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Smart Elevators Coming to Seattle
coaxial writes "Fujitec has unveiled a new elevator system for Seattle's Metropolitan Park West Tower. The new system uses touchpanels to group users by destination. Riders may wait slightly longer for the proper car, but the overall ride is shortened because the car stops less."
Flamebait my ass. I'm fucking sick of people who bitch about things that are put in place to help our disabled neighbors.
So you are part of the "majority wins, minorities eat it" crowd?
Majority always wins.
Such as the time I saw a blind man attempting to cross a street and got off course and just about killed when the light changed and instead of someone assisting the man, they just raced off the line taking the *cane* out of his hand when they clipped it.
What? I have never heard of such a thing. Where on Earth do you live? I'm guessing one of the top 10 populated cities in the US. I would suggest moving where people are more kind. Why would anybody want to be associated with assholes like that? Wow.
Or the many horn honking engine revving idiots when a wheelchair isn't getting out of the intersection in time... while pedestrians walk right by the struggling chair user.
Example #2 that you are living in the wrong place. The only people I am impatient with on the road are old people that drive slowly*, and dumbasses that can't figure out how to drive and talk on the phone at the same time.
Inside buildings it isn't much better, with people stampede out of elevator shafts and showing *none* of the concern for the blind potential passenger. I say potential because after they stampede out, a stampede goes in, leaving the blind man in the dust.
Example #3. Move
I get so infuriated with the way people treat others that it hurts. Yet... you suggest that the things that help the disabled be *self sufficient* (when clearly the people around them aren't interested in bearing the burden of even a second's courtesy) should not exist because "it inconveniences everyone".
Fight back with random acts of kindness. A friend owes me $300 from back rent over 6 months, and does not call or come by anymore. He sucks with money. I told him what I do, but he is used to fucking up. I'm coming into about $40k from a real estate sale (why someone would pay 1/2mil for my $160k house is beyond me), and I'm going to buy him a car because his got repoed. I found a 4 door car today with a list price of $6.9. I asked if I could get it for $6k, and the sales guy asked what I wanted to do about the taxes titles and other fees. I said, "nothing". My friend should be able to drive out of the place with a 2000 4 door import.
Yet... you suggest that the things that help the disabled be *self sufficient* (when clearly the people around them aren't interested in bearing the burden of even a second's courtesy) should not exist because "it inconveniences everyone".
Hate crimes are already on the books. Call the cops.
Nobody is self sufficient. I never suggested that the wheelchair bound person cut down a tree in his backyard and make himself a wheelchair. If the person is not going to help other people out by working and going out in the world, why does he need a wheelchair anyway?
I just found out last night that my worthless wheelchair bound cousin now is asking his sister for money to get his electricity turned back on. He does not deserve a wheelchair or electricity. He sucks. He does nothing for people, but takes from me and you with our social security, his overpriced almost $2.5k wheelchair that we gave him, and he refuses to do anything. Fuck him. What difference would it make if he just died?
"it inconveniences everyone"
So, what is your suggestion for the wheelchair bound people and blind people in your town?
I guess we could all get together and pay tons of money to install drop down gates at all of the intersections and elevator doors like that have at railroad crossings.
*old people suck. Eskimos ask them to take a nap on the snow when they eat more food than they are worth.