{"id":47,"date":"2010-01-04T12:32:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T16:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecabelevator.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2010-01-04T12:32:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T16:32:43","slug":"things-you-might-not-know-about-modern-elevators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ecabelevator.com\/blog\/elevator-safety\/things-you-might-not-know-about-modern-elevators\/","title":{"rendered":"Things You Might Not Know about Modern Elevators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might think you know a lot about elevators, but modernization has brought elevator technology a long way.\u00c2\u00a0 Here are some fun &#8216;Did You Know&#8217; facts about elevator safety and design.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Door Close button is there mostly to give passengers the illusion of control. In elevators built since the early &#8217;90s. The button is only enabled in emergency situations with a key held by an authority.<\/li>\n<li>The only known occurence of an elevator car free falling due to a snapped cable (barring fire or structural collapse), was in 1945. A B25 Bomber crashed into the Empire State Building, severing the cables of two elevators. The elevator car on the 75th floor had a woman on it, but she survived due to the 1000 feet of coiled cable of fallen cable below, which lessened the impact.<\/li>\n<li>Elevators are twenty times safer than escalators. There are twenty times more elevators than escalators, but only 1\/3 more accidents.<\/li>\n<li>Elevators are also safer than cars. An average of 26 people die in elevators each year in the U.S. There are 26 car deaths every five hours.<\/li>\n<li>Most people who die in elevators are elevator technicians.<\/li>\n<li>The Otis Elevator Company carries the equivalent of the world&#8217;s population in their elevators every five days.<\/li>\n<li>The New York Marriott was the first to introduce a smart elevator system that assigned passengers to elevators depending on what floor they were heading to.<\/li>\n<li>Elevators used to require a two-man dispatcher\/operator team to function. The advent of navigational buttons rendered those jobs obsolete.<\/li>\n<li>The area required for personal space is 2.3 feet. The average amount on elevators is generally 2 feet.<\/li>\n<li>Elevator hatches are generally bolted shut for safety reasons. In times of elevator crisis, the safest place is inside the elevator.<\/li>\n<li>The myth about jumping just before impact in a falling elevator is just that \u00e2\u20ac\u201d myth. You can&#8217;t jump fast enough to counteract the speed of falling. And you wouldn&#8217;t know when to jump.<\/li>\n<li>Due to the laws of physics, elevators can&#8217;t be any taller than 1700 feet. Hoist ropes become too heavy after that, snapping at 3200 feet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might think you know a lot about elevators, but modernization has brought elevator technology a long way.\u00c2\u00a0 Here are some fun &#8216;Did You Know&#8217; facts about elevator safety and design. The Door Close button is there mostly to give &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ecabelevator.com\/blog\/elevator-safety\/things-you-might-not-know-about-modern-elevators\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[43,59,44],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elevator-safety","tag-elevator-modernization","tag-elevator-safety","tag-modern-elevators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ecabelevator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ecabelevator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ecabelevator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ecabelevator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ecabelevator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ecabelevator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"http:\/\/ecabelevator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ecabelevator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ecabelevator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ecabelevator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}