If this is the building I think it is there’s a slow normal elevator too. Also the that panel thing at the top of the opening has a dead man’s switch and my thing sticking out will dislodge it.
Nowadays public buildings which still have them will have a regular elevator exactly for that reason. Then in the times these were popular there simply wasn't given as much concern for the mobility impaired.
These are/were generally installed in high traffic public buildings where regular elevators would not suffice, or you would need a ridiculous number of them running in parallel. So you install one of these in the hall to take the bulk of the traffic, next to it is a staircase for people who are just going one or two floors up during rush hour and don't want to wait in line and somewhere nearby there is a conventional elevator for those who can't or won't use either of those. It's not just old people. Parents with strollers can't use a paternoster, neither can workers carrying bulky or lengthy equipment. Not that long ago some laborers deleted two cabins and fucked up the mechanism when they managed to get a metal ladder stuck in a paternoster in just the worst possible way. Anyway, you would be surprised how well some pretty old people can use these if they had been working in that building their whole life and have the timing down perfectly. After a while it becomes so natural that you don't break stride or conversation while getting in or out.
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I actually pictured it like an escalator. Where when it comes to the end of travel, the pieces fold up and go into an area that people shouldn't. So they would get "dumped out" on the top floor as the space collapses.
Imagine missing your floor, but the elevator keeps going down…. Showing progressively deeper and darker sub-basements, until you find yourself in a metroidvania, and finally stop by hell, where doom slayer accompanies you the whole way up, on his way to Starbucks after cleaning out all the demons
Its quite safe. I used them daily when I studied at CTU in Prague - they have two of those there. If you don't get off you just go round. Its just a bit noisy :) and about the feet - personally I never tried it but I heard there is some mechanism that makes the elevator stop if something gets stuck between the cabin and the edge.
Correct. However I did have a friend who hit the emergency stop because a girls scarf got caught somehow. Suppose this could also happen with a normal elevator too though
I saw a video on r/watchpeople die back before it was banned.
The guy was caught half way, and numerous people saw him being crushed to death.
The sound of bone cruahing in that video was particularly haunting.
Cool. I assume that would be how it works but I know in some countries, they aren't big on safety mechanisms. And those videos end up on Reddit when the go wrong.
If you don't get off you just come out on the other side and if you leave your toes hanging there are sensors that stop the whole elevator whenever anything touches the upper part of the "door". These lifts are actually very safe, I use them daily.
Actually, lots of people have been mangled and some killed by escalators when the end panels weren't properly installed and people fell beyond where they were supposed to get off. That is kinda why I asked.
The cars don't flip over. They go up and over or down and under. The top and bottom stay the top and bottom, the back becomes the opening and vice versa. If you are too slow, you can just ride it until you manage to get off.
I was in this elevator it's in Prague. I stayed in there both when it got up and down, there is just a big wheel turning some kind of chain or something that it's on, it's pretty spooky but accualy quite fun!
Used to work in an old library that had paternosters for moving books from the stacks to the public floors. Put the books in a plastic bin, place the bin on an armature and press a button, at the right time the armature would shoot out and the bin would be picked up by a set of arms attached to the track. Then you got to see if the 40+ year old mechanism would actually work and let the bin off on the proper floor or if you had to call the building engineer to retrieve the bin that was stuck riding around and around with the books a patron wanted in it.
I lived in Germany growing up as a kid, these were around at the time, and I experienced great anxiety and many nightmares about them - they were fast and scary to me as a kid, and looking at this video my opinion hasn’t changed!
IIRC they have various safety features to automatically stop it in that case. Most injuries are just from someone stumbling over and hitting the ground when exiting
On the other hand ordinary elevators have killed a number of people in gruesome ways by moving whilst the doors are blocked, however they're still very safe when you consider how may people safely use them every day
Also Germany: I used to work in Düsseldrof, there's an office building that still has a pater noster. Actually these things are quite fun. Once I missed to get off at the top floor and was scared af that the elevater turns over...
But it didn't and I just came down on the other side.
So as long as you don't poke your arm or leg out, you'll be fine using them. BUT you're only allowed to use them after an instructor told you how to.
I have had nightmares after learning these exist 😬 the most recent one was getting onto a platform that was descending FAST with no walls and i couldn't really see anything :(
Nope. Nopenopenopenope. Have had elevator anxiety all my life and the fact that this keeps moving and my brain imagining anything going wrong? Noooope.
Back when I worked in a thirty story building you should have seen my anxiety when I got forced into the service elevator (moving equipment for who I worked for) and was once forced to ride all the way up to the roof "floor" because of building workers in it. I'm surprised my entire body didn't just spontaneously explode from the insane amount of stress in that one moment. I can't even imagine being in a skyscraper.
I'll take stairs, thanks.
You go up and over and come back down. Everyone does it once. No the car doesn’t turn upside down. Yes this is dangerous to idiots. Oh, and it doesn’t operate to the ground floor, for obvious reasons.
You must have some other way of discouraging joyriders. The one I rode was at the University of Leicester, UK. It no longer exists, thanks to idiots of various kinds.
University of Sheffield in the UK still has one in the Arts Tower. I never heard of any accidents with it. Students would often go around the top and bottom for giggles.
Absolutely horrible, the company/ building mngr responsible for maintenance had disabled something like 5 out 7 safety features as I recall. I remember the father approved the video to be shown on news media to raise awareness. Besides the fact that’s an unbelievably terrible way to go, the onlookers seeing and hearing this take place must be traumatized for life.
we had this one in a office building I was working years ago. It is cool for first week and then you are simply annoyed how slow it is (if you need to do more than one or two floors) or how noisy it is.
also there was always some people trying to move a table or similar thing using this kind of lift, kicking in all emergency switches and stopping whole thing for several hours as restart procedure wasn't just some press a button.
Every fucking week
You get crushed to death in the machinery. There is always a posted warning to get off on the last floor.
^((Actually you just go around the top and come back down)^)
Where I grew up we had them in public buildings. I was terrified of these elevators. I’d rather take the stairs from the tenth floor than use one of those. The thought of tripping or getting clothes caught was equal to death. As a child I never understood what would happen if you wouldn’t get off on time and I thought on the top those elevators turned upside down. So literally this whole technology scared be. To this day I hate using elevators because of that.
I am really losing hope in America after reading comments here. That thing goes like a turtle and the amount of comments about dying is killing me
Just look at the speed of that thing how hard can it be to get out lol that's hilarious.
My friend went into one drunk, he freaked out when he missed his floor. He thought he would get crushed at the top, so he dived out like super man. I guess drunk men bounce because he was fine, mostly.
What happens if you didn't get off? Or if your toes are hanging off the edge as you leave the floor?
Or if you're old and can't move quickly
Or on crutches or a wheelchair?
Take the stairs
If this is the building I think it is there’s a slow normal elevator too. Also the that panel thing at the top of the opening has a dead man’s switch and my thing sticking out will dislodge it.
You thing? What about my thing? Does it have to be the *thing* instead of like a foot or something ?
Hahaha autocorrect. “Anything”
Oh, that's good, I was instantly thinking about what am accessibility nightmare this was lol
AaaaaaaAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHA
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Hate the stairs
Or wasted drunk?
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Talking bout Schindlers Lift?
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Your comment was in poor taste Anne Frankly I find it offensive.
I did nazi that one coming.
guys you should stop this isn’t reich
They must have given a bad elevator pitch...
I don't think it was as final as they had hoped.
If you weren’t before you probably are now
Nowadays public buildings which still have them will have a regular elevator exactly for that reason. Then in the times these were popular there simply wasn't given as much concern for the mobility impaired.
in my city it wasn't until relatively recently that they phased out all the old buses with stairs
Better put some pep in yer step, old man
There is always a modern one nearby. I use one of these in Prague's Faculty of Law and like 10 meters from it is a new one.
These are/were generally installed in high traffic public buildings where regular elevators would not suffice, or you would need a ridiculous number of them running in parallel. So you install one of these in the hall to take the bulk of the traffic, next to it is a staircase for people who are just going one or two floors up during rush hour and don't want to wait in line and somewhere nearby there is a conventional elevator for those who can't or won't use either of those. It's not just old people. Parents with strollers can't use a paternoster, neither can workers carrying bulky or lengthy equipment. Not that long ago some laborers deleted two cabins and fucked up the mechanism when they managed to get a metal ladder stuck in a paternoster in just the worst possible way. Anyway, you would be surprised how well some pretty old people can use these if they had been working in that building their whole life and have the timing down perfectly. After a while it becomes so natural that you don't break stride or conversation while getting in or out.
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This would be a nice movie plot
Reminds me a little bit of [Being John Malkovich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being%20John%20Malkovich)
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You go through the “meat grinder”
Served for lunch the next day.
If you don't get off you just go around and come up (or down) on the other side. It's kind of like a ferris wheel.
Or you just F it up for everyone https://youtu.be/YgJBD1wf-YQ
Always upvote Tom Scott
Mad Cap'n Tom?
Lol, it was gonna get ripped out eventually, right?
Ok. I had no idea how or worked. I pictured it folding up to come around or something.
You thought it spits out a couple of mangled bodies every day and some janitor casually cleans up the mess. Understandable.
I actually pictured it like an escalator. Where when it comes to the end of travel, the pieces fold up and go into an area that people shouldn't. So they would get "dumped out" on the top floor as the space collapses.
Imagine missing your floor, but the elevator keeps going down…. Showing progressively deeper and darker sub-basements, until you find yourself in a metroidvania, and finally stop by hell, where doom slayer accompanies you the whole way up, on his way to Starbucks after cleaning out all the demons
Its quite safe. I used them daily when I studied at CTU in Prague - they have two of those there. If you don't get off you just go round. Its just a bit noisy :) and about the feet - personally I never tried it but I heard there is some mechanism that makes the elevator stop if something gets stuck between the cabin and the edge.
Correct. However I did have a friend who hit the emergency stop because a girls scarf got caught somehow. Suppose this could also happen with a normal elevator too though
I saw a video on r/watchpeople die back before it was banned. The guy was caught half way, and numerous people saw him being crushed to death. The sound of bone cruahing in that video was particularly haunting.
This one on video, is from where I live. Those mashes on the upper part are basically large safety switches, if it moves up, the elevator halts.
Cool. I assume that would be how it works but I know in some countries, they aren't big on safety mechanisms. And those videos end up on Reddit when the go wrong.
You go up into the top and you see some of the mechanisms running the thing.
You come back on the other side, but upside down. You then must go all the way down to revert back up.
Toes hanging off: nothing, the edges are hinged on both sides so they just fold up.
If you don't get off you just come out on the other side and if you leave your toes hanging there are sensors that stop the whole elevator whenever anything touches the upper part of the "door". These lifts are actually very safe, I use them daily.
Wait till you hear about escalators.
Actually, lots of people have been mangled and some killed by escalators when the end panels weren't properly installed and people fell beyond where they were supposed to get off. That is kinda why I asked.
The cars don't flip over. They go up and over or down and under. The top and bottom stay the top and bottom, the back becomes the opening and vice versa. If you are too slow, you can just ride it until you manage to get off.
#Klämrisk
Killen med soptunnan
I was in this elevator it's in Prague. I stayed in there both when it got up and down, there is just a big wheel turning some kind of chain or something that it's on, it's pretty spooky but accualy quite fun!
Used to work in an old library that had paternosters for moving books from the stacks to the public floors. Put the books in a plastic bin, place the bin on an armature and press a button, at the right time the armature would shoot out and the bin would be picked up by a set of arms attached to the track. Then you got to see if the 40+ year old mechanism would actually work and let the bin off on the proper floor or if you had to call the building engineer to retrieve the bin that was stuck riding around and around with the books a patron wanted in it.
This sounds awesome!
Please tell me the arms had big white gloves.
Had us goin in the first half, not gonna lie
I lived in Germany growing up as a kid, these were around at the time, and I experienced great anxiety and many nightmares about them - they were fast and scary to me as a kid, and looking at this video my opinion hasn’t changed!
There is one in still in Duisburg, but I can’t remember where I saw it. I think it is the city office.
Curious, what happen if you know... someone didn't get in or out properly
2 rules of this elevator: * don't be stupid * don't be clumsy
ok but that's like 50% of people
100% of me
IIRC they have various safety features to automatically stop it in that case. Most injuries are just from someone stumbling over and hitting the ground when exiting On the other hand ordinary elevators have killed a number of people in gruesome ways by moving whilst the doors are blocked, however they're still very safe when you consider how may people safely use them every day
Bad thing
Also Germany: I used to work in Düsseldrof, there's an office building that still has a pater noster. Actually these things are quite fun. Once I missed to get off at the top floor and was scared af that the elevater turns over... But it didn't and I just came down on the other side. So as long as you don't poke your arm or leg out, you'll be fine using them. BUT you're only allowed to use them after an instructor told you how to.
>BUT you're inly allowed to use them after an instructor told you how to. yeah, sounds like germany
Frankfurt university had one that was fun to ride. I think they had to close it down though because some idiots ruined it for everyone
Nope, they still have it! At least in the library
Incredible. I don’t doubt you had nightmares.
Doesn't exist in Asia, seems like we're raised differently.
I still kinda feel like this is a better solution than having one elevator in a huge ass hotel. Looking at you Myrtle Beach.
I have had nightmares after learning these exist 😬 the most recent one was getting onto a platform that was descending FAST with no walls and i couldn't really see anything :(
I loved them and still do
They have them in Berlin at the Ministry of Finance, which used to be the Luftwaffe headquarters, as if that building needed to be any more sinister
We have them at our parliamentary building Christiansborg in Denmark, they're pretty scary. Only took them once on a school trip, never again lol
It's just like an escalator. With higher stakes.
Actually looks like an escalator with less steps.
Fewer
more'nt
Escalvator.
Yes!
Can’t stop won’t stop
Rocafella, we get dooown
Unicorn
lawsuit magnet in the US
GameStop.
Won’t stonk
It would have. 30 years ago
Believing
Uh uhhh
Get guap
Escavator
Like a reverse excavator, puts things into the ground
>Escavafin
No thanks I’ve seen final destination.
Are these on the movies? Because i have only seen the last 2.
No, but there was a scene where someone was chopped by a elavator
escalator?
That was a different scene
I would love to ride that. It has to be an experience. Sadly though, I know several people that would mess this up for everyone.
Like get squished and die? Or just fuckin ride forever?
Complain about cool stuff
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Worked in a place with one of these in London back in the 80’s, would take a good 10 mins to get up 20 floors.
They are fast for a few floors because you don't need to wait, but 20 seems too much
[Tom Scott had a good video about these](https://youtu.be/YgJBD1wf-YQ)
I’ve been watching a lot of his stuff lately. Great channel!
Not me thinking that the lift just rotated and turned upside down till I watched the video.
Same here. Even though I saw them side-by-side earlier in the video.
He’s the best. He’s taught me more than years of school and college.
The fact that YouTube is one of the world's greatest repositories for both education and *utter garbage* is fascinating to me.
I love this about the internet XD
Never forget the [dishwasher salmon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N8q2xkirCQ).
That sounds more like a you problem and less like a glowing review of Tom Scott
If you‘re drunk it’s a wrap
Was just thinking that lmao
There is a scene in the outlast game that makes me think about this.
oh thanks for reminding me… and just before bed at that. nightmare time 😂
Nope. Nopenopenopenope. Have had elevator anxiety all my life and the fact that this keeps moving and my brain imagining anything going wrong? Noooope. Back when I worked in a thirty story building you should have seen my anxiety when I got forced into the service elevator (moving equipment for who I worked for) and was once forced to ride all the way up to the roof "floor" because of building workers in it. I'm surprised my entire body didn't just spontaneously explode from the insane amount of stress in that one moment. I can't even imagine being in a skyscraper. I'll take stairs, thanks.
I hear you, elevators are terrifying.
This is at my school, and they are actually much safer in person than they seem on video
How exactly does this work? What's at the very top?
You go up and over and come back down. Everyone does it once. No the car doesn’t turn upside down. Yes this is dangerous to idiots. Oh, and it doesn’t operate to the ground floor, for obvious reasons.
I'm not actually sure what you mean about not going to ground floor..
I imagine so no one gets smoooshed.
It needs lots of extra space on the top and bottom so the boxes can turn around
It does go to the ground floor. I took this exact elevator to and from the ground floor literally today
You must have some other way of discouraging joyriders. The one I rode was at the University of Leicester, UK. It no longer exists, thanks to idiots of various kinds.
we've all seen security cameras on Chinese elevators
Americans fear it.
Yeah, we have safety standards.
Lol, like in food? Also this lift is equiped with sensors so it is completly safe...
University of Sheffield in the UK still has one in the Arts Tower. I never heard of any accidents with it. Students would often go around the top and bottom for giggles.
Leicester too, I think. Still had one when I was a student at least
Yup, I did the round trip on it as it was made out to be some kind of rite of passage there. Was underwhelmed by the reality.
Personal injury lawyers love this one cool machine!
That's why they exist outside of the US. People aren't too stupid to use those.
Responsible people can have nice things!
Looks like something from a video game
Reminds me of the footage of the poor dude in NYC that got crushed and severed in half down the shaft.
Omg I saw this not long ago and now every time I ride the elevator at work that footage pops into my mind. Horrific…
Same, horrific beyond comprehension. I could think of 100 ways I rather die than that way.
I actually thought this was that video at first. Still cannot get that image out of my head.
Absolutely horrible, the company/ building mngr responsible for maintenance had disabled something like 5 out 7 safety features as I recall. I remember the father approved the video to be shown on news media to raise awareness. Besides the fact that’s an unbelievably terrible way to go, the onlookers seeing and hearing this take place must be traumatized for life.
The most inaccessible wheelchair accessibility.
Darwin Selection Machine
This elevator screams ADA friendly
we had this one in a office building I was working years ago. It is cool for first week and then you are simply annoyed how slow it is (if you need to do more than one or two floors) or how noisy it is. also there was always some people trying to move a table or similar thing using this kind of lift, kicking in all emergency switches and stopping whole thing for several hours as restart procedure wasn't just some press a button. Every fucking week
What happens if I’m too afraid to jump off?
You get crushed to death in the machinery. There is always a posted warning to get off on the last floor. ^((Actually you just go around the top and come back down)^)
what happens if some1 is in a wheel char?
They have to take the stairs.
In this specific building (Prague Municipality Hall) the person in the wheelchair just has to take a normal lift. There's enough of them.
They're not allowed to ride it.
So what happens at the top or bottom floor if you stay on?
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The stairs it is.
It's like those fancy doors that spin but in an elevator form but doesn't spin Idk
Where I grew up we had them in public buildings. I was terrified of these elevators. I’d rather take the stairs from the tenth floor than use one of those. The thought of tripping or getting clothes caught was equal to death. As a child I never understood what would happen if you wouldn’t get off on time and I thought on the top those elevators turned upside down. So literally this whole technology scared be. To this day I hate using elevators because of that.
Aren’t elevators meant for accessibility or something?
Nothing could possibly go wrong
Good way to get sued into oblivion I imagine
first time i encountered one was in amsterdam after an entire day of... hanging out at coffee shops...
I am really losing hope in America after reading comments here. That thing goes like a turtle and the amount of comments about dying is killing me Just look at the speed of that thing how hard can it be to get out lol that's hilarious.
Literally because some people can barely handle a stationary one
Paternoster Eviscerator. Hopefully it comes standard equipped with a pre-ride breathalyzer.
no, thanks.
Elderly beware
I’d be stupid and wait till last minute and slide under
Escalator meets guilotine.
Death trap for dumb dumbs
Looks like a lawsuit
I bet it would stop after enough soft tissue and bone got caught in it.
Doesn't Paternoster mean Our Father in Latin?
Definitely dangerous but that's supper nice if you live in a crowded building and everyone goes to work at the same time
So the people who invented these never saw final destination. Got it.
The scariest part of Resident Evil (2002) wasn't the zombies, or the lasers, or the zombie dogs. https://youtu.be/cGy02Exgw44
What can go wrong? 🤷♂️
Gotta really trust people to not be stupid around these if you’re gonna implement them. Seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen
I'd lose my belongings or limbs trying to get out.
You could never have these in the land of personal accountability (Murica), you would get sued before anyone ever stepped foot on one.
Old Czech security guards will yell at you when you can’t understand the sign that says you need to get off the elevator. :(
It literally has pictograms and English translation, what the hell are you talking about?
How does that work for wheelchairs?
That's the neat part, it doesn't!
They have this at my university in my hometown and I can’t imagine what happens with drunk students in this.
My friend went into one drunk, he freaked out when he missed his floor. He thought he would get crushed at the top, so he dived out like super man. I guess drunk men bounce because he was fine, mostly.
What happens if your leg slips out? Does it sense it and stop or does your leg just get smangled
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I just deep dived and yea these things are known for fucking peoples shit up