This post is dedicated to Kathryn Isaak, who didn't get to one of these during her short stay in Berlin. This is a public restroom. Like lots of WCs in Europe, you must pay to use it. Maddie is navigating the sensors for the faucet, soap, and hand dryer here.
The difference is that this is entirely automatic and self-cleaning. It gives each customer up to 20 minutes and then it cleans itself (unless you are handicapped, and then you get 40 minutes). The toilet seat rotates around and gets cleaned, the floor gets cleaned, etc. There is space age music, which I wasn't expecting.
Usually there are women at each restroom who keep it clean and you give them some coins in exchange. I would think that the union of toiletten damen would be up at arms about this, because it might threaten job security if robots were doing what they do, but so far I have only seen five in Berlin, so perhaps it isn't an issue.
This post is dedicated to Kathryn Isaak, who didn't get to one of these during her short stay in Berlin. This is a public restroom. Like lots of WCs in Europe, you must pay to use it. Maddie is navigating the sensors for the faucet, soap, and hand dryer here.
The difference is that this is entirely automatic and self-cleaning. It gives each customer up to 20 minutes and then it cleans itself (unless you are handicapped, and then you get 40 minutes). The toilet seat rotates around and gets cleaned, the floor gets cleaned, etc. There is space age music, which I wasn't expecting.
Usually there are women at each restroom who keep it clean and you give them some coins in exchange. I would think that the union of toiletten damen would be up at arms about this, because it might threaten job security if robots were doing what they do, but so far I have only seen five in Berlin, so perhaps it isn't an issue.
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