Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?

Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by an_ko on Saturday November 27, 2021 @08:43AM (#29360089)

Huh. In Finland, fire code requires that external doors swing outward. It's intended to make it faster to exit the building since you can just walk forward, and to prevent people getting trapped indoors if a panicked crowd tries to push out through the door.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by fredophile on Saturday November 27, 2021 @10:18AM (#29360795)

I believe the post above was only meant to be applied to interior doors. The explanation I've gotten in the past is interior doors open in so they don't block people outside the room, typically in a hallway, from being able to move towards the exit; Exterior doors open out so that the crowd of people rushing towards the exit can leave and you don't have a mass of panicked people stopping those at the front from having room to open the exterior doors.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by JensRantil on Friday December 10, 2021 @03:43AM (#29507789)

Same in Sweden.

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