Automatic flushers aren’t really automatic!!

A recent pet peeve of mine is the naming of ‘Automatic’ toilet flushers. I am referring to the kind that use a motion sensor and you have to wave your hand in front of them (pictured below). These should be called ‘no touch’ or semi-automatic flushers, because the toilet operator still has to make a conscious effort and wave their hand.

I was thinking about this while sitting on a can controlled by one of these devices, and I took a picture on my way out with my cell phone.

There are fully automatic flushers on the market. These are the kind that flush as soon as you stand up and walk away from the toilet, an act that you would have done anyways and are therefore automatic. I am calling for a vast renaming of ‘automatic’ flushers to something like non-contact or sanitary. Anything but ‘automatic’ will do.