Posted: 12/24/2007 6:16:35 PM EDT
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Every time I turn around a new device I buy has multiple useless and breakable safety features. Take the outdoor grill I just had to lobotomize. It had the tank, hose bottle regulator and both a timer and low temp trip. The timer will run for about 5 minutes and then kills the gas. If there is enough boil over to extinguish the flame the temp will trip. Problem is if you don’t sit there beside it and eyeball the timer it will blow out and you have to relight it. and any gust of wind is enough to trip the low temp. so I spent 20 minutes giving the safety crap a try. But no good. So I just took the whole thing apart and removed/clipped off all the junk. Now it works as God intended. The other tool is my new circular saw that has a thumb switch that must be pressed in along with the trigger switch. So that got bypassed. I had an old jeep with a manual transmission that I removed the “stop before reverse shift gate” now you can shift into reverse while moving forward. Granted you never want to do this but I was always finding myself driving forward and slowing down and stopping with the clutch in and now I can put it in reverse before I come to a complete stop. The stupid guard on the end of the chain saw. Sometimes I need to cut with the tip of the saw and once I replaced the saw blade I removed the guard. Well that is all I can think of at the moment. What have you removed or bypassed that made life easier and no less safe. |
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Hmmmm, where to start: The seat belt switch that prevented the ignition from starting if the driver's belt was not buckled. I always wear my belt, but that feature drove me crazy. The clutch switch that prevented the ignition from starting unless the clutch was depressed. Sometimes, you may need to start the car in gear. Countless DRLs. Mostly car "safety" stuff that was, IMHO, retarded. |
just by having it they cover their asses. if you bypass it, then its all on you should you hack your arm off (well in theory at least) On my old truck I replaced the airbags with tv screens. does that count? and the seatbelt chimer thing- just found a fat man seat belt extender and leave that plugged in to kill the reminder. EDIT- speeling |
that just proves that some people are too stupid to own all their own fingers. 
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Sure they know that. But this way, they provide it, you disable it, and then if you get hurt, it's your fault instead of theirs. That goofy bar that shuts off your lawnmower if you don't hold it down while mowing? I put a zip-tie around it that I can slide up and keep it held down. |
i can't keep most of them working. like the locks they put in the boxes with guns. it's the cheapest junk they can get fudged together and most of the time its the first thing to break. |
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I hate the new safety feature in just about all cars with automatic windows. They either go all the way up or all the way down, and you have to fiddle with it to get it where you want it. Defeats the entire purpose of the feature. There are a lot of stupid things that increase the difficulty of easy tasks. I have seen the future, and i will surely lash out in a way that is unsafe. |
seat switch? it shorted out on my dad's mower and he could not get the damn thing to start. not to mention it's hard as hell to spray starter fluid into the air intake and sit on the seat.
forgot about that... i did that also. it's great for leaving the mower running to open a gate or move a bit of paper out of your path. |
I don't messs with the seat switch b/c I have steep places in my yard that can't always be mowed up and down. However the anti-reverse switch is the first thing I disable. I will be damned if I will turn off the blades just to back up. |
| The daylight sensor on my bug zapper. I don't give a damn about why it has one, I want it ON when its plugged in. If it catches some little flying insect merely by chance, I want it exploded with 5,000 volts. There are no freebies, there are no second chances. Fly in to the zapper and DIE. |
Which - if it weren't for the extra money I'm paying for all this crap that I'm going to remove anyway - would be just fine by me. It's the "safety" features which CAN'T be disabled that really chap my ass:
I hate the fact that the power windows stop working shortly after you remove the key from the ignition switch. Who the hell wants to fish their keys out of their pocket, find the one that fits the ignition switch, insert and turn it all the way to the "run" position, just to roll up a window during a rainstorm? This is one example where there really should be a "safety defeat" function for car owners who don't have kids. |
That's just fucking retarded. I'd go so far as to avoid any company that adds that shit to their car. The new cars that have the extra-loud/annoying beep tones for the seat belt warnings piss me off enough. |
Ah yes, bug zappers... When I was little we used to turn them on the side and drop worms in them.  ...till they broke that is. |
