Yeah that's the biggest flaw, should run for about 30 seconds after it's triggered instead of shutting off the instant it doesn't see your hands. I also hate the hand dryers that do the same, or paper towel dispensers that spit out a 4" sheet of paper towel. I get wanting to cut utility costs, but ffs nobody can get their hands clean and dry with 2 seconds of water and 4" of paper towel.
You really don't need to run the water while scrubbing your hands. Also, I wonder what possible reason California could have for not running faucets for excess periods of time...
After all of the demons have come out of you when you sat at the toilet, and then you have to summon one more demon to flush the god damn toilet… man, that sounds like too much for me; I’ll stick to normal toilets, thanks.
I don’t know, because of internet trolls maybe? lol Well, I’ve been speaking, writing and reading both english and spanish since I was like 4-5 years old, and tho I finished school like 10 years ago, I never stoped practicing or learning, and that’s pretty much the how and why. And thanks (:
I visited Japan and all the sensors worked flawlessly. Toilets, soap dispensers, sinks, paper towel dispensers, hand dryers, lights, everything. And it was everywhere, Tokyo, small towns, hotels, restaurants, subways, everywhere it was it worked perfectly.
Ren G I guess the new saying is... if it ain't broke, break it! My old Kirby vacuum cleaner is proof of that. It metal, bagged (actually better than bagless) and heavy. It doesn't have high tech sensors or sends message to your phone when the house is clean but man... it's powerful and built tough. 15 years and still out performs most modern vacuums.
It's-a me Megatron. Ey my dad has this big heavy bagged vacuum that my GRANDMA used. It's the best vacuum cleaner I've ever used and it isn't fancy in the slightest. It doesn't need to be fancy to work right.
@@marshmallowmountains4636 Cool! Those things will last a life time. BTW what model is it? Reason I ask is because the new one (well anyone made after 1990) has a nice feature called test-drive that let's you push it with a single finger.
I don't need a sensor, I prefer a manual flush also. Just because a "small" percentage of people forgot to flush after themselves doesn't mean I should have to deal with faulty auto flushing monsters blasting my ass with poo water.
I HATE them sooooo much thay would always flush on me when i was little and i have a irrational fear of going into public bathroom and I'm not kidding.
Kagamine Lenka As someone that's worked many jobs cleaning these toilets I can tell you that having a fear of the lack of hygiene in public restrooms and humanity in general is absolutely not irrational. Human beings are completely and utterly repulsive and our immune systems are not equipped to constantly battle diseases from the thousands of strangers we come into contact with every day. That's why you get so sick when you get on a plane or visit another country. We are supposed to live in tight knit communities where we all share similar microbiomes. We are not meant to live in crowded cities with people from foreign lands with foreign diseases we can't even pronounce.
The sensor's always pointed so that to activate it you have to take you hands out of the water. So then it stops the water. Que the awkward back and forth trying to get the soap off your hands.
I get it they are annoying thats why we should just have normal sinks again and not the ones that are a button and on a timer or the one has to be twisted to work.
In the mall where I live they have sensors to flush but they also have a button you can push if the toilet doesn't flush automatically. Solves those problems pretty good... As for the sink and paper towel... They're annoying at best...
The best ones have a truly mechanical button for manual flushing. That way, even if the batteries in the sensor unit die (or-if it’s hardwired-the power goes out) then you can still flush the toilet-no matter what.
I deal with these things almost daily. I do facilities maintenance, and often get calls about "bad" sensors, and usually we either recalibrate the sensor, sometimes with a magnet, but most often, just replace the whole valve. I'm starting to notice the automatic valves usually gum up and go bad more often than manual valves as well. I've replaced one manual flush valve, and even that was just the handle assembly due to a crumbled spring, in the past 2 months versus about 5 automatic valves. I notice Toto valves fail much more often than Zurn or Sloan valves, but that may be just because they've been there longer. Anyway, automatic flush valves suck. Getting a toilet water enema halfway through releasing a giant dook is never fun.
I mean why should it be more hygienic? I mean touching the handle to flush, should be no issue, because you wash your hands. So the point where you don't want bacteria on your hands, is after washing your hands. So the paper towels and the door should be able to operate without using your hands. With the paper, its good when the next pice of paper is coming out without you needing to grab into the hole. This is usually done with a folding technique and not with electric motors. The door is a big thing. The Handle could be shaped for your elbow, can be pushed to be opend or have a handle that you operate with your foot. Such handles exist and gets rarely used, like in a hospital. The benefit is that a doctor or a nurse can enter the room, while sterilizing their hands, or when you have stuff in your hands.
You probably still have schmutz on your hands after you wash them. The less filth you touch overall, the better. You are not really clean until you take a half hour shower with water so hot that your sweat pushes soil out of your pores and then you dry with a sanitized towel.
Unless the Toilett is very dirty, it should still be better than other things you use. How often do you clean your phone, your backpack, your handbag (for the women's), your keys, your purse and so on? Everyone is freaking out about toilets but doesn't care about daily use items and the way of your hands before and after you touched these items. You should clean your hands regularly and it's the best, to do this, after using the bathroom and to because of getting rid of the poop germs. Imagine this: you are in a store and in infornt of the line is a homeless guy, paying his stuff with all his coins. You get some of these coins and doesn't care about it. You probably didn't noticed the homeless guy, because you was checking social media on your phone. After that, you touch your phone, your face and so on. You still alive. Sure it makes no sense to touch a door knob, to get all germs on your hands again, that you get rid about 10 secs ago. Its like after a shower, you put your sweaty clothes on, that you wear before the shower. You take fresh clothes, to stay clean as long as possible. What I think is funny that people are disgusted by someone not washing their hands, after taking a piss. I mean the d from the guy is probably cleaner than the door knob and your phone. I mean unless you piss on your hands, everything should be fine.
Yes, not to mention that self-flushing toilets can send excrement shooting at your completely uncovered loins, which is pretty dangerous if any gets in your urinary tract. At least hands don't have an entry way (and as you say, they should be clean before they do touch an entry way).
Okay so you walk into a public bathroom Then into a stall Then you do your business or whatever Your hands are now DIRTY To CLEAN your hands you must now go back to the sink which is outside the stall This means your hands are dirty while pressing whichever button to flush and while opening the door
I don't know about other countries, but often in the UK, you'll find toilet flushing sensors that work only at a few centimetres' range so you have to put your hand right in front of them, which is both the improved hygiene of a sensor flush and no flushes when you don't expect it, though the kind with phantom flushes also exists. Though urinals seem to be the exception, never have issues with the sensors on them
Me: **sets up toilet seat cover and gets ready to sit down** Toilet: **flushes and pulls the seat cover with it** Also me: "Ah, sh1t, here we go again."
Yeah I remembered when I go to a mall when the sensors where just a new tech.. and it was so annoying. I would just get ready to remove my pants and it flushes itself like 3 times. Even when I am using it it flushes randomly.😑 Then when Im done and actually want it to flush it wouldn't flush.. It was a bit frustrating at that time.. lol. Glad to see it getting better though. Ps: glad to know that the random flush are actually pre-programmed. Because it is creepy when you are in a gloomy restroom alone and the toilet next to you just flushed when you knew that nobody was there.. 😅 lol!
I've always hated sensor toilets since I was a toddler. Since 2013 I've learned that you can cover the sensor to stop it from flushing while your doing your private business on the toilet.
Imagine if your hiding in the bathroom, with these toilets, from a shooter, stabber, or any sort of criminal. You’re doing so well to keep quiet as he/she just entered the bathroom but you move slightly, the sensor catches that and it flushes. The criminal finds you with ease, kicks the stall door open, and kills you (or holds you hostage) You wouldn’t have this issue with manual toilets. These just increase your chances of being caught. (I know they would probably check the stalls anyway but you never know)
Something I’ve learned from my many experiences with auto-flushers is that-at least for Sloan sensors-the seemingly random flushes while you’re sitting on the toilet are actually intentional. Most Sloan sensors (the oval-shaped ones especially) actually have timers inside them that automatically trigger a flush after a certain amount of time, EVEN if you’re still sitting or standing in front of it. Next time you encounter one, watch the indicator light as you approach. It should start flashing slowly, then progressively get faster as you continue to sit or stand in front of it. And eventually, it will stop flashing altogether, followed immediately by a flush. Then the process repeats itself over and over again, until you get out of range. As for Zurn sensors, they don’t have the same timer system, which makes them the best by far. Zurn’s oval-shaped sensors are actually really cool, in that they show a solid red light while you’re in front of them, and then a green one when you walk away and it flushes. Kind of like a traffic light for the flush valve, if you will! Red means wait, green means go ahead and flush. I had those particular sensors in one of the schools I went to as a kid, and they were the best!
When I was younger I thought that if you wasn’t a safe enough distance away that you may be somehow flushed and somehow drown or go into the sewage system and never to be found again. So when I would flush a manual toilet I would run to the corner farthest away from the stall and wait for it to finish or rush out the stall. However when automatic started coming out I would be scared as it always auto flush on me (since I was small) however i would cover it with a piece of Toliet paper. However when they switched from sensors being on the outside to inside the wall I would have one hand on the sensor with a Piece or TP and try to it down at the same time. This worked 25% as I would either Pee on my self, fall, or be too scared to use the restroom and stand their for a long time. Which being 6-12 made me have my mother come with me a lot more than necessary. Thank god I grown out of that stage but just a small funny story
Most automatic toilets I've seen have a little button on them to manually flush. Some don't though, and it's incredibly annoying especially when the sensor isn't working.
in my old school the sink sensors werent even in the trajectory of your hands, it was above them on a ledge and you had to take your hands in and out of the water to keep making it work.
So basically, all these optical sensors just plain suck. Pull-down paper towel despensers and sink knobs win again. Just grab the paper, yank it out, use it to not get your pee hands all over the sink knobs, wash your hands, dry, repeat to turn off the sink.
William Shreckengost from what I can tell it’s the cheap ones that suck because I’ve never had a problem but I read a comment about someone who rarely ever had problems until one time from which he concluded the sensor was an issue So improper cleaning or cheap manufacturing
0:07 When the right happens, there’s usually a button you can press. It’s called the “stop flopping about like a panicked beached whale and actually look around you” button. It’s sometimes a lever instead of a button. Edit: It turns out that they had a solution at the end of the video. I’m not really sure why it still involves the sensors, though. Pushing a button is probably easier than sticking a piece of toilet paper to a sensor, and then taking it off afterwards.
Yeah but on the toilets I find there is a button that you can press in case the sensor doesn't work, or, if it flushes too soon, you can flush again by hitting the button.
Once, after using the loo, I went to get soap from an automatic dispenser. Wouldn’t work. Keep in mind there was another lady beside me, so I felt embarrassed. Decided ‘screw it, I’ll just use only water.’ The tap wouldn’t work. Left the bathroom filthy and frustrated.
all of the sensors that I have come across are ones where you have to wave your hand in front of the sensor to activate the flush (there is actually a sign next to it saying to do that)
The real reason for their annoyance is that they are required to work with battery so it puts power limitation on the device. Low power budget means that sensor is 99% of the time in a sleep mode. This makes for a glitchy detection.
Who cares enough to put paper towel on top of a sensor and then remove it afterwards, besides won't that waste paper? Water can atleast be filtered and reused.
The only sensors that bother me are the sink sensors because I have to wash my hands at such a specific spot, but that’s mainly because my schools has cheap sensor sinks
One would assume that having toilet sensors would be convenient, save water and be hygienic. Its the total opposite and this video tells you just that. It doesnt work properly half the time, it wastes water and rather you have to go out of your way to make the toilet flush. Whats the point? This is what happens when we overdo technology for our convenience...
When it comes to those faucets, I cup my hands, start near the basin, and raise it slowly up towards the top of the faucet till water comes out. If nothing comes out, its a bad sensor.
I think there should be a longer delay between when it senses you leave and it flushes. 4-7 seconds is to short you can be bender over to wipe your ass and it just flushes. If the delay was 45-60 seconds you wouldnt have this problem.
I didn't know urinals supported censorship lol. Jk sensors work better with urinals becase when you use them it's just a simple walk up to and then walk away unlike in a stall where you change body and clothing positions a lot more and the sensor is lower as well
You have to get up and walk away from the toilet exactly the right way and at the right speed in order for it to work. I wish they would put a manual flush on the toilet to use when the sensor didn't work right.
Sinks with sensors don't mix with high visibility clothes. Every time I go to a bathroom during a lunch break all the sinks react to me as I walk past them 😂
The toilet sensors at my school suck and they’re only a couple years old!!! It takes forever for them to flush especially when you cover it with toilet paper.
when i broke my wrist, i got a temporary cast for my arm i went to the hospital to get my actual cast wrap and i was waiting with my sister. i had to use the bathroom so i went and while i was pissing, i wasnt aware that it was a sensor so it flushed by itself out of the blue and scared the shit out of me that i genuinely flicked my arm and cracked my wrist inside the temp cast :(
That’s interesting. We are full in holland from these and I didn’t know how to do use it. Ok I know now what I’m gonna do next time I’ll go to Schiphol:)
Apple needs to get into this space and put these companies out of business. You also cannot do courtesy flushes. I prefer an immediate flush when the poop hits the water.
Because they give you 5 milliseconds to wash your hands
Wholesome Lad I notice this in California
Yeah that's the biggest flaw, should run for about 30 seconds after it's triggered instead of shutting off the instant it doesn't see your hands. I also hate the hand dryers that do the same, or paper towel dispensers that spit out a 4" sheet of paper towel. I get wanting to cut utility costs, but ffs nobody can get their hands clean and dry with 2 seconds of water and 4" of paper towel.
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Oh don't exaggerate. You know damn right that it gives you a whole 10 milliseconds to wash your hands.
You really don't need to run the water while scrubbing your hands. Also, I wonder what possible reason California could have for not running faucets for excess periods of time...
When I was younger I thought they were cameras and the flush was queued by a guy watching through it
That would actually make great flushing toilet idea ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
Scrublord lmaoo
cool, now I'm even more paranoid
Man, I’ve been thinking that for ages now...
Scrublord me too XD
When you have to summon a demon just to flush the toilet.
After all of the demons have come out of you when you sat at the toilet, and then you have to summon one more demon to flush the god damn toilet… man, that sounds like too much for me; I’ll stick to normal toilets, thanks.
Rojo Röhr Where did you learn English grammar? It's impeccable.
lol
You’re trolling me, right?!
Rojo Röhr What? No, why?
I don’t know, because of internet trolls maybe?
lol
Well, I’ve been speaking, writing and reading both english and spanish since I was like 4-5 years old, and tho I finished school like 10 years ago, I never stoped practicing or learning, and that’s pretty much the how and why.
And thanks (:
*Anyone else flush the toilet with their foot?*
_Bob McCoy I thought I was the only one!
Me
So I dont have to wash my hands 😂
Litho that's not how it works, you still need to wash your hands 🤢🤢
*with my hand*
Better solution: add a sensor to the door lock. Every time it unlocks flush the toilet
Hey that's an idea
Hey let's flush every 5 seconds!
BINGO. Something sensor linked to the door is exactly what I was thinking as well.
You smart
On the right track but it should be a physical switch to prevent accidental activation
Yeah, you have a problem because you sit at the very edge of the bowl
Omg I’m within an hour of you comment
Justin Y. Come On Police! The victim (of BEING EVERYWHERE ON UA-cam) is here. Arrest this ninja! 🚨
i found ya
Random ? Oliver knight You're lost, you're looking for Truecel, this is UA-cam.
Justin Y. Do you not think it's an inherent design flaw that the sensor can't tell that?
I visited Japan and all the sensors worked flawlessly. Toilets, soap dispensers, sinks, paper towel dispensers, hand dryers, lights, everything. And it was everywhere, Tokyo, small towns, hotels, restaurants, subways, everywhere it was it worked perfectly.
I am EXTREMELY afraid of automatic toulets because I am afraid of it flushing on me. And it happened a few time before.
Can we just go back to switches and buttons please thanks
Ren G
I guess the new saying is... if it ain't broke, break it!
My old Kirby vacuum cleaner is proof of that. It metal, bagged (actually better than bagless) and heavy. It doesn't have high tech sensors or sends message to your phone when the house is clean but man... it's powerful and built tough. 15 years and still out performs most modern vacuums.
It's-a me Megatron.
Ey my dad has this big heavy bagged vacuum that my GRANDMA used. It's the best vacuum cleaner I've ever used and it isn't fancy in the slightest. It doesn't need to be fancy to work right.
@@marshmallowmountains4636
Cool! Those things will last a life time. BTW what model is it? Reason I ask is because the new one (well anyone made after 1990) has a nice feature called test-drive that let's you push it with a single finger.
No! EVERY thing has to be smart!
Usually I am never happy when a manual toilet gets replaced with an automatic one!
I hate the sink ones, put hand under nothing happends, pull hand out, it starts, put hand back under it stops 😤
AND when it does work the flow is so gentile you could rinse your hands faster if you were spitting on them.
You: Bends over to wipe butt
Toilet Sensor: YOU JUST ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD
Always been using the manual type & quite happy with that. 👍
Overwritten Protocol right! If it ain't broke, dont fix it!
The Reckless Recluse The idea is that with these sensors you don't need to touch all these dirty things in the public toilets
Максим Цыба those sensors are not entuative enough so they cause problems
I don't need a sensor, I prefer a manual flush also. Just because a "small" percentage of people forgot to flush after themselves doesn't mean I should have to deal with faulty auto flushing monsters blasting my ass with poo water.
I agree, and I have like 10 comments in this video already.
When I was a kid and younger, Toilet Sensor scared the heck out of me at school! At least I treat toilet sensors better not to annoy me again.
Same here and it still scares the poo out of me
I HATE them sooooo much thay would always flush on me when i was little and i have a irrational fear of going into public bathroom and I'm not kidding.
I have a fear of going to public bathrooms too.
i'd hold back my pee for literally a whole day or more until i can pee in a personal bathroom
Kagamine Lenka What why
Devito
irrational paranoia of stranger's gross fluid residues.
🙄
Pathetic.
Kagamine Lenka As someone that's worked many jobs cleaning these toilets I can tell you that having a fear of the lack of hygiene in public restrooms and humanity in general is absolutely not irrational. Human beings are completely and utterly repulsive and our immune systems are not equipped to constantly battle diseases from the thousands of strangers we come into contact with every day. That's why you get so sick when you get on a plane or visit another country. We are supposed to live in tight knit communities where we all share similar microbiomes. We are not meant to live in crowded cities with people from foreign lands with foreign diseases we can't even pronounce.
woow this is actually really helpful i always hated auto flushing toilets.
I hate the faucets more!
The sensor's always pointed so that to activate it you have to take you hands out of the water. So then it stops the water. Que the awkward back and forth trying to get the soap off your hands.
I get it they are annoying thats why we should just have normal sinks again and not the ones that are a button and on a timer or the one has to be twisted to work.
Automatic toilets are my worst fear
Then you are going to be scared to death 💀 of robot 🤖 toilets 🚽 from Japan.
Great Value Bleach oof im half Japanese and I go to Japan all the time but I don’t mind the Japanese ones cos there quieter
I hate those so much. Don't be it's a surprised if you find these in public places!
Literally same!
Same
In the mall where I live they have sensors to flush but they also have a button you can push if the toilet doesn't flush automatically. Solves those problems pretty good... As for the sink and paper towel... They're annoying at best...
The best ones have a truly mechanical button for manual flushing. That way, even if the batteries in the sensor unit die (or-if it’s hardwired-the power goes out) then you can still flush the toilet-no matter what.
0:09 Is the guy on the right doing a satanic ritual?
Germs JB Thanks mate 😀
Nah he is strip dancing
Holyshit that was funny shit
I deal with these things almost daily. I do facilities maintenance, and often get calls about "bad" sensors, and usually we either recalibrate the sensor, sometimes with a magnet, but most often, just replace the whole valve. I'm starting to notice the automatic valves usually gum up and go bad more often than manual valves as well. I've replaced one manual flush valve, and even that was just the handle assembly due to a crumbled spring, in the past 2 months versus about 5 automatic valves. I notice Toto valves fail much more often than Zurn or Sloan valves, but that may be just because they've been there longer. Anyway, automatic flush valves suck. Getting a toilet water enema halfway through releasing a giant dook is never fun.
I mean why should it be more hygienic? I mean touching the handle to flush, should be no issue, because you wash your hands. So the point where you don't want bacteria on your hands, is after washing your hands. So the paper towels and the door should be able to operate without using your hands. With the paper, its good when the next pice of paper is coming out without you needing to grab into the hole. This is usually done with a folding technique and not with electric motors. The door is a big thing. The Handle could be shaped for your elbow, can be pushed to be opend or have a handle that you operate with your foot. Such handles exist and gets rarely used, like in a hospital. The benefit is that a doctor or a nurse can enter the room, while sterilizing their hands, or when you have stuff in your hands.
This so much this.
You probably still have schmutz on your hands after you wash them. The less filth you touch overall, the better. You are not really clean until you take a half hour shower with water so hot that your sweat pushes soil out of your pores and then you dry with a sanitized towel.
Unless the Toilett is very dirty, it should still be better than other things you use. How often do you clean your phone, your backpack, your handbag (for the women's), your keys, your purse and so on? Everyone is freaking out about toilets but doesn't care about daily use items and the way of your hands before and after you touched these items.
You should clean your hands regularly and it's the best, to do this, after using the bathroom and to because of getting rid of the poop germs. Imagine this: you are in a store and in infornt of the line is a homeless guy, paying his stuff with all his coins. You get some of these coins and doesn't care about it. You probably didn't noticed the homeless guy, because you was checking social media on your phone. After that, you touch your phone, your face and so on. You still alive.
Sure it makes no sense to touch a door knob, to get all germs on your hands again, that you get rid about 10 secs ago. Its like after a shower, you put your sweaty clothes on, that you wear before the shower. You take fresh clothes, to stay clean as long as possible.
What I think is funny that people are disgusted by someone not washing their hands, after taking a piss. I mean the d from the guy is probably cleaner than the door knob and your phone. I mean unless you piss on your hands, everything should be fine.
Yes, not to mention that self-flushing toilets can send excrement shooting at your completely uncovered loins, which is pretty dangerous if any gets in your urinary tract. At least hands don't have an entry way (and as you say, they should be clean before they do touch an entry way).
Okay so you walk into a public bathroom
Then into a stall
Then you do your business or whatever
Your hands are now DIRTY
To CLEAN your hands you must now go back to the sink which is outside the stall
This means your hands are dirty while pressing whichever button to flush and while opening the door
Bro you just saved my life with that advice, can't believe I never thought of putting a piece of toilet paper over the sensor lol
i've been thought about that lol
Next the toilet will tell you that you pissed on the floor.😂😂😂
In Japan, the toilet is in the floor.
I've never had a problem with those sensors...
Yum Yum Milkshake lucky
Yum Yum Milkshake Same.
LucasNewland007 exactly
Same
Yum Yum Milkshake same it's useful for not getting germs on your hands
1:06 They should go the extra mile with a wiping animation
I don't know about other countries, but often in the UK, you'll find toilet flushing sensors that work only at a few centimetres' range so you have to put your hand right in front of them, which is both the improved hygiene of a sensor flush and no flushes when you don't expect it, though the kind with phantom flushes also exists. Though urinals seem to be the exception, never have issues with the sensors on them
Me: **sets up toilet seat cover and gets ready to sit down**
Toilet: **flushes and pulls the seat cover with it**
Also me: "Ah, sh1t, here we go again."
I get the feeling that the entire video was preparing us for that pun in the end.
Yeah I remembered when I go to a mall when the sensors where just a new tech.. and it was so annoying. I would just get ready to remove my pants and it flushes itself like 3 times. Even when I am using it it flushes randomly.😑 Then when Im done and actually want it to flush it wouldn't flush.. It was a bit frustrating at that time.. lol. Glad to see it getting better though.
Ps: glad to know that the random flush are actually pre-programmed. Because it is creepy when you are in a gloomy restroom alone and the toilet next to you just flushed when you knew that nobody was there.. 😅 lol!
Wall-mounted toilet sensors:
I am four parallel universes ahead of you
I've always hated sensor toilets since I was a toddler. Since 2013 I've learned that you can cover the sensor to stop it from flushing while your doing your private business on the toilet.
Imagine if your hiding in the bathroom, with these toilets, from a shooter, stabber, or any sort of criminal. You’re doing so well to keep quiet as he/she just entered the bathroom but you move slightly, the sensor catches that and it flushes. The criminal finds you with ease, kicks the stall door open, and kills you (or holds you hostage)
You wouldn’t have this issue with manual toilets. These just increase your chances of being caught.
(I know they would probably check the stalls anyway but you never know)
Something I’ve learned from my many experiences with auto-flushers is that-at least for Sloan sensors-the seemingly random flushes while you’re sitting on the toilet are actually intentional. Most Sloan sensors (the oval-shaped ones especially) actually have timers inside them that automatically trigger a flush after a certain amount of time, EVEN if you’re still sitting or standing in front of it. Next time you encounter one, watch the indicator light as you approach. It should start flashing slowly, then progressively get faster as you continue to sit or stand in front of it. And eventually, it will stop flashing altogether, followed immediately by a flush. Then the process repeats itself over and over again, until you get out of range. As for Zurn sensors, they don’t have the same timer system, which makes them the best by far. Zurn’s oval-shaped sensors are actually really cool, in that they show a solid red light while you’re in front of them, and then a green one when you walk away and it flushes. Kind of like a traffic light for the flush valve, if you will! Red means wait, green means go ahead and flush. I had those particular sensors in one of the schools I went to as a kid, and they were the best!
I always twerk for the toilet gram😣
I hate those that flush when you are still sitting. I like the ones where when you leave the stall, it flushes
When I was younger I thought that if you wasn’t a safe enough distance away that you may be somehow flushed and somehow drown or go into the sewage system and never to be found again. So when I would flush a manual toilet I would run to the corner farthest away from the stall and wait for it to finish or rush out the stall.
However when automatic started coming out I would be scared as it always auto flush on me (since I was small) however i would cover it with a piece of Toliet paper. However when they switched from sensors being on the outside to inside the wall I would have one hand on the sensor with a Piece or TP and try to it down at the same time. This worked 25% as I would either Pee on my self, fall, or be too scared to use the restroom and stand their for a long time. Which being 6-12 made me have my mother come with me a lot more than necessary.
Thank god I grown out of that stage but just a small funny story
It's not sensor problem.. They're just taking revenge on you 😂
I'm taking a sht while watching this. My toilet is old school.
I’ve never had trouble with the toilets and urinals. My trouble as always been with sinks and towel dispensers
Tech Insider is officially running out of ideas
OrderedFiber43 they say the same thing about BuzzFeed every day. Please don't start that trend on Tech Insider too. 🙄
The Reckless Recluse Get tf off my comment feed then 😴
OrderedFiber43 You just did, lol.
Power StaticX Infinity What do you mean...?
Mad Rooster I'm the funniest person in the DR. Come at me bro lol
Almost all automatic towel dispensers and faucets I encountered have sensors that work like a champ. Automatic toilets are a hit and miss.
Most automatic toilets I've seen have a little button on them to manually flush. Some don't though, and it's incredibly annoying especially when the sensor isn't working.
"and it's incredibly annoying especially -when the sensor isn't working- " always. Because the sensor never works.
Literally 5 minutes before i watched this i went to a public toilet and half of the sensors didnt work
in my old school the sink sensors werent even in the trajectory of your hands, it was above them on a ledge and you had to take your hands in and out of the water to keep making it work.
I can relate since that restroom sensors are a pet peeve to me as well.
The auto-sensors can also have a button too.
So basically, all these optical sensors just plain suck. Pull-down paper towel despensers and sink knobs win again. Just grab the paper, yank it out, use it to not get your pee hands all over the sink knobs, wash your hands, dry, repeat to turn off the sink.
William Shreckengost from what I can tell it’s the cheap ones that suck because I’ve never had a problem but I read a comment about someone who rarely ever had problems until one time from which he concluded the sensor was an issue
So improper cleaning or cheap manufacturing
0:07 When the right happens, there’s usually a button you can press.
It’s called the “stop flopping about like a panicked beached whale and actually look around you” button. It’s sometimes a lever instead of a button.
Edit: It turns out that they had a solution at the end of the video.
I’m not really sure why it still involves the sensors, though.
Pushing a button is probably easier than sticking a piece of toilet paper to a sensor, and then taking it off afterwards.
At my college I just put tape over the sensor until I'm done. Same thing for the sink. That both keeps the toilet from flushing and the water running.
Yeah but on the toilets I find there is a button that you can press in case the sensor doesn't work, or, if it flushes too soon, you can flush again by hitting the button.
flushing toilets with my foot helped me learn karate
Once, after using the loo, I went to get soap from an automatic dispenser. Wouldn’t work. Keep in mind there was another lady beside me, so I felt embarrassed. Decided ‘screw it, I’ll just use only water.’ The tap wouldn’t work. Left the bathroom filthy and frustrated.
I’ve always hated bathroom sensors
Personally, I really don’t have issues with automatic sensors, but when I do, it’s 99.99% of the time on toilets.
all of the sensors that I have come across are ones where you have to wave your hand in front of the sensor to activate the flush (there is actually a sign next to it saying to do that)
The real reason for their annoyance is that they are required to work with battery so it puts power limitation on the device. Low power budget means that sensor is 99% of the time in a sleep mode. This makes for a glitchy detection.
Who cares enough to put paper towel on top of a sensor and then remove it afterwards, besides won't that waste paper? Water can atleast be filtered and reused.
Ihatequests Dev better with toilet papers, that’s what I usually do
The only sensors that bother me are the sink sensors because I have to wash my hands at such a specific spot, but that’s mainly because my schools has cheap sensor sinks
I can't believe I just watched that whole video...
Damn, we don't have sensors like that in the UK, and im glad we don't
? The hell cave you been living in? They're all over the place. And none of work well.
Jack Evans they really aren't, I've seen the ones you swipe over to flush when you want but not automatic flushes
There’s three sensors on toilet at Sam’s Club and I am still scared to use the toilet!
At my Walmart there used to be manual toilets then it got renovated and got replaced with automatic toilets.
The sensors at my work always have perfect timing. Maybe some places just use cheap ones
Probably yours has Sloan sensor valves
I thought that was a camera
Or, if the sensor does not work, how about you put in a manual overdrive so you can flush it if the normal sensor doesn't work?
That's why poop in the woods
One would assume that having toilet sensors would be convenient, save water and be hygienic. Its the total opposite and this video tells you just that. It doesnt work properly half the time, it wastes water and rather you have to go out of your way to make the toilet flush. Whats the point? This is what happens when we overdo technology for our convenience...
I just always thought I was partly invisible
When it comes to those faucets, I cup my hands, start near the basin, and raise it slowly up towards the top of the faucet till water comes out.
If nothing comes out, its a bad sensor.
UA-cam knows my interests so well
What about the hand dryers that stay on even after you moved your hands away from them?
I think there should be a longer delay between when it senses you leave and it flushes. 4-7 seconds is to short you can be bender over to wipe your ass and it just flushes. If the delay was 45-60 seconds you wouldnt have this problem.
WTF IS WRONG WITH ONE BUTTON JESUS.
Why does this guy sound so serious and angry
He's too hot for this world, the Russell Crowe turned CEO handsome devil
He's not angry. He's just not using that fake happy tone that you're used to hearing in every video.
Cause he’s trying to poop but it keeps flushing
He’s using “that one presenter voice”.
I never had a problem with em. I love it
Most urinal censors work pretty well usually
I didn't know urinals supported censorship lol. Jk sensors work better with urinals becase when you use them it's just a simple walk up to and then walk away unlike in a stall where you change body and clothing positions a lot more and the sensor is lower as well
Normal toilets:Floshololoooo Automatic toilets:FLAWSHAWAWAAOAOAOAOAUAUAOEUAOEU
Automatic toilets turn into surprise bidets
0:01 I have never been or even heard of that situation.
Answer: Cause when u poop the poo water comes back up when it auto flush
Do a "Why singapore's airport is the best in the world" video
Xyber YT you can’t have him lie to UA-cam viewers.
Great Value Bleach it accually is the best in the world
toilet stops working, *breaks into dance* 0:09
What if you replaced them with proximity sensors that use pinging like sonar
Great animation!
You have to get up and walk away from the toilet exactly the right way and at the right speed in order for it to work. I wish they would put a manual flush on the toilet to use when the sensor didn't work right.
Lol they do. It’s the little black button right next to the sensor. Pretty standard from what I’ve seen
most of the sensors that I have come across are ones where you have to wave your hand in front of them to activate them
Every time I wipe my ass at the Fresno state university the toilet flushes and I think it’s the most annoying thing ever.
This always happens with the sink sensor for me.
Sinks with sensors don't mix with high visibility clothes. Every time I go to a bathroom during a lunch break all the sinks react to me as I walk past them 😂
But we’re ready for self-driving cars.
Because they use different sensors
I feel like those sensors use neutrinos to detect your presence.
That pressure when you're trying to get a paper towel and it's not coming out then realize someone is waiting on you
What about the toilet handles that have mad kickback when you flush?
Idk about yall but I really appreciate this video
I have good experiences with it.
And the water problem is a problem because 50% of the people don’t flush.
Get advice from Japan- they slayin the bathroom game
1:30 this would explain why some people think certain sensors are “racist”
The toilet sensors at my school suck and they’re only a couple years old!!! It takes forever for them to flush especially when you cover it with toilet paper.
I don't really have issues with toilets. But oh my god I hate the sink sensors in Walmart bathrooms, that shit is sooo annoying
when i broke my wrist, i got a temporary cast for my arm
i went to the hospital to get my actual cast wrap and
i was waiting with my sister. i had to use the bathroom
so i went and while i was pissing, i wasnt aware that it was a sensor
so it flushed by itself out of the blue and scared the shit out of me
that i genuinely flicked my arm and cracked my wrist inside the temp cast :(
That’s interesting. We are full in holland from these and I didn’t know how to do use it. Ok I know now what I’m gonna do next time I’ll go to Schiphol:)
Apple needs to get into this space and put these companies out of business. You also cannot do courtesy flushes. I prefer an immediate flush when the poop hits the water.