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“Walking on escalators may lead to accidents caused by collisions or luggage.” I'm sensing zero-risk bias, typical for modern western societies. For me, there
by pgtan 8y ago
“Walking on escalators may lead to accidents caused by collisions or luggage.”
I'm sensing zero-risk bias, typical for modern western societies. For me, there is absolutely no reason to stand on the escalator, unless handicapped of course.
- nambit 8y agoWhat if I'm tired? Fuck you
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- dang 8y agoCould you please not post uncivil or unsubstantive comments to HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- toyg 8y agoTiredness, luggage, children, trying to make sense of directions, being in company... so many reasons not to walk. In fact, I bet most people never walk at all on an escalator.
- eMSF 8y agoYou forgot laziness... even though it's probably the most common one. Still not sure it should be encouraged, though.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoDo those people get stuck in place when walking into a staircase, until paramedics come to rescue them? Escalators are just stairs, except you get to the other end faster. Being tired is a fair point, but that's why there was left/right side compromise.
- __blockcipher__ 8y agoThis is how I’ve always thought about it, but I’m realizing now that that’s the minority opinion. From the user’s reference frame, escalators behave the same as stairs until you hit the end (as long as you don’t sit on the railing thingy)
- __blockcipher__ 8y agoWow. I’ve always been so baffled by this mentality. The number of people who are otherwise healthy but refuse to walk up stairs just shocks me. I’ve never felt like walking up an escalator carried any significant risk for the able bodied... I don’t know how to explain it except that people are shockingly lazy and just overall have really screwed up risk assessment
- pgtan 8y agoMy explanation is, the escalators and elevators are the "little socialism" for the people: they provide free service and in order to consume it fully, nobody moves. I have friends running marathons but still using elevators when on work.
- yardstick 8y agoDoes this mean you always prefer using stairs over escalators?
- meddlepal 8y agoNot sure about parent poster, but I try to always use the stairs unless they are not convenient (e.g. not right next to the escalators). I've got long enough legs to comfortably ascend two stairs at once and I prefer the exercise as well as the speed of ascent and descent.
- __blockcipher__ 8y agoYes. Even elevators, but I’ll take the elevator if I’m with people or the stairs are hard to find (you’d be surprised sometimes)
- throw-far-away 8y agoAs sedentary as modern people are, they/we need all the exercise we can get. Our older selves will (hopefully) thank us.
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoI'll go a step further and say, if escalators are really so dangerous that we need to prevent people from walking on them, than they're too dangerous to begin with and should be removed in favor of elevators, ramps, etc. As far as I'm aware, though, escalators are not a leading cause of death.