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The design is bullshit. People would have their legs crushed as the car descends, and then they would fall into the hole and die.
by bitslayer 8y ago
The design is bullshit. People would have their legs crushed as the car descends, and then they would fall into the hole and die.
- ben_w 8y agoPeople are very good at not being crushed by moving things or falling into massive holes. I myself fail to be crushed or fall into a massive hole literally every time I use an elevator. Or go past a building site. Or…
- ceejayoz 8y agoThe hole illustrated in the Tesla video is horrendously unsafe (almost like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster), but I'm 100% certain the final product won't look anything like that.
- nickik 8y agoYeah because this short concept video surly is the final version.
- kevinmchugh 8y agoPeople die pretty regularly when elevator doors open before the car has arrived. Elevator doors that don't open unless a car is there are a major safety feature.
- ben_w 8y ago“regularly” ⇏ (P(accident|all elevator use)»0)
- kevinmchugh 8y agoby regularly I mean it's multiple stories every week on the industry podcast: http://www.elevatorradioshow.com/blog/2018/6/13/elevator-radio-show-507-week-6132018 http://www.elevatorradioshow.com/blog/2018/6/13/elevator-rad...
- ben_w 8y agoNo doubt, yet not my point. Out of interest, are you familiar with the Availability Heuristic? It’s something I find challenging to think around even when I spot it affecting my perception of likelihoods.
- ceejayoz 8y agoThis is likely a heavily-stylized idea of the concept that'd evolve significantly when actually built. (The same has happened regularly with SpaceX videos.) I'd expect the final implementation to look more like http://subwaynut.com/irt/chambersn1/chambersn130.jpg http://subwaynut.com/irt/chambersn1/chambersn130.jpg.