VIDEO - escalator in Rome subway station set to 11

 
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 10:35 am    Post subject: VIDEO - escalator in Rome subway station set to 11

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:57 pm    Post subject:

just me or does a lot of people wear hoodies in Rome?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 10:22 pm    Post subject:

adkindo wrote:
just me or does a lot of people wear hoodies in Rome?


Does a lot of people wear hoodies, or is our children learning?
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 5:48 am    Post subject:

That escalated quickly.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 8:17 am    Post subject:

vanexelent wrote:
That escalated quickly.


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 8:49 am    Post subject:

I have a fear of escalators. I’m always looking for how I can jump off if necessary.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 8:57 am    Post subject:

couldnt they have just kept running right off and away instead of just piling up at the end
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:38 am    Post subject:

audioaxes wrote:
couldnt they have just kept running right off and away instead of just piling up at the end


that assumes you see it coming.

But think about as soon as it initially happens. All of a sudden, thing speeds up. The ones at the bottom immediately lose their balance and fall. The ones immediately behind them are stuck.

There is no reaction time for the ones that are at the bottom. There's reaction time for the ones at the top as they can see it coming. The ones right at the bottom have no time to react. They just fall over immediately.

If you're right at the bottom as soon as it speeds up and you're able to run, that's Usain Bolt type reaction. Imagine you get near the bottom and you're trying to time your step to step off and all of a sudden, the thing goes from 1x speed to 8x speed. There's no way you can react correctly to run off. You'd lose your balance and fall, or the person behind you will fall into you and now you're on the floor with your foot caught in the escalator.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:52 pm    Post subject:

LongBeachPoly wrote:
audioaxes wrote:
couldnt they have just kept running right off and away instead of just piling up at the end


that assumes you see it coming.

But think about as soon as it initially happens. All of a sudden, thing speeds up. The ones at the bottom immediately lose their balance and fall. The ones immediately behind them are stuck.

There is no reaction time for the ones that are at the bottom. There's reaction time for the ones at the top as they can see it coming. The ones right at the bottom have no time to react. They just fall over immediately.

If you're right at the bottom as soon as it speeds up and you're able to run, that's Usain Bolt type reaction. Imagine you get near the bottom and you're trying to time your step to step off and all of a sudden, the thing goes from 1x speed to 8x speed. There's no way you can react correctly to run off. You'd lose your balance and fall, or the person behind you will fall into you and now you're on the floor with your foot caught in the escalator.


I can guarantee that from my decades of video gaming and playing sports that I would have timed that crap perfectly and jumped off smoothly. At worst, if I had lost my balance I would have done a shoulder roll and immediately bounced back on my feet.

Those people who piled up at the end panicked like (bleep).
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:30 am    Post subject:

methdxman wrote:
LongBeachPoly wrote:
audioaxes wrote:
couldnt they have just kept running right off and away instead of just piling up at the end


that assumes you see it coming.

But think about as soon as it initially happens. All of a sudden, thing speeds up. The ones at the bottom immediately lose their balance and fall. The ones immediately behind them are stuck.

There is no reaction time for the ones that are at the bottom. There's reaction time for the ones at the top as they can see it coming. The ones right at the bottom have no time to react. They just fall over immediately.

If you're right at the bottom as soon as it speeds up and you're able to run, that's Usain Bolt type reaction. Imagine you get near the bottom and you're trying to time your step to step off and all of a sudden, the thing goes from 1x speed to 8x speed. There's no way you can react correctly to run off. You'd lose your balance and fall, or the person behind you will fall into you and now you're on the floor with your foot caught in the escalator.


I can guarantee that from my decades of video gaming and playing sports that I would have timed that crap perfectly and jumped off smoothly. At worst, if I had lost my balance I would have done a shoulder roll and immediately bounced back on my feet.

Those people who piled up at the end panicked like (bleep).
you read my mind, down to the shoulder roll.
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