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Normal travelators are very standard. They‘re very slow, though, operating at ~2 km/h What the grandparent is talking about was a high speed travelator that ac
by bobthepanda 4y ago
Normal travelators are very standard. They‘re very slow, though, operating at ~2 km/h
What the grandparent is talking about was a high speed travelator that accelerates people to 9km/h to provide shorter journey times. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3001182.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3001182.stm
- tomatocracy 4y agoToronto airport also has (or at least had, it's about 5 years since I was last there) travelators which start slower to allow you to get on/off and then accelerate in the middle (they work by the individual segments getting "longer" and "shorter"). Not sure how fast they go but it definitely feels quite a bit faster than normal ones.
- cperciva 4y agoYes, and they're infamous for breaking all the time.
- dmurray 4y agoIsaac Asimov's Caves of Steel predicted banks of travelators running in parallel, where the one at the edge would go at a walking place and each successive one would go faster so you could travel many miles at 30mph or more.