in the event that the elevator does run out of air or plunges to the ground, the situation outside of the elevator is likely significantly worse than inside and it's likely you would have died much sooner had you not been stuck inside this over-engineered metal case.
hmmmmm. I was in an elevator in a big Chicago hotel that suddenly fell 3 levels. Hit my head and had a seizure, a night at a hospital. If I saw that sign I’d likely walk the stairs.
Well they would say that wouldn't they...until it is the person that wrote the sign, hammering on the doors, screaming "I can't breath, I can hear the cable breaking!"
so what happens if you are running out of air while freefalling in this elevator and the elevator isn't equipped with the phone to call the 24 hour emergency service?
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Thank god! I was really worried about dropping uncontrollably AND running out of air at the same time. I shouldn't have been. More likely the elevator will be vaporized by the #Climate #Emergency. Good to know someone is on call.
@tek I think there are people in the world who have seen too many movies and really panic that those things are going to happen if the elevator gets stuck.
It's plausible to me that there are enough people out there who absolutely freak the fuck out that someone might want to preemptively reassure them to try to keep people from frantically calling 911 the moment there's an elevator issue.
But introducing new worries to other people is the unintended side effect.
"citizen, do not consider all the horrifying ways you could be killed or mutilated by this device. Do not imagine your painful death by asphyxiation while enclosed within it. Stop imagining it. Stop"
I worked in the Flatiron building in NYC before the old hydraulic elevators were replaced. Sometimes the car would just drop one floor at a time for no reason. We took the stairs most of the time.
Despite the odds, I have been in buildings twice when elevators have actually fallen uncontrollably. I wasn't either elevator. Both were either being inspected or were under repair. But this is me looking sideways at that sign.
One time when I was on a consulting gig in a different city, I got stuck in an elevator. I used the phone to call the elevator company, only to be routed to a call centre several thousand kilometres away. The person on the phone needed the address of the building I was in, which I didn't know: "I'm in the <<customer name>> tower in <<city name>>." The license that was supposed to be posted in the elevator (which would have had an address on it) wasn't. Frightening and frustrating.
I know that elevators are *extremely* safe (thanks @deviantollam) but a high speed elevator going up full speed that suddenly stops and drops down a floor is kinda scary. I took the stairs for the remaining 5 floors.
I was later told by people more familiar with this building "Oh yeah, they do that sometimes, it happens when the other car is being held longer than the computer expected."
And presumably also little danger of becoming embroiled in a locked-room murder mystery that alters the lives of everyone involved and goes unsolved until the statute of limitations is just about to run out?
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •in the event that the elevator does run out of air or plunges to the ground, the situation outside of the elevator is likely significantly worse than inside and it's likely you would have died much sooner had you not been stuck inside this over-engineered metal case.
In which case, you're welcome.
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I would have worded it as "RELATIVELY LITTLE DANGER".
(For some reason I'm not allowed to design elevators.)
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I think there are people in the world who have seen too many movies and really panic that those things are going to happen if the elevator gets stuck.
It's plausible to me that there are enough people out there who absolutely freak the fuck out that someone might want to preemptively reassure them to try to keep people from frantically calling 911 the moment there's an elevator issue.
But introducing new worries to other people is the unintended side effect.
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I get those are things people freak out about but the cheery ambivalence still annoys me.
more serious concerns IMO
* Need to pee
* Need to poop
* It's flipping hot in the elevator and I don't have water
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I know that elevators are *extremely* safe (thanks @deviantollam) but a high speed elevator going up full speed that suddenly stops and drops down a floor is kinda scary. I took the stairs for the remaining 5 floors.
I was later told by people more familiar with this building "Oh yeah, they do that sometimes, it happens when the other car is being held longer than the computer expected."
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •ELEVATOR RAN OUT OF AIR
OR DROPPED
UNCONTROLLABLY: ____
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I feel they could have been clearer _still_:
ODDS OF SURVIVAL
FROM HUNGER AND THIRST INSIDE THE CABIN:
➡️ PRETTY GOOD
FROM BISECTION IF TRYING TO ESCAPE UNAIDED:
➡️ NOT THAT GOOD
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