/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1376960
>It is more important to keep the plug looking like a face rather than keep the consumer/user safe
It's more that every single stupid thing like this where they were too cheap to put 6" of cable before the brick becomes frustrating as fuck with upside down sockets. Even just 90 degree plugs are worse and more likely to pull out with the cable going up instead of down.
It's been tradition for long enough that everything is designed to work with them that way and having them the opposite is a concrete annoyance vs the nebulous safety benefits.

I'm curious how much difference it makes, surely someone has done the statistical analysis, what the difference in likelihood of housefires/electrocutions is between the two. I doubt it's that significant, personally.