asdf wrote:

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:01:14 +0100, Martin Underwood wrote:

So, how long until the first lift collision, if cars are able to move
independently in the same shaft, one wonders?

But that "can't happen" because there's "A sophisticated computer program
and sensors [which] monitor the location of the cars and prevents cars still
in motion from crashing into cars that have stopped to accommodate
passengers."

Yeah, right. Would you trust it?

Ever been on the DLR? Did you trust it?

Perhaps the first installation of these new paternoster lifts will
'work' like the early days of the DLR, when the automatic systems
decided - on a fairly frequent basis - that they were on a go slow. In
which case the occupants of such a building would be better off taking
the stairs - so I wonder if this is not some kind of conspiracy to get
the bulging masses to do some excercise?