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I'm missin something here

Hi,

I've seen storiews about this a few times, but thewy always lack details.

The Wild Elevators of the Future Are Going Up (And Sideways)

They keep going on about how they can reduce the number of elevator shafts because the cars can go sideways.

Firstly, I don't see why this would allow for fewer vertical shafts -- and they never seem to really go into any details.

Also, they will need more room for the horizontal runs ( unless they'll have them running down the hallways ).

They must think it will work because they seem to be spending big money to implement a test building.

Maybe when it's finally in operation they'll show more details. Probably it is the best thing since sliced bread, but I'm not following.

hj

ps In thinking about it, I guess that I can see how they might have several cars placed closely together and move them all -one after another- into a vertical shaft. Then the cars could move aside when they got to their floor.
Might save some space, but it would certainly invite bottlenecks.
 
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