No, they didn’t “make a mistake;” they made a calculated financial decision. And it should never have been only a “recommendation” to begin with. The safety agency should have been empowered from the beginning to shut it down until corrections were made. nytimes.com/2021/05/05/busin…

Peloton Recalls Treadmills After Injuries and a Child’s Death (Published 2021)

The chief executive of Peloton said the company “made a mistake” by initially resisting a U.S. safety agency’s warning about the devices last month.

nytimes.com

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This is what is meant by “agency capture.”Safety agencies overseeing products, food etc. have been consistently disempowered over last few decades. They can only make polite “recommendations,” w/ less power now to actually take things off the shelves - & people die because of it.
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Mariane, In honor of Hank, Do u mind retweeting this? Thank you so much 😊
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Controlling treadmills was always going to lead to this. On a bike, you can stop pedalling. On a rower you can stop rowing. On a treadmill.....you're bounced off.
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Anyone with an ounce of common sense could see that this device can pull a small body under it. Should never have been marketed as is, but greed won out. Peloton was riding the COVID wave w well-off PMC work-from-homers unable to attend closed gyms.
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It sometimes makes my heart so heavy that this is the reality we live in...profits over people. Not just here, but everywhere
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I really just wonder the brilliant minds that decided to leave an open back where the track turns over, yeah it looks cooler but there’s a reason why every treadmill covers that area
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Corrections are don’t let your kids near gym equipment 🙈
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Profits over people is never a good look.
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Here’s an idea. How about people supervise their children? It’s mechanical equipment. CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE PLAYING ON IT. Do children play w/ knives? How about accountability for parents and not crucifying the company for parental ineptitude.
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Navigating risk and reputation at the cost of consumer lives is merely peak capitalism. See: automakers and their faulty ignitions, seatbelt fires, sticky accelerators, airbag shrapnel, etc etc etc.
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Same thing happened with IKEA and their dressers toppling over and killing children. Nothing happened even after they received safety agency reports.
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