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Toronto 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 acceler
by tomatocracy 4y ago
Toronto 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.