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Maybe, since this is a standard wherever there are esclators or moving platforms, the manufacuturers hold some blame? It seems optimizing for that behavior woul
by Neliquat 10y ago
Maybe, since this is a standard wherever there are esclators or moving platforms, the manufacuturers hold some blame? It seems optimizing for that behavior would be simple.
- brudgers 10y agoI think it's more a matter of timeframes. Escalators have been around since the end of the 19th century, and it has taken about a century for humans to develop 'laws of the road.' But as the article shows, facility owners have not yet adapted to the change in human behavior and facility owners are who buys escalators. And few bureaucrats, whether in San Fransisco or China, are going to go out on a limb and demand an unproven asymmetric escalator design. So for manufacturers there's no demand and there will not be for several decades at best...escalators are long life cycle equipment and an asymmetric escalator doesn't pay for itself through energy savings and the increased maintenance costs of asymmetric ridership aren't high enough to justify a swapout...even if a bureaucrat could get the budget to cover initial cost, which most can't.