Or there might be a future leader who is a Darth Vader wannabe and creates a system where everyone wears a self-tightening tie and he can gesture at anyone who annoys him to choke them until he stops gesturing.
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FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 2 months agoThe liability for a product that tightens around a neck would make it an untouchable concept for businesses. I could imagine a dystopian future where some big brand like Dickies selling it and when it kills people they claim the fine print very clearly disallows any shirts except for patented self-tying tie constrained collar shirts.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 2 months ago
it shouldnt be TOO hard to make it safe: just add a lanyard style breakaway at the back of the next. light tug pops the tie off.
You could make it simply self tighten, saving you one arm movement.
Abnorc@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I think the villain in Law Abiding Citizen killed somebody using a trap tie of some sort.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not a complicated engineering problem to solve though. A weak enough motor wont be able to strangle anything even if its controlling software is hacked and turned to 11.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
For sure, but a large many modern problems which result in fatalities daily are not hard engineering problems to solve.
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yea good thing we didn’t follow through lol
GetKebab@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Haaaaaagh, that’s fuckin excellent. Now Invision a dystopian future where hackers assassinate a corrupt politician by strangulation. Fuck yeah dystopian future.