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It's reasonable to think that a randomly selected elevator is safe enough to ride, while also thinking the one you've just seen have some kind of fault is not.



But why would an elevator that had demonstrated that it had a working safety brake like that be more unsafe than any other elevator?

I trust in Elisha Otis.


A working safety break should be assumed to be the case, surely. Another, unknown fault not so.

All it really tells you is at least one thing is definitely wrong with the lift.


By the way, here is a nice video explaining the mechanism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSjJjKcoNRk




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