You know how lots of elevators tend to fail and plummet to the bottom with people inside. Would putting some type of small parachute in elevators and like a release button to pop open the top safe lives? Is it possible to have a specially designed parachute to glide down the small elevator shaft with all those cables?
Elevator Saftey....will this work?
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Design it and get a Nobel prize. The fall duration is too short under 10-15 stories. It can kill you, though.
They have automatic brakes on the sides, and springs at the bottom of the shaft. The shaft would be too narrow for any parachute to be of any use, not even counting the cables being in the way.
The parking garage elevators at my work don't have the brakes, but they have arms that swing out and grab onto bars set horizontally into the shaft. Works great, but eveyone in the elevator would probably shatter their knees at the sudden stop.
The parking garage elevators at my work don't have the brakes, but they have arms that swing out and grab onto bars set horizontally into the shaft. Works great, but eveyone in the elevator would probably shatter their knees at the sudden stop.
I'm pretty sure that's what the safety breaks are for. I don't think elevators failing and plummeting happens too often.
Well, there wouldn't be enough airflow to fill the parachute to begin with - the elevator car would cut a giant swath exactly the size of the shaft.
They should just put a rocket engine on the bottom that's actuated if the thing starts dropping too fast. 
No. I don't. Elevators are incredibly safe.
Besides, I don't see how your parachute idea could work even if you tried. The shaft would be waaaaay to narrow for any useful size of parachute.
Originally posted by: Brutuskend
They should just put a rocket engine on the bottom that's actuated if the thing starts dropping too fast.
Yeah, then we could hack it and launch out of the building like on Willy Wonka!!!
Originally posted by: DurocShark
Originally posted by: Brutuskend
They should just put a rocket engine on the bottom that's actuated if the thing starts dropping too fast.
Yeah, then we could hack it and launch out of the building like on Willy Wonka!!!
Then you would need the parachute.
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Let's forget for a moment that there are not "lots of elevators tend to fail and plummet to the bottom with people inside" and that elevators are made is such a way that this happening is virtually impossible.
Instead, let's look at your parachute idea.
Think about this for a moment, an elevator fills the shaft in which it operates. If it were to fall, it would create a suction behind it. There would be no air to fill this parachute as the air trailing the elevator would be following the elevator at it's same rate of decent.
Instead, let's look at your parachute idea.
Think about this for a moment, an elevator fills the shaft in which it operates. If it were to fall, it would create a suction behind it. There would be no air to fill this parachute as the air trailing the elevator would be following the elevator at it's same rate of decent.
I think big springs in a grid pattern fixed to the bottom of the shaft would work. The car will come shooting down and kind bounce to a stop.
Dig a tunnel at the bottom of the shaft that gently curves and changes the downward direction to a horizontal direction.
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