Playground Slide Manufactured in China Declared "Dangerous" by the American Consumer Union.

Slide Design Using Genetic Algorithms* is Blamed. Major Product Recall Announced.

The American Consumer Union (ACU) has declared the XD133 Slow Down Slide unsafe for children.  The slides, distributed in the United States and Canada by the Happy Red Slice Playground Company, are manufactured in China.  After two weeks of testing and mounting hospital bills for skin grafts, ACU claims the slide causes serious chafing and abrasions on children.

The ACU traced the origin of the slide’s flaw to the evolutionary computer program used to design the slide. We talked to Chuck Cheung Leung, spokesman for the Evolution Revosoft Company in Nanjing, China who was responsible for writing the design code.

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