mean to offend, or to be morbid. I was making a point about how that particular mindset often doesn’t lead to products that care about “boring” things like safety or long term reliability.

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