Have You Seen the Metallic Pod in SF? It's a New Self-Cleaning Public Toilet
A new space-aged looking pod is the newest feature on San Francisco’s Embarcadero. But it’s not a new art piece, it’s a new self-cleaning public toilet. Sergio Quintana reports.
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Does it self clean heroin needles ?
I bet my money someone going to live in there lol 😂
@stephannelson8780
Жыл бұрын
It automatically opens after 30 mins
@TheMbeagan
Ай бұрын
@@stephannelson8780so, air conditioning
Can they withstand homeless?
@ffs6158
Жыл бұрын
Yes, they're pretty cool for gross liberal cities where businesses all have to deny bathroom use to have so humans can have somewhere to go. I've used the older ones and the entire inside is sprayed down by like high pressure jet hoses with detergents, so no one can stay in there for more than I think 10 min is the limit.
Be careful in using public toilets because some sicko can put their cameras there and record you
@fumiyama165
Жыл бұрын
there are no shortage of sick people in SF
@FloridaMan69.
Жыл бұрын
I blame korean men
@FartBiter
Жыл бұрын
@@FloridaMan69. watch out for Roof Top Koreans
@Plato-gm4vo
9 ай бұрын
That is the last thing you need to worry about in SF.
That's a spot for dirty joe and the boys to have a soup kitchen.
Self cleaning? What does it do ? Fling the 💩 out the bottom?
Does it clean the blood splatter from the syringes also??
@kimbaptempura4073
Жыл бұрын
Considering these were purchased by the city/government they are most likely installed broken.
@tinkerbell2807
Жыл бұрын
And other bodily fluids from the sexual deviants that can use any public bathroom to groom and rape children
@Mike__B
4 күн бұрын
@@kimbaptempura4073 Did you mean "considering these weren't purchased by the city at all because I'm too lazy to watch the video and am only here to type hateful comments"??
Ah yes the Futurama style suicide pods begin. Autoclave your way off your mortal coil.
I love the green art nouveau style :( matches the Victorian esthetic
@kimberlysaeung8534
Жыл бұрын
Growing up I thought they were shut down news stands.
self cleaning toilet? you're shitting me
How long will it take our city to trash it?
Are these $1.7 million too?
Looks like it will launch at closing!
Wow, that's the new Apple Pro Shitter .... Only costs $5 million dollars or $7 million dollars for an added display
They actually prefer deficating on the sidewalk ,but yeah.
@kimbaptempura4073
Жыл бұрын
No they sleep, fuck, rape and shoot up in the pods, but yes the streets...well sidewalks and bus stops are for shitting pissing and also sleeping.
the first move the city has made for affordable housing in 25 years.
Paul Pelosi's new Glory Hole setup?
Can they be set up with a time limit? Do they automatically prevent people from sleeping in them?
@andrewfrodo2086
11 ай бұрын
Ones that are in Canada is a 15 min limit. 1 soap, and 3 water uses in sink.
@illuminatiZ
13 күн бұрын
In france it is 15 Minutes too
My husband is a contractor and he left a porta potty unlock to allow the homeless to have a place to use the bathroom if they needed. On day one, the homeless clogged the potty with clothes and other stuff on purpose and vandalized the potty inside and out. I going to say: nice effort but will be wasted.
@ffs6158
Жыл бұрын
Your husband learned the lesson everyone does thinking street people are all down on their luck normal folks, not the vast majority being deranged mentally ill druggies who will burn your house down lighting their meth pipe after they broke your windows for the quarter on your dash. But these toilets are homeless proof, you put money in, you have 10 minutes, then it locks and goes into a cleaning cycle.
@calliemioyo2543
Жыл бұрын
I agree with both of the reply comments. I must apologies for my labeling if homeless people who vandalize and destroy things. I really meant is that no matter the good intentions, someone mental or not might have the tendency to ruin things for everyone. Even if it locked down and self cleaning, it does not prevent people from breaking in and destroy it. I want to optimistic but the way the society is now a days it hard to say.
@dl1sf
Жыл бұрын
So your husband is the problem. Got it 🖕🏼😂🖕🏼
@calliemioyo2543
Жыл бұрын
@@dl1sf Gotta love your humor or lack of.
@ProbablyStupidGuy
10 ай бұрын
I'd assume it was teenagers stuffing homeless people's clothes in there. Teenagers can be absolute demons just cause they think it's funny.
Just add a shower head and a drain in the floor and you can have a private shower foo homeless or anybody who needs a shower. Wouldn't take much to retrofit that in. Kill two birds with one stone. Good for out of towners and tourists who are just visit for a few hours or half of the day and don't have a hotel to shower in.
@kf8113
11 ай бұрын
Just as long as the cleaning system can also kill stuff like HPV and legionnaires so it doesnt spread through people's feet
It's an intergalactic transporter that identifys as a "Potty."
Does it tell jokes? Does it do a dance? Is it a transformer?
I really love living in rural Indiana.
pretty cool but too bad its not touchless mechanism where you hover your hand over the sensor.
I give it a week before the "houseless" destroy it
Does it clean syringes and 💩 from your sidewalks ?
Homeless paradise
About damn time.
Self cleaning shooting gallery. We've done this before. I saw 10 dopefiends in one once .
They better kick the city something especially being that they were repairing things that didn't need to be repaired during the 3 years of covid lockdown
How much did SF get ripped off for this
@le_th_
Жыл бұрын
Are you hard of hearing? Maybe your earbuds aren't working? F R E E and if you want to know how and why they're free you can L I S T E N to the video for yourself.
When I went to Paris and Germany they use these types of restrooms. They've be used there for a long time.
Could charge a quarter for novelty and upgraded maintenance. Win/win…
I would need an immediate shower after.
Homeless people have better amenities than I do 😮💨
Looks like the Venusians have landed!
What happens when someone rubs their feces all over the walls? Does it clean that too?
Theyve had these in Paris for twenty years now.
Move those green toilets to other neighborhoods in need.
Why not just use Portland loo design??
What an eyesore
Any restroom that shares space with the homeless is a no.
Please put one in Soma
How does it “self clean”, what does that mean?
@mfo7611
Жыл бұрын
It’s all mechanical inside. After it’s used all kinds of things start spinning and spraying. Think of it as a transformer, but for shit.
@grassytramtracks
27 күн бұрын
Basically has a car wash for the toilet and the floor. Toilets like this are common in many other parts of the world like France
Millions of dollars for a restroom? Homeless still shit on sidewalks
Similar to the PoDs in Paris.
I walked in there and there was homeless sleeping in a tent, used needles, feces on the ground. Good luck ya'll
a needle junkies private dope shooting spot....just what the city needs
smells like fish and eggs inside
Can they also be used to work on your laptop and drink some coffee?
Secret evacuation-tunnel entrances, where clandestine operatives can pop out without warning or disappear.
How much did it cost the tax payers.?
@le_th_
Жыл бұрын
good freakin' god, PAY ATTENTION. Did you NOT listen? They are FREE to SF and if you want to know HOW and WHY you can go back and listen to the video again. sheesh
@charlesxavier5681
Жыл бұрын
@@le_th_ Nothings Free 🤦♂️
@sammichow9737
Жыл бұрын
Nothing is free in this world. It must feel great to be such a naive person still in this time.
How does it self clean?
@grassytramtracks
27 күн бұрын
The floor and toilet are sprayed down with nozzles squirting water and disinfectant, so like a car wash
It already broke down.
BYO toilet paper.
it is nice, but it's a waste of money, they need to address the problem and crime that is going on, having a fancy shiter is nice but the city is full of shit
It’s only a matter of time before the homeless calls those toilets home
@grassytramtracks
27 күн бұрын
They kick you out automatically after 20 minutes
It's the suicide booth from Futurama.
A sleek, space age location to shoot up. 💉
Nothing about San Francisco is self-cleaning.
THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF LAZINESS I did clean bathrooms for a lot of years and I'll continue to Y'all are just freaking lazy, do your job and clean bathrooms. No matter how messy about them was I still cleaned. It made it sparkly
It will be so nasty in a few hours. Knowing Americans, they can’t have nice shit like this. Maybe in Japan it works but not in the us lol 😂
@estelaangeles2346
Жыл бұрын
You are telling me north Americans , south Americans , europeans , africans and other asian countries will leave it dirty ?
Instead of 25 add 50 in different neighborhoods in Sf would be better
Hopefully less shit in every corner!!
Is that right in front of the building? Does it ruin the view down market street?!!! Stickers and graffiti are usually beautiful… the inflated salaries of public works employees making the stupidest and most anti-public decisions is absolutely disgusting. The lines for these bathrooms will be so long. They spend extra money because they don’t want to provide safe and warm places for unhoused people, and that is the most selfish and ugly thing ever. Shame!!!
What’s wrong with going on the sidewalks?
Can they be tipped over?
@jsEMCsquared
Жыл бұрын
@The Polite Scumbag well garsh darn it then!
Los Angeles needs a lot of these
SF is going down the toilet. 🚽
Of course they have to make them soulless and gross looking and clash with the any beauty left in SF from a time long past.
It'll be covered in graffiti and human feces in no time
JC DEUCEau
i need bounties and handling fees for all my work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ai busses wont come for another 5 years and subways wont come for another 2 years.
A brave soul needs to take these to the dirtiest parts of 🇮🇳 India where they could make the most impact.
"Street artists" incoming 🎨🤪😱☠️
It will look like a porter potty within a month gang writing all kinds of crap inside watch waste of money you got to clean up the city before you can put shit like that in the city
@estelaangeles2346
Жыл бұрын
But its steel so you can wash the writing
Just a comfortable spot for addict’s to get high in .. Nice try tho Council
hahaha called a Public Toilet and you need to pay for it, is it really for the public? wasting all those tax payer's money and gain more problems. what are these people thinking? hahaha sitting in the office and they never have to use a public toilet!
@paramveerdhoot6415
5 ай бұрын
They are free.... Did you even watch the video?
Here's an idea: Charge people to use public bathrooms like they do in Europe. Instead, this European is getting you to buy his toilets
@peterl.104
Жыл бұрын
There is no buying of toilets. The video said they are provided at no charge in exchange for free advertisement space on kiosks. Seems like a fair deal.
@le_th_
Жыл бұрын
Are your earbuds not working??? It's F R E E sheesh
@J7pat7
Жыл бұрын
How much do they charge in Europe to use them ?
@giftedgreen2152
Жыл бұрын
How about the city installs their own toilets and covers the cost of maintenance by charging people to use them?
@J7pat7
Жыл бұрын
@@giftedgreen2152 They want homeless people to use them instead of doing it on the streets which is why they aren't charging .
More places where the homeless can do drugs
new hangout place for homeless and druggies.
Nice addition for the homeless population, paid by your average 9--5 workers.
How long until a homeless person moves in??? Thanks I am here all week!!!!! Sorry, SF, bad idea. I see trouble with these in the next coming weeks.
@grassytramtracks
27 күн бұрын
They kick you out automatically after 20 minutes
I see the MAGAts have arrived to be upset at a.... *Checks notes* public toilet. Very cool
@paramveerdhoot6415
5 ай бұрын
Based on the comments no one even watched the video, must be bots?