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185 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 1 Mar \ on: Why are elevators so bad? tech
Great question! There's some really interesting stuff about how elevators constrain the height of buildings, but maybe not for the reasons you'd think.
Basically, as buildings get taller they need more elevators for logistical reasons and each elevator takes up a share of the cross sectional area. At some point, you're losing too much floor area to justify going taller.
Do other countries have substantially better elevators?
Do other countries have substantially better elevators?
i used to live in a building that was 66 stories tall and its elevator was much faster than most (even the doors closed quickly).
However, the quick closing doors would occasionally bump into slow-moving residents on their way in, which kind of negated the speed improvements.
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Somehow, the answer to your question has to be that building owners aren't paying a price for having crummy elevators.
There are some interesting factors in real estate that people don't price in when buying, but later realize they don't like. The two examples that come to mind are closet space and basements in residential real estate. I've heard that both of those are declining, because people don't pay attention to them while house hunting.
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good points, people are so fixated on square footage and number of bedrooms that they also neglect hard-to-quantify aspects of a home like who the architect was
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