Recently, the Shanxi Provincial Administration for Market Supervision released the "2024 "Four Seasons Guardian Iron Fist" Special Action and "Spring Seedling" Typical Cases of Protecting the Health of Children and Students. Among them, among the typical cases of children's toy violations, including the case of unqualified twisting cars.
After comparison, most of the top 10 twisting cars on a platform are complained by users that the car is unstable and will overturn.
Is a twister car safe? Can you play with a twister car for your child? It has become a question for many novice parents.
The failure rate of baby carriage sampling is rising
When a product is launched, it is first necessary to ensure the compliance and qualification of the product. Judging from the sampling inspection of the Market Supervision and Administration Bureau in recent years, the sampling failure rate of the stroller market is on the rise.
As one of the categories of children's carriages, what is the sampling situation of twisting cars?
On November 10, 2023, the Hebei Provincial Market Supervision Bureau issued an announcement that the children's twisting car sold by Handan Enyao Trading Co., Ltd. (HohoAngel flagship store) was judged to be unqualified, and the unqualified items were toy instructions, logos and instructions. The production unit of this twisting car is Pingxiang County Xuanyao Children's Toy Factory.
As early as June 10, 2022, the Hebei Provincial Market Supervision Bureau also sampled and found that the Meishengda brand folding and twisting car produced by Xingtai Meishengda Automobile Industry Co., Ltd. was unqualified, and the unqualified items were plastic bags or plastic films used in packaging or toys.
During the same period, the children's twisting cars sold by Hebei Lehechuang Children's Products Co., Ltd. and Pingxiang County Yunfei Stroller Distribution Department were judged to be unqualified by the Hebei Provincial Market Supervision Bureau due to substandard labeling and instructions.
According to the State Administration for Market Regulation, in 2021, the bureau organized a national supervision and random inspection of the quality of children's student products. Among them, strollers (including children's bicycles, children's tricycles, children's strollers, baby walkers, electric strollers, other toy vehicles, etc.) randomly inspected 270 batches of children's bicycle products produced by 264 enterprises in 13 provinces (municipalities).
The results of the random inspection showed that the failure rate of the random inspection of the stroller was 8.1%, an increase of 4.2 percentage points from the previous random inspection. For the production enterprises in Hebei Province, Zhejiang Province, Guangdong Province and other industrial clusters, 69 batches, 64 batches and 55 batches of products were randomly inspected, and the unqualified rates were 10.1%, 7.8% and 7.3% respectively.
Among them, the children's twisting car produced by Pingxiang County Shuailong Children's Toy Factory was recognized as unqualified by the State Administration for Market Regulation due to the normal use of mechanical and physical properties (front and rear stability).
Generally speaking, in recent years, the unqualified sampling inspection of children's twisting cars is mainly due to the substandard identification and description; The packaging plastic bag/plastic film is not up to standard; The front and rear stability is not up to standard, etc.
For consumers, judging the quality of a twisting car, in addition to the safety of production materials, the stability of the vehicle in the process of use is the most intuitive criterion. However, among the twisted cars currently on the market, there are many products that are at risk of being overturned by user reviews.
Typing in Xiaohongshu "twisting car rollover", you can see that many users posted that the child overturned while using the twisting car, resulting in a fall injury.
Best-selling twist cars are often complained about and will roll over
The reporter selected the best-selling list of an e-commerce platform to observe the safety of twisted cars with high sales.
As shown in the figure below, as of May 7, the top 10 brands on the hot selling list of twisting cars in the past 7 days are Beiyi, Yuezhan Kyoto, Leka, Beibeigao, Qiaole Bear, Kuqi, Manlong, Harpy Junior, etc. Among them, Beiyi has the highest frequency of appearance, and the brand occupies 3 places in the top 10 list.
In the comment section of the top 10 twisting cars on the best-selling list, users can be found to complain about the instability of the vehicle and the ability to roll over.
It is worth mentioning that Beiyi claims to be the pioneer brand of anti-rollover and twist car in the product picture area, but one of its twist cars has been frequently complained by consumers about the rollover situation.
Mr. Ye from Zengcheng revealed to reporters that he bought a super cool sports car in February this year, and was going to be a birthday gift for his son. As a result, when I bought it back and put it on the ground, the car was already unstable, and I didn't dare to let the child try it, so the car was idle at home.
Mr. Ye also told reporters that he had consulted with Beiyi customer service, and the other party replied that the front small wheel of the twister car landed on the ground to prevent a rollover, and the child could prevent it from rolling over by sitting back when using it.
As you can see from the dialogue picture, the rear wheels are cocked when the twister is laid flat on the ground, and there is no contact with the ground.
The driving principle of the torsion car is the centrifugal law and the curvilinear force law
As can be seen from the foregoing, regardless of the price of the twisting car, some users say that it will roll over. This begs the question, why does a twisted car overturn? Is there a twister that doesn't roll over?
The reporter learned that the driving principle of the torsion car is to adopt the centrifugal law and the curvilinear force law, that is, through the left and right sides of the swing, the two front wheels are promoted to swing alternately one after the other to generate power, so as to achieve the purpose of forward movement.
Generally speaking, the front wheel is a training wheel, which usually does not touch the ground and does not roll. When the steering wheel of the twisting car rotates too widely, the two front wheels will shift to one side, causing the front wheels at both ends of the car to deviate to one side, causing the car to be unstable and the child to fall.
The correct use of qualified torsion car will generally not cause overturning. Here, the reporter reminds parents to try to choose a smooth road surface when letting their children use a twisting car, and avoid potholes or places with large slopes to prevent the danger of overturning.
In addition, remind your child to control the speed and the amount of twisting the steering wheel during use. As long as the two front wheels are always switched slightly when the car is twisted, the body is in a relatively balanced state. This is also why in the face of the same twisting car, consumers' attitudes are mixed.