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First Cable-Free Elevator Zooms Horizontally and Vertically Using Maglev Tech

by theprop on 6/26/17, 2:18 AM with 19 comments

  • by loeg on 6/26/17, 3:14 AM

    One function of elevator cables is the emergency brake system (fail closed) — hope the power in this mag system is really really redundant!
  • by GenericsMotors on 6/26/17, 1:27 PM

    How does this behave in the event of a power failure?
  • by gcb0 on 6/26/17, 2:26 AM

    how well will credit cards and storage media survive being inside the linear engine "rotor" ?
  • by dwhabcdefg on 6/26/17, 4:21 PM

    I'm curious to learn about the routing algorithms for this -- more precisely, how they differ from 1-d elevator scheduling routines.
  • by digitalshankar on 6/26/17, 10:24 AM

    Going horizontally and vertically in an elevator is like playing side scrolling games but this time you are inside the game! Very exciting!
  • by booblik on 6/26/17, 6:04 AM

    5 times as expensive to install, and looking at all those moving parts probably 10 times as epensive to maintain.