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> a world of liability is escaped by avoiding that feature add

Huh? There are no refrigerators that don't have that feature.

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“That feature add” referred to auto-closure, I’d imagine.

Every refrigerator I have used does this with gravity.

Perhaps a regional specificity? Personally I've never seen such an auto-closing fridge in France.

It’s nothing special. The fridge is just leveled so the hinge is slightly higher on both sides. The door then naturally swings closed. Do French refrigerators have some kind of mechanism that would prevent this? Like a latch of some kind?

We just have them perfectly level, so the door does not move at all on its own.

Weird. Why?

I don't know. When I google this question in French, I see people whose fridge door does close on its own, asking for how to solve this issue; so they must find it inconvenient.

You are not insane, I have also never seen any fridge that auto closes (I'm from central Europe).

> “That feature add” referred to auto-closure, I’d imagine.

Yes, of course; what do you think the alternative was? There are no refrigerators that don't have that feature.

Based on my experience, that statement is not only wrong, but obviously so. Because of that, I assumed it was not what you meant.

You should try using a fridge sometime.

Kind of. My home refrigerator does this and it just works. The one at work regular gets hung up nearly shut. There's a local minimum in the almost closed state. It only has enough momentum to close if builds up enough speed.

The ideal refrigerator should self close from any angle of open-ness. This is definitely not the case in general today.

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