Poor design thread

[TIB]

Step one - don't abuse your cables. 

 

Step two - take the spring from a ballpoint, wrap it round the cable, and push it up to the connector. Job done.

 

 great advice and even if they do it 90% will still use the cable to pull out the connector   

[droo]

 great advice and even if they do it 90% will still use the cable to pull out the connector   

 

THis is half user error and half design fail - if the designer can foresee how the product will be (mis)used, they should design around this.

 

But they sell more cables the way they're doing it now, so no reason to change...

[The Ouzo]

Step one - don't abuse your cables. 

 

Step two - take the spring from a ballpoint, wrap it round the cable, and push it up to the connector. Job done.

that applies to OEM cables, the non OEM ones the contacts on the connector wear out before the cable gets a chance to get damaged

[droo]

that applies to OEM cables, the non OEM ones the contacts on the connector wear out before the cable gets a chance to get damaged

 

Buy cheap, buy twice...

[Long Wheel Base]

Office Printers.......Well the one we have at least. Well not the printers fault really. Our zerox only has one tray for paper but we need to print on a few different colours. White is obviously the main colour so we have an unwritten rule that the tray be filled with white and if you need to print in pink, blue, green or yellow you just put the required amount in(usually only 1 or 2 pages and sometimes up to 4 copies) and once you done it's just white again. I just printed 10 pages from an aircraft manual and the first 4 pages are pink!!!!!!!!!!!! so now I must re print just the first 4 pages. They should make the tray clear so we can see when someone has just grabbed a stack of coloured paper and put it in the tray when they only need 2 pages.

Luckily if I select a few options on the touchscreen I can see who the last few people to print were, Just k@kked my supervisor out for being lazy!!!!

[Chingy182]

People's interpretation of how a traffic circle works.

 

Or how 2 consecutive robots in Cape Town CBD 50m apart are not in-Timberlake

[NGM]

People's interpretation of how a traffic circle works.

It's like a 4 way stop right? 

[Chingy182]

It's like a 4 way stop right? 

Kind of like a 4 way stop, except that if 1 car has entered into the circle then no other cars are allowed to enter until the first car has made his exit.

[Hairy]

Kind of like a 4 way stop, except that if 1 car has entered into the circle then no other cars are allowed to enter until the first car has made his exit.

strange ... where I stay I thought, based on observation, was the aim of the game was to try to cut off and push infront of the cars coming at you....but what do I know

[Stretch]

It's like a 4 way stop right?

Fun fact.. Here in Ireland they don't have 4 way stops so if a Traffic light goes off then the drivers in the main road treat it as not having a light and just drive through without slowing down

[Stretch]

 

 

Or how 2 consecutive robots in Cape Town CBD 50m apart are not in-Timberlake

So that is when one is Justin front of the other?

[Long Wheel Base]

People's interpretation of how a traffic circle works.

 

Or how 2 consecutive robots in Cape Town CBD 50m apart are not in-Timberlake

When its more than one lane inside the circle it gets dangerous. Amount of accidents I have seen where someone exits the circle from the inside lane when the person in the outside lane is not exiting.

[bertusras]

So that is when one is Justin front of the other?

 

And not in sync.

[cfcjim]

Roundabouts are an excellent piece of traffic management design as long as EVERYONE knows how to use them.

 

See Swindon in the UK.

 

[Eldron]

When its more than one lane inside the circle it gets dangerous. Amount of accidents I have seen where someone exits the circle from the inside lane when the person in the outside lane is not exiting.

 

My favourite is the UK "two lanes in and 1 lane out" style roundabout. They compound the problem by putting the arrows on the tar which is impossible to see in traffic and/or gets worn away by tyres.

[Chingy182]

When its more than one lane inside the circle it gets dangerous. Amount of accidents I have seen where someone exits the circle from the inside lane when the person in the outside lane is not exiting.

My biggest issue with people misusing a traffic circle is by NOT putting on their indicators