Have you ever seen Chinese people on them ever since those famous incidents with people falling through and dying? They jump over the end of it because they do not want to fall in, fucking weird.
I've seen a bunch of videos of these skiing things going horribly wrong. You'd expect the engineering to be failsafe. I mean, why can the motor even go that fast?
It is speculated that the culprit may have been a voltage fluctuation or brake issues. According to Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development Dimitri Kumsishvili, negotiations about sending independent international experts to investigate the case are underway with several well-known European companies.
That is just the emergency brake failing horribly as it should have tripped the moment it noticed it going in reverse or faster than normal operations. This can all be blamed on bad management trying to save money by cutting maintenance
I have never come close to dying. I have seen people do some real stupid shit. As long as you don't do any of that, your risk is really breaking bones, tearing up knees and stuff like that. Stuff that can usually be repaired although not always cheaply.
Wasn't this like, 5 years ago, now?
Yeh. We go around always expecting our machines to work even when they have clearly gone awry.
Tomorrow you will expect that the elevator and the escalators and the lights and the heat will work; until they don't.
Failure of 'dependable' systems can take unforeseen twists.
Good thing the maintenance teams are all diversity hires! They'll fix them real good.
Have you ever seen Chinese people on them ever since those famous incidents with people falling through and dying? They jump over the end of it because they do not want to fall in, fucking weird.
I've seen a bunch of videos of these skiing things going horribly wrong. You'd expect the engineering to be failsafe. I mean, why can the motor even go that fast?
There are fail-safes, but most of them are disabled after they break and management deciding that spending money to fix it is too expensive.
In the USA I have never seen a lift not be able to be stopped immediately. They do it all the time when people fall in front of the lift.
There is a big bright button to stop it, and there is an attendant there any time it is running.
So IDK what they screwed up here.
"Jump mutherfucker!"
Expert sources blame the flux capacitor,
https://georgianjournal.ge/society/34329-full-story-of-gudauri-ski-lift-accident-chairlift-horror-in-international-media-spotlight.html
That is just the emergency brake failing horribly as it should have tripped the moment it noticed it going in reverse or faster than normal operations. This can all be blamed on bad management trying to save money by cutting maintenance
Never understood the appeal to begin with.
"Go spend weeks in the cold" - for what exactly? Well, to possibly die.
Gotta be crazy. If I'm dying, it has to be somewhere warm and cozy.
It feels good.
I have never come close to dying. I have seen people do some real stupid shit. As long as you don't do any of that, your risk is really breaking bones, tearing up knees and stuff like that. Stuff that can usually be repaired although not always cheaply.