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Did you ever ride in the elevator again?

• IanCal 9y ago
  It's reasonable to think that a randomly selected elevator is safe enough to ride, while also thinking the one you've just seen have some kind of fault is not.
  • kryptiskt 9y ago
    But why would an elevator that had demonstrated that it had a working safety brake like that be more unsafe than any other elevator? I trust in Elisha Otis.
    • amelius 9y ago
      By the way, here is a nice video explaining the mechanism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSjJjKcoNRk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSjJjKcoNRk
    • IanCal 9y ago
      A working safety break should be assumed to be the case, surely. Another, unknown fault not so. All it really tells you is at least one thing is definitely wrong with the lift.
• alrs 9y ago
  There was a bank of six, I stayed off that one for a week.
  • noja 9y ago
    How did you choose one week, rather than a day, or forever? Why were "people" foolish to stay in the elevator and keep using it that day, while you were not foolish because you waited a week?
    • Filligree 9y ago
      Presumably, a week was enough time for a technician to give it a look-over.