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I have just had an experience with an elevator that confirmed all my guide’s loathing. It was a platform inside a metal shaft. No walls. No ceiling. Push button, floor goes up or down, walls slide past.

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Lynne Ann Morse's avatar Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social
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I find myself wondering if this would be up to code in any other jurisdictions...

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Kingfisher & Wombat's avatar Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com
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You have to hold the button down on a central panel to move the floor, until a door appears in one of the walls and slides into position. If you lean or exert too much pressure on the panel, this apparently activates the emergency stop.

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Nigel Bell's avatar Nigel Bell @nigel63.bsky.social
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😧

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K.L. Neidecker's avatar K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.bsky.social
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This is basically a video game elevator. I’m both happy and disturbed to know the “wall-less, ceiling-less vertical platform” video game elevator actually exists…

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Ted's avatar Ted @theodoric.bsky.social
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That is…very bad for anyone with balance issues.

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PolyChrome 's avatar PolyChrome @jenstone.bsky.social
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😵‍💫

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Lokira Hunter's avatar Lokira Hunter @lokira.bsky.social
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Oh, that was probably what Norway calls a „Løfteplatform“, going very slowly and probably put in when they realized they’d forgotten disability access 🙈 (Or the architect used it as a design statement, which would be even more 🤦🏻 What’s the architects name, btw? )

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