Sometimes engineers just have a total design fail:
And you end up embarrassing people. Fortunately, her face is blurred out. Or maybe she enjoys the display. Who knows?
But other times—designers were very deliberate….
Let me ask you a question.
Are you brave?
Would you be willing to use a toilet in a street window, in the busy part of a downtown city? Under the assumption that engineers designed it to be a one-way window: you see out, nobody sees in?
Well, are you brave my child?
In the words of JRR Tolkien,
“Courage is found in unlikely places.”