13 Rogue ski lift goes goes full-speed backwards in Gudauri, Georgia - "Yet another reason never to go skiing" (twitter.com) posted 3 years ago by xleb2 3 years ago by xleb2 +13 / -0 13 comments share 13 comments share save hide report block hide replies
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.