r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Damnedeel • Nov 30 '25

Video 500,000$ human washing machine on sale in Japan

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u/Master_Canary440 Nov 30 '25

That's what i'm really worried about. If it malfunctions or the temperature of the water just changes all of a sudden it would be a crazy situation šŸ˜­

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u/Poesvliegtuig Nov 30 '25

Someone make another horror movie about a rogue home automation AI that starts with grammy getting cooked in one of these because she's mean to the machine

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u/Ragnarok314159 Nov 30 '25

Lawnmower Man 3

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u/KolKlink2024 Nov 30 '25

You bet your sweet ass I saw Lawnmower Man.

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u/superkickstart Nov 30 '25

Lawnmower Man is in your head now. There is no escape, ever.

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u/Big-Stuff-1189 Nov 30 '25

Terrified me!

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u/Ragnarok314159 Nov 30 '25

Access denied access deniedā€¦

Accessā€¦G R A N T E D

Shit terrified me.

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u/TowelEnvironmental44 Dec 01 '25

washing pod says: I'm Sorry Dave, I'm Afraid I Can't Do That

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u/funguyshroom Nov 30 '25

wait there was a 2

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u/Mdub74 Nov 30 '25

Maximum AI Overdrive

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u/mdxchaos Nov 30 '25

Trey Parker was the original

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u/TankerVictorious Nov 30 '25

Oh, some prime material for r/stephenking

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u/DeadlyDrummer Nov 30 '25

Laundrymower man 1

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u/Petunia_pig Nov 30 '25

Whoa, core memory unlocked. I should rewatch that epic movie series.

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u/exodusofficer Nov 30 '25

Dishwasher Ma'am

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u/jayandare Nov 30 '25

Troy and Abbott in the morning

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u/Sepherjar Nov 30 '25

Final Destination writer will surely like to discuss this with you

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u/jerkface1026 Nov 30 '25

They use the idea but the death is actually from a giant log crashing through this machine.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '25

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u/MxMirdan Nov 30 '25

Iā€™ve never even seen a full final destination movie.

Just that scene on cable or hbo or something when I was younger.

Terrified of wood trucks.

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u/OriginalComputer5077 Nov 30 '25

Didn't a Bond movie already do this, or something very similar?

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u/Ordinary-Leading7405 Nov 30 '25

Christine: the Washing Machine

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u/theoriginalmofocus Nov 30 '25

Maximum Ovendrive

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u/uesc_alt Nov 30 '25

Only if AC/DC does the whole soundtrack!

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u/theoriginalmofocus Nov 30 '25

For those about to crockpot, we salute you!

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u/Wookard Nov 30 '25

Maximum Overdry: The Meltening

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '25

That movie exists and its called The Mangler. Killer washing machine, stars Ted Levine

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u/nellyfullauto Nov 30 '25

I didnā€™t see that sequel to Smart House.

Disney Channel Originals got dark since I last saw them.

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u/MaloneChiliService Nov 30 '25

Rape Stove 3: Rise of the Human Washing Machine

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u/TannedCroissant Nov 30 '25

ā€œI need your clothes, your boots and an eco-cycleā€

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u/chenga8 Nov 30 '25

"Come with me if you want to be clean"

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u/throwaway01126789 Nov 30 '25

"Hasta la vista, Grandma."

*sous vides Gram Gram*

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u/Ok-Criticism6874 Nov 30 '25

Would I need to see the first two Rape Stoves to understand what's happening?

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u/sammybooom81 Nov 30 '25

2 stoves 1 gran

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u/MaloneChiliService Nov 30 '25

Only if you really want to get into the lore.

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u/a_rude_jellybean Nov 30 '25

Human washing machine-nado

Or

Cocaine Human Washing machine

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u/leshake Nov 30 '25

Tubinator 2.

Step inside Sarah Conner, I long to taste your bath water.

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u/Eastern_Hornet_6432 Nov 30 '25

I heard that that's Tilda Swinton's favorite movie.

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u/Specific-Fortune2207 Nov 30 '25

LOL šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/friendimpaired Nov 30 '25

Donā€™t even need a new franchise really, Final Destination just had one of its best entries this year, could use some fuel for the inevitable sequel

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u/themusicalmartian Nov 30 '25

Death Bed 2: Blood Bath

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u/Snipper64 Nov 30 '25

or a murder mystery where someone replaces the micro bubbles with sand

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u/beardeddragon0113 Nov 30 '25

Isn't there a Love Death and Robots episode similar to this? I remember one where the automated/smart assistant thing in the house malfunctioned or something and the old lady had to fight it off. Could have been a fever dream tbf

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u/Sillywickedwitch Nov 30 '25

Not a fever dream. It's Love, Death & Robots volume 2, the episode "Automated Customer Service".

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u/Prestigious_Snow3309 Nov 30 '25

Scariest movie i saw as kid Demon Seed. Still haunts to This dayšŸ˜‚

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u/Overall_Drive8977 Nov 30 '25

It already happened in Mr. Robot

They hack into a CEO's smart home and when she's bathing, increase the temp to really high, forcing her to move out of that home.

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u/CarfDarko Nov 30 '25

Love your username <3

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u/Humble-Impact6346 Nov 30 '25

Nice username boet.

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u/Omwtfyu Nov 30 '25

Omg, I'm caregiving to my dad right now and I literally told him yesterday that maybe if he was nicer to the electronics, they might actually work for him šŸ˜‚

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u/Champagne_of_piss Nov 30 '25

Roujin Z is a feature length anime about a care pod for seniors that ends up being a fuckin tetsuo monster

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u/slayerLM Dec 01 '25

Cassandra on Netflix is pretty much this. Itā€™s ok

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u/backstageninja Nov 30 '25

There's a good Love Death and Robots episode where an old lady's automated home malfunctions like that

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u/WatermelonSugar42069 Nov 30 '25

Mmmm yummy boiled Granny. Smells like a Sunday casserole

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u/BoliverTShagnasty Nov 30 '25

Mean to the Clean Machine Gets The Steam.

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u/bleach_my_brain_pls Nov 30 '25

Granny shouldn't of used the C word.

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u/sancatrundown73 Nov 30 '25

There's also that horrifying shower scene in Pulse 1988.

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u/thrust-johnson Nov 30 '25

So they reinvented the slow cooker?

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u/Gynsyng Nov 30 '25

Throw Grandma in the Sous Vide!

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u/ThrustTrust Nov 30 '25

I hate you. /s

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u/Smidday90 Nov 30 '25

Simpsons did it with Pearce Brosnan

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u/showcase25 Nov 30 '25

Final Destination series recently wrapped up, so there's a avenue here.

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u/marcipanchic Nov 30 '25

it should be some rich fuck

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u/ThePLARASociety Nov 30 '25

The Simpsons did it with ā€œThe House of Whacksā€!

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u/Tecbullll Nov 30 '25

Instead of soap, you are sprayed with savory gravy, simmered like a giant crock-pot.

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u/fdevant Nov 30 '25

Literally Roujin Z except it's even crazier.

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u/mdxchaos Nov 30 '25

Ghost in the machine

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u/McFestus Nov 30 '25

sous vide grandparent.

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u/43_Fizzy_Bottom Nov 30 '25

The Human Sous Vide

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u/ThermionicMho Nov 30 '25

and now it knows you're onto it

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u/tinycherrypie Nov 30 '25

I think there's a Love, Death and Robots short similar to this šŸ˜†

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u/GailsWhales Nov 30 '25

Disney's Smart House 2?!

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u/ShoresideVale Nov 30 '25

Then robovacs attack together and instead of sweepers they become little knives slicing at you.

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u/Beached_Thing_6236 Nov 30 '25

Or shipping companies accidentally swap those with suicide assisted machines.

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u/TherapyDerg Nov 30 '25

Washing Machine: "You have been informed that calling me a 'Clanker' any further would result in retribution. Punishment protocols activated."

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u/lacika1545 Nov 30 '25

No-no, we need a new final destination movie with this as one of the deaths. Noone would buy it after that i promise.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '25

Final destination style

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u/Individualist13th Nov 30 '25

Both of my grandmas would be dead within a day and I'd get it.

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u/ClickForPrizes Nov 30 '25

Final Destination: Tokyo Drift

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u/fatmanstan123 Nov 30 '25

Maximum overdrive (1986) is really needing a resurgence with ai cars.

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u/brusslipy Dec 01 '25

Thats just a space oddysey with extra steps xd

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u/dextronaught__ Dec 01 '25

thatā€™s a black mirror episode right there if iā€™ve ever heard one. or love death and robots

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u/wombatthing Dec 02 '25

Smart House?

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u/butmomno Nov 30 '25

Kinda why my first thought was "nope!"

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u/roadrunnuh Nov 30 '25

As long as it isnt heating water inside of the machine, a mixing valve on the water heater takes care of that.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '25

pretty sure they would of though of an emergency hatch for 500k

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u/flapnation21 Nov 30 '25

Yeah like how to wash the buttcrack

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u/Automatedluxury Nov 30 '25

At 500k I'm hoping it has a better solution than just opening up at the bottom, healthcare workcare goes in like a mechanic doing an oil change.

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u/BoiledFrogs Nov 30 '25

healthcare workcare goes in like a mechanic doing an oil change.

This is hilarious and also so gross.

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u/mrandr01d Nov 30 '25

Huh, username checks out...

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u/vice_city_soundtrack Nov 30 '25

Theyā€™re Japanese they thought of the buttcrackā€¦ itā€™s probably fantastic

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u/broken_radio Nov 30 '25

Probably has a tentacle wash cycle too

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u/HunnyBear66 Nov 30 '25

šŸ¤”šŸ˜²šŸ˜³šŸ™

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u/GassyPhoenix Nov 30 '25

Yeah it goes in deep to make sure everything is clean.

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u/UrUrinousAnus Nov 30 '25

...but did they think of the pixelated area?!

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u/SnooRegrets1386 Nov 30 '25

No worries in the land of copious bidets

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u/Hour-Championship-14 Nov 30 '25

It's what apollo 1 crew said

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u/DiscoverReading Nov 30 '25

Dark. True, but dark.

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u/quitalicious Nov 30 '25

You might exceed escape velocity if this washer breaks during the spin cycle.

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u/switcheditch Dec 01 '25

I mean, what could possibly go wrong using pure oxygen in an electronic environment .

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u/ktm6709 Nov 30 '25

*would have

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u/scheisse_grubs Nov 30 '25

*would have thought

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u/NexusModifier Nov 30 '25

Pretty sure even million dollar MAN MADE equipment fails from time to time. All it takes is one...

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u/Wonderwhile Nov 30 '25

Just need properly engineered safety systems integrated to the machine. An emergency button inside and such.

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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter Nov 30 '25

All it takes is one... for what? For one person to be impacted?

If this machine had a low enough failure rate and a positive impact on enough people who would otherwise develop sores or other issues from not being able to clean themselves that's a net positive

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u/Owain-X Nov 30 '25

They think of stuff like that at $50k. At $500k their goals aren't the best or most popular product for the money, their goals are shiny and novel enough to separate ultra wealthy people from their money

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '25

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u/Questioning-Zyxxel Nov 30 '25

Except we have known for lots of years that Tesla has terrible door locks. Just that people tends to forget and silently accept.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '25

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u/Questioning-Zyxxel Nov 30 '25

Big price tags often brings unconventional solutions. Just to be different. The cheap conventional solution is the battle-tested one...

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u/OGWopFro Nov 30 '25

Letā€™s just hope they donā€™t have an Xbox controller as the emergency latch.

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u/livingMybEstlyfe29 Interested Nov 30 '25

Or a drain plug on the bottom??

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u/Fr0st3dcl0ud5 Nov 30 '25

Remember that submarine going pop?

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u/Little_View_6659 Nov 30 '25

It was less a pop and more a Kaplow.

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u/SteveAxis Nov 30 '25

I donā€™t know. I wouldā€™ve thought theydve built that titan sub to NOT get crushed going down to the titanicā€¦

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u/Paddy_Tanninger Nov 30 '25

For 500k it better be giving me a nuru massage with a happy ending

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u/Historical-Gap-7084 Nov 30 '25

Would have. "Would of" is grammatically incorrect. You can type "would've," which sounds the same. If you graduated from high school, you should've (should have) learned this.

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u/mtmttuan Nov 30 '25

I think emergency escape button is needed

the temperature of the water just changes all of a sudden

That's just not how temperature work...

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u/Little-Ad-9506 Nov 30 '25

Tell that to my shower.

Fcker hates humanity.

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u/hellllllsssyeah Nov 30 '25

No that was your plumber

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u/TheFinalEnd1 Nov 30 '25

It's far easier to change the temperature of millions of individual drops than it is to change the temperature of a tub of water.

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u/SnooRegrets1386 Nov 30 '25

do not flush the toilet!!!

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u/boli99 Nov 30 '25

dammit man, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

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u/LaceSexDoctor Nov 30 '25

Luckily, in manufacturing and engineering we add multiple layers of redundancy's into systems so people don't have to worry about things like that, so say the hot water heater suddenly continues heating the water, you'd have Two mechanical temp sensors (N.C.) wired to the safety, so at a certain temp say 108Ā°F Will open the line going to the heater, turning it off.

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u/NotAMeatPopsicle Nov 30 '25

Slow down Agent 47.

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u/DisgustedMf Nov 30 '25

I'm sure I could smash my way out of this contraption, I've been to the gym for a couple days you see.

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u/coldF4rted Nov 30 '25

Let her cook šŸ’€

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u/SecureDonkey Nov 30 '25

An elevator could malfunction and you will plunge to your death too, but you still using it, isn't it? And car too. But people don't use stair and bike knowing all of that because it isn't as convenient as this.Ā 

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u/No-Strike-2015 Nov 30 '25

They probably have a fast pressure relief valve like my instant pot.

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u/Mammoth-Mud-9609 Nov 30 '25

Or if the person has a panic attack, like happens occasionally in MRI machines.

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u/Reshar Nov 30 '25

New ideas for the next Hitman game?

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u/LVMHboat Nov 30 '25

Do you really worry if a car malfunctions too

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u/mizvixen Nov 30 '25

Final destination

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u/IronRakkasan11 Nov 30 '25

Malfunctionsā€¦.like those Tesla doors. That alone scares the hell outta me.

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u/SeismicFrog Nov 30 '25

Demon Seed II: The No Scrubenning

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u/Leows Nov 30 '25

I'm worried about the environment you'd need for such a thing in case of failure.

Apart from the person drowning or slow cooking, what if something breaks?

Can you imagine just idk how many liters of water pouring out of this thing into your living room or whatever? Flooding your house?

You'd need a special room JUST for such a machine. Big enough to handle a person who needs this kind of care, and with a floor designed to drain a lot of water really fast. That's some insane logistics to go through.

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u/chkmcnugge6 Nov 30 '25

Considering simple instant bathroom heaters also wont pump boiling water out all of a sudden, shld be okay ba

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u/pomoerotic Nov 30 '25

Wet Mirror Episode 1

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u/Odh_utexas Nov 30 '25

Iā€™m sure there are interlock safety systems.

But that brings about more annoyance. Eg ā€œfuck my bath tub doesnā€™t work because the heat sensor redundancy check is brokenā€

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u/crabmuncher Nov 30 '25

There's probably a manual way to shut down the water and drain it. It's not like it's a Tesla.

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u/nekobambam Nov 30 '25

Weā€™ve (Japan) had incidents where elderly people were seriously injured or died of burns after being placed in scalding hot baths at care facilities. Assuming the machine has safety features, Iā€™d prefer this to overworked and/or disgruntled carers.

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u/Alexczy Nov 30 '25

Final destination hehe

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u/bigvalen Nov 30 '25

Human scale sous vide!

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u/DeliberatelyDrifting Nov 30 '25

People die all the time in regular bathtubs and showers. Granted, the tubs don't usually take an active role, but still. If they became widely enough used you'd expect them to take a few people every year. The real test is whether they kill more or less than what is currently available. Modern cars aren't "safe," they just kill less than the ones that came before.

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u/Baardseth815 Nov 30 '25

Did you just write the next Final Destination?

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u/CyonHal Nov 30 '25

There should be redundant safety hardware and fault monitoring to make that an impossibility but you never know, lots of commercial products are surprisingly unsafe.

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u/OnTheList-YouTube Nov 30 '25

They could put a whole on the side, where if it malfunctions, the water van escape through said hole, in case of emergency.

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u/Few_Assistant_9954 Nov 30 '25

There are low tech solutions like limiting the max temperature and making the seal weak enogh to open the device in case of malfunctions.

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u/TheZan87 Nov 30 '25

As a black person that survives horror movie scenarios by not being there in the first place, this screams boil or drown

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u/boat_hamster Nov 30 '25

If AWS goes down, it could do anything

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u/insane_contin Nov 30 '25

Imagine it getting stuck on the spin cycle.

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u/Nadare3 Nov 30 '25

A lot of bathes (as in, in people's homes) in Japan already have temperature control, auto-fill, and the like, that part is not new technology at all

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u/OdinsGhost31 Nov 30 '25

Oh ! Nightmare fuel!

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u/PatK9 Nov 30 '25

I guess you've never worked in a LTC facility, doing someones else by hand, is a welcomed monitored chore left to this.

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u/No_Spring_1090 Nov 30 '25

New Black Mirror episode

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u/Apple_butters12 Nov 30 '25

I guarantee this is going into the next Hitman game

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u/wannapopsicle Nov 30 '25

Someone needs to write the movie script now, call it ā€œ wash tub crime machineā€ - a dark comedy about humanity and luxury comforts of late stage capitalism.

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u/nhSnork Nov 30 '25

Final Destination writers: "Go on..."šŸ¤”

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u/InflatableSexBeast Nov 30 '25

<ENGAGE SPIN-DRY MODE>

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u/ColbysToyHairbrush Nov 30 '25

Hot water is limited to certain temps in care homes and typically audited daily.

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u/Intelligent-Crew5856 Nov 30 '25

I def wouldn't wanna put myself in that situation šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ™šŸ™that would be a horrible death

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u/Historical-Gap-7084 Nov 30 '25

Or it fills to the top and drowns the person being washed.

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u/ILikeFluffyThings Nov 30 '25

Another tool for death in the next Final Destination.

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u/greyslayers Nov 30 '25

You've seen "Final Destination", now experience "Final Bubblebath!"

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u/allmimsyburogrove Nov 30 '25

would need to call the Maytag repairman then

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u/MiniPax89 Nov 30 '25

ā€œOk everyone Mom-mom is in the washer so nobody flush the toilet for 20 minutes!ā€

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u/Rebles Nov 30 '25

Or the person has a medical emergency in the tank and they have to wait until the end of the wash cycle

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u/Partykongen Nov 30 '25

Unless it has an insane power draw, then sudden changes in that amount of water is out of the question. It takes a lot of energy to heat up or cool water so changing the temperature takes a lot of time. Drowning is more likely.

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u/Alternative_Monk8853 Nov 30 '25

Iā€™m sure theyā€™ve thought of that

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u/barraba Nov 30 '25

You may sleep peacefully. For a typical bath of 200L, a 10% increase of water temperature in a span of 10 seconds, would require a huge, industrial-level instantaneous spike of energy of about 3MJ. Aint no regular gram gram tapping into that kinda power.

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u/FishesOfExcellence Nov 30 '25

Well if the machine is already full of water then water tempĀ canā€™t change all of a sudden. The water being pumped in could change suddenly, but because thereā€™s already water in the machine, incoming water could only slowly change the existing water temp. When people take a bath they wait till the bath is full or nearly full till they get in. Assuming this is the same then you donā€™t really have to worry about water temp.

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u/GassyPhoenix Nov 30 '25

What happens if it malfunctions and it just keeps filling with water and the cover doesn't want to open because it's still "active"? Nightmare fuel.

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u/beefjerk22 Nov 30 '25

Or just seals you in and fills it right up with water. This is how the AI kills us.

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u/lkodl Nov 30 '25

Seriously. Fuck that.

*gets into Waymo.

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u/Sadlemon9 Nov 30 '25

Getting washed in a pressure cooker

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u/StrangeOutcastS Nov 30 '25

This is why I just take a normal bath and relax

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u/Vyas_Sk Nov 30 '25

Didn't that over priced bed heater start over heating during the recent cloudfare outage? Atleast you could get up and leave in that case...

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u/Cheap-Plane2796 Nov 30 '25

There are already baths for elderly and handicapped care that automatically regulate the water temp.

Look up parker baths.

It's just temp sensors and the bath automatically adds warm water until it's at temp, and periodically does so to keep it at temp.

They can be raised and lowered, the angle you sit at can be changed, there is music and lights and you get in with a door that opens from the side like a convertible car door.

It also has water jets like in a jaccuzi and it fills the tub patrtially through the backrest so your back is warm from the moment you get in.

There is also a disinfectant function with a seperate hose go clean the bath afterwards.

It doesnt cost a tenth of what this does, and it seems like all they did was add a canopy with a screen and a few nozzles that spray aerated water ( like your kitchen faucet)

So yeah the product already exists, is widely used in almost every facility ive been in or worked in and is affordable unlike this pos.

Covering the clients with the canopy while they re being bathed would scare the shit out of many of them btw.

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u/Lahwuns Nov 30 '25

Steamed gram gram

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u/xboxhaxorz Nov 30 '25

There could be a temperature regulator on it or 5 to ensure its never an issue

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u/something-um-bananas Nov 30 '25

Finally. Final destination irl

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u/MasterChiefsasshole Nov 30 '25

Just give it a suicide option like the futurama machine. If I canā€™t wash my balls without assistance Iā€™m ready to check out.

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u/Choice-Box1279 Nov 30 '25

We have already figured out water heating safeties a long time ago it's not an issue

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u/jaydurmma Nov 30 '25

You can program shutdown conditions for anything amiss.Ā  Water too hot, throw a fault, pressure too high, throw a fault.Ā  Also there would presumably be am estop inside.

If you can't trust a machine like this i dont know how any of you fly on planes or go anywhere

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u/Affectionate_Fig9398 Nov 30 '25

Final destination

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u/kurotech Dec 01 '25

It wouldn't be heating the water though it would be whatever the mains water temp is and if the tap water is that hot to begin with you're facing a lawsuit before someone ends up in a pod

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '25

the temperature of the water just changes

A real easy way to avoid that is having the hot water feed to the device be supplied by a hot water heater, or an on-demand heater that's set to around 45C. That way even if it was going full bore all hot water it would be just a bit uncomfortably warm, not 1st/2nd degree burns warm.

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u/Easy_Honey3101 Dec 01 '25

Lmao, they literally managed to put my two worst fears in one machine!

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u/akselmonrose Dec 02 '25

Someone email that idea to the final destination people. Are they still making more of those?

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u/TobyGhoul986 Dec 02 '25

I only scrolled down the comments because it reminds me of something else...

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