The technology, developed by scientists at the Open University, is on sale. Would you trust your dog with it?

  • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    I can understand this from an accessibility standpoint, but not from a laziness standpoint.

    If your average schmuck gets one of these, their poorly-trained-at-best dog is going to either use it whenever it wants, or never use it at all, which just makes e-waste.

    It would only really work for service dogs because of how well trained and well selected they are.

    Growing up, our dogs were all fairly well trained, to the point that some of them formed a sled team, and not a single one of them would be a good fit for this lazybutton.