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The Italian cable car was really messed up. The emergency brakes of that cart were intermittently triggering, so the operator jammed a piece of metal to stop th
by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
The Italian cable car was really messed up. The emergency brakes of that cart were intermittently triggering, so the operator jammed a piece of metal to stop that from happening.
His assumption is surely, "Relax, what's going to happen, the cable won't break!".
- ectopod 5y ago> The emergency brakes of that cart were intermittently triggering My guess: each time a strand within the cable broke the cable stretched a little and the brake triggered. Five years ago a company was hired to maintain the cable car. They took one look at the state of it, wrote to the operator (the town council) saying it needed to be shut down and exited the contract. It was an accident waiting to happen long before the brake fiasco.