World’s First Cable-Free Elevator Zooms Using Maglev Tech (elevator brahs gtfih)

[John Wang]

The elevator, known as Multi, doesn’t use a cable at all. Instead, it runs on rails that act as linear motors, using magnetic fields to accelerate cabins along their length. When a cabin stops at a floor, those rails can rotate so that it can move off to the left or right rather than continuing up or down.

The linear motor technology could also help side-step a major issue facing current skyscrapers. As Wired UK notes, regular cable designs can only safely rise about 1,600 feet in one continuous stretch, so in tall buildings there have to be numerous lift shafts installed to get people to the top. Multi could solve that, which could free up space and also allow architects to design buildings in different shapes and styles.

Spaghetti sauce

What say you, sherbunnies? How do you feel about cable-less elevators?

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Sweet.
They'll have safety devices in case of failure.

 

[John Wang]

Sweet.
They'll have safety devices in case of failure.

No they won't. They emphasized this greatly during the keynote - "If the magnets fail, those on board will most-likely perish."

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

No they won't. They emphasized this greatly during the keynote - "If the magnets fail, those on board will most-likely perish."

Really, that's a great outlook

 

[John Wang]

Really, that's a great outlook

And they said you cannot have anything metal on your person.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

And they said you cannot have anything metal on your person.

Initial kinks.
The future is coming.

 

[no fat chicks]

Cable elevator bra checking in here.

The magnets will never go mainstream

 

[ssBaldy]

And they said you cannot have anything metal on your person.

wonder what'd happen to a cellphone or a notebook inside such an elevator.

 

[John Wang]

wonder what'd happen to a cellphone or a notebook inside such an elevator.

They say that anything metal may get stuck on a "magnet core section" and it would be like getting your shirt/pants caught on a hook on the wall - it would tear it right out of your pocket and penetrate though the elevator wall

 

[HelloJapan]

TS going @Clippy on us.

 

[Clippy]

TS going @Clippy on us.

Never go full Clippy

 

[ralphc1]

No they won't. They emphasized this greatly during the keynote - "If the magnets fail, those on board will most-likely perish."

Typical German attitude. They are arrogant enough to think their technology will never fail. I've worked on enough German equipment to know that it fails often.

 

[John Wang]

Typical German attitude. They are arrogant enough to think their technology will never fail. I've worked on enough German equipment to know that it fails often.

I know!! They were so cocky at the keynote, making jokes about cable elevator speeds and saying "might as well use the stairs if you're using cables" and said that maglev tech is more of a first-class technology

 

[phipps66]

Wonder how a power outage is handled...

 

[ralphc1]

I know!! They were so cocky at the keynote, making jokes about cable elevator speeds and saying "might as well use the stairs if you're using cables" and said that maglev tech is more of a first-class technology

I'm sure they have some type of brakes that apply if power is lost. Cable technology uses counterweights so they only have to provide enough energy to lift the people in the elevator. These would probably need more energy to lift the empty car than a cable elevator takes to lift a full car.

Do you have a link to the keynote?

 

[John Wang]

Still wouldn't trust this tech yet