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"Going Up" At 45 Mph: Hitachi To Deliver World's Fastest Elevator
Zothecula (1870348) writes "Hitachi has announced that it's installing the world's fastest ultra-high-speed elevators in the Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre skyscraper in Guangzhou, China. Making up two out of a total of 95 elevators in the building, Hitachi says the new lifts use a range of technologies to produce record-breaking speeds of 1,200 m/min while still meeting the necessary standards of safety and comfort."
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I think it would be cool to go 45mph from one floor to the next, provided the elevator is well padded.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
learned this thanks to SimTower.
The problem with building really tall buildings is how to transport enough people up and down without using up the floor space on elevators rather than rentable area. Silly fast elevators may well be worth the money if it results in more silly expensive top-floor rent income.
The west may have stopped with the prestige over practicality thing decades ago, but not in China.
Having the fastest elevators in the country, let alone the world is something to brag and bignote yourself about.
Why do you think they keep building stupidly expensive and impractical shit in Dubai (skyscrapers, artificial island and so forth), it's so the Emir's can have a huge wank.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
That is why floor from glass - it is easy to clean.