Why Movies Are Wrong About Elevator Free Falls - Cheddar Explains

[@davidroddick91]

I remember on an episode of Mythbusters they were testing the myth of jumping during an elevator freefall, and they had to use a very old elevator -- far less sophisticated than any modern elevator -- in an abandoned building that was literally falling apart; and they STILL had to disconnect the safety mechanism to get it to fall.

[@LzysGraphics]

David Roddick haha... Did they mention the fact that modern elevators are extremely safe?

[@tz8785]

Didn't they also mention that this disconnection was scarily simple?

[@raymiller1383]

Yes, a a person who understands the mechanisms for elevator safety systems could in theory bypass those systems. It would take a while,

[@KasumiRINA]

@@raymiller1383 on practice, it would also be a very pointless terrorist attack with very little casualties and too much bother and security to bypass... as opposed to running a truck into a crowd or something.

[@kenthonggo3041]

www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/12/10/two-die-south-jakarta-elevator-crash.html 2015, elevator free fall in Nestle Building (indonesia)

[@joelcrafter43]

I love how elevators are so safe that what she referred to as a "catastrophe" all the people survived with minor injuries.

[@Shrek_Has_Covid19]

maybe she sounds pissed off because they didn't die

[@lewiswilson75]

They are literally living a final destination movie, death is after them

[@chrisjames5254]

You have zero idea what your talking about, I install these for the largest elevator company in the world and you have better chance of getting hurt slipping while walking out your home. ONLY problem is building owners who cut cost and dont.maintain

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

Try getting out of an elevator that is what kills you

[@smitajky]

Except that in the design with the ratchets the safety was built in. It seems incredible that someone was able to turn off all the safety systems yet the elevator still was able to work. Then falls a large distance without any automatic safety device stepping in. Surely this is a warning that would not be tolerated in the aviation industry. "Yes it fell out of the sky and plummeted to earth but hey everyone survived. What's the big deal"?

[@JustSomeYTuser]

The narrator sounds like she's passing gossips about elevators ''like hollywood is like literally lying to you"

[@Ibhenriksen]

She sounds like a watchmojo clone

[@____-pb1lg]

@@Ibhenriksen her voice is much better than watchmojo's

[@itslevie]

P S literally 40 seconds into the video I had to stop

[@callmesoul1468]

True

[@leonwallace8646]

Your comment made my day

[@jodajoda2863]

"Elevators are safer than cars." I guess I should stop driving my car up a flight of stairs to get to my apartment.

[@juoig7799]

Lol

[@Itty-Bitty-Freakitty]

guess you never been russia

[@nonamernobrainer846]

That's.. That's not funny. At all

[@aaroncousins4750]

@@nonamernobrainer846 it made me laugh

[@eagletransportusa]

@@nonamernobrainer846 it really is he gives people rides up the stairs he is such a nice guy

[@ezequielviana3687]

"Hollywood is lying to you" Oh wow I can't believe that Hollywood would lie to me

[@SAOrules]

I no rite? Next thing you’ll be telling me is water is wet!!

[@deletedaccount1929]

@@SAOrules Or that fire is hot!!1!

[@Seras99]

Well no shit Sherlock.

[@cheddar]

Believe it or not! lolz

[@ezequielviana3687]

Cheddar lolzzz

[@Housewarmin]

She sounds like she’s learning as she reading.

[@DutchBane]

Vocal fry makes you dumber

[@egodeosum]

@@DutchBane *sound dumber right?

[@orlandotouristtraps7410]

She is a voice talent. She didn't write this and may not even comprehend it. But I think she does a fine job. Voice talents often work at home and just get a script in their email and perform the reading on their computer and email it back. I don't know if this is the case with this woman but the vast majority of voice talents operate this way. She will then likely get $50 for each reading.

[@RealVidjag]

@@orlandotouristtraps7410 tl;dr she didn't write the script and she was actually learning

[@LillmillY1]

Right? Couldn't finish it

[@BitcoinMotorist]

In movies they usually have spikes at the top and bottom of the shaft

[@JacobHollis96]

Not to mention that as soon as elevators hit the bottom of the shaft they explode in a ball of fire.

[@MrEngineer20051]

what the hell

[@bp_cherryblossomtree723]

Bitcoin Motorist IKR. Then everything explodes

[@KatzRool]

Using "y'all" and implying you're not American in the same comment is pretty repulsive.

[@barmiro]

@@KatzRool Speaking English and implying you're a sovereign country is worse imo

[@badbirdkc]

Narrator: Elevators can't fall like in the movies. Also Narrator: Describes an incident in which an elevator falls like in the movies.

[@nobody2021]

I would very much like them to define "plunged", because if it really did go into a terminal velocity free fall like in a movie then I find it hard to believe that everyone survived with only minor injuries

[@parentpatrol2752]

You don't pay attention, do you?

[@devarain]

But all passager still alive even fall from high floor, and the elevator not exploded like in movies

[@__________________________Fred]

​@@nobody2021 She said it stoped on the 11th but doesn't say how it stopped. It must have been somewhat sudden, otherwise they wouldn't have had injuries. If it went to the bottom then they probably would have died?

[@nearlimitsound6631]

Elevators can't freefall for another reason... and that is air pressure... if a elevator had no safety features and fell, it still wouldn't completely be a free fall... it would be slowed down by the air pressure building up in the elevator shaft as it's falling down, which would slow down the elevator. It would be very uncomfortable, since it would be going at a decent speed, you would most likely be injured, but it should be slowed down enough for you to not die. So even without all the other safety features you would probably not die if a elevator fell... of-course this doesn't count for elevators that aren't enclosed in a elevator shaft... :p

[@ddharveyy]

It sounds like she's asking a question at the end of every sentence

[@mfaizsyahmi]

It's caled upspeak, and I agree with you it's annoying A video about upspeak: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2TSYZ2wZ9SWedk

[@HenryT]

@@mfaizsyahmi It is.

[@cheddar]

Does she?

[@HenryT]

Cheddar Unfortunately, yes.

[@deus_ex_machina_]

@@HenryT It was a joke. OP complained that all her sentences ended like a question, and Cheddar smartly responded with an actual question.

[@lnception]

I've always been scared an elevator would break into my house and kill me in my sleep, but this went unaddressed in your video.

[@LoVeforever650]

why does every sentence sound like a question?

[@DocEtan]

Because the narrator is a valley girl

[@MegaRudeBoy69]

It's the terrible new inflexion that has taken over America. That's why Hollywood uses English actors as Americans, these days.

[@martinhorvath4117]

Yeah, I noticed that too. Like, you can't talk normally, instead of this belittling voice?

[@James-wi9un]

Look up 'uptalk'. Its an affectation used by a lot of women to seem cute and nonthreatening

[@yacetube]

I guess that's what happens whith modern education, where school habits become part of the new adult to be, with a bigger individuality and rejection of previous generations, these past decades, than before ... Could it be a product of that ? Individualism, more disdain for parents and elders, disdain for "educated" and old-fashioned or "posh" or whatever adulty behaviour? What do you think? To me, it sounds like adults talking as they were teenagers. Same happens in my country, with other kind of accent... sounds teenage, lot of "lik you know like" expressions and slang... in full grown ups. Like, acting smart i not a thing anymore. Well, ... also, that could explain this 7th grade bully-President ...

[@YourselfAndEye]

This girl sounds personally offended that people are afraid of elevators

[@Aviator727]

yea i’m afraid of it but ig i feel a lil better

[@Pwn3dbyth3n00b]

Elevators falling isnt what scares me about elevators. Its elevators that fall or move when people are walking out the door. I thought it only happened on China but recently in NYC someone was crushed by an elevator going down wedging him with the floor and the elevator.

[@SianaGearz]

Pretty common in Russia. Happens if you bypass the pesky safety systems which prevent the elevator from working if they have any doubt at all.

[@beedslolkuntus2070]

It's just cheaply made lifts

[@skellingtonMCR]

This happened to me like a month ago in California. We got in the elevator to go up, but it started moving upwards before the door closed. It only moved like an inch, but we immediately hit that door open button and got off of it lol.

[@sonic2batt]

@@skellingtonMCR sometimes if there's a significant amount of weight that enters the elevator and stretches the cables, the elevator will move up an inch or so to keep it level with the floor

[@skellingtonMCR]

@@sonic2batt I don't think that was the case here though. When it moved up, it was no longer level with the floor. And there were only two of us in an elevator that had a max weight capacity far above our combined weight.

[@imaginekudryavka9485]

I have to say, that something being "just a human error" isn't much of a consolation, when that's one of your biggest fears. A lot of things are safe in perfect conditions, and only fail because of human intervention, or rather, usually, lack thereof. And I even live in a country where regulations are strict, and therefore such accidents are less commonplace. But it only takes one screw up. In a perfect world, all these accidents could be prevented (most rollercoaster accidents can be attributed to this). But maybe some things need to be idiot-proof. Ooor.. maybe I need to learn to be less of a control freak and accept that all man-made things carry a certain risk (Note: I am not at all afraid of elevators)

[@barkon]

Wondering how the elevator descends through the ratchet brakes in normal descents? That wasn't mentioned.

[@WellCookedPotatoes]

barkon I totally 100% understand this sentence

[@joshuamaniak9546]

Because Cheddar got it wrong. The rope of the elevator was attached to a bar; under normal operation the weight of the elevator kept the bar disengaged. If the rope was to break, the bar would lose all tension and snap out to catch the ratchets.

[@saisubdivision3941]

Joshua Maniak this is true

[@cruelllangelll]

barkon the ratchet breaks are placed in the very bottom of the elevator shaft.

[@karlfasselt8230]

Wut

[@imkeepingitblank]

Thanks to everyone that pointed out the narration, now I can’t finish the vid

[@jacobshirley3457]

I feel sorry for Ali, getting roasted from the entire youtube comment section.

[@zivex5860]

Jacob Shirley her voice doesn’t work with these videos

[@FrVitoBe]

I still can't get over the Hollywood lied to me

[@zivex5860]

@Lulu Jones or because she's bad at her job

[@MrNuubstar]

The narrator seems more suitable for telling stories instead of informative information.

[@JS_288]

But it’s more interesting

[@MuffinGamingMC]

I prefer uninformative uninformation

[@BrunoNeureiter]

Because she's a woman!?

[@chillout1984]

@@BrunoNeureiter No, because she talks in a very annoying way.

[@Mtaalas]

"More common place something is, less we understand how it works."... this is really good quote... I will steal that! :D

[@amy5620]

The narration is strange, there is no natural flow and it sounds choppy af. I have noticed that your channel often has a strange narration for the videos

[@EduardoGonzalez-bm1mk]

It’s a google translation from Russian to English for example .

[@palacinkasmarmeladou]

That's because they are reading it. There's not many people who can read without the monotone sound. It gets automatic after reading long articles.

[@beans6765]

I like her voice personally! I don't see a problem with it. I choose to focus on the information and not her voice.

[@Rickyp0123]

I started watching cheddar yesterday and so many comment sections are roasting the narrators. I'm surprised.

[@nic12344]

@@beans6765 How can you not focus on her horrible voice? I want to rip my ears off my skull so I never hear that shit again!!!

[@tammijatti9164]

I have a phobia about elevators. I no longer have a valid reason for that phobia. This video actually helped me today.

[@CampElk]

The narrators uptalk is a distraction.

[@shahmask]

Very irritating. Second Cheddar video i've watched this week like that. I stopped watching/listening to VOX and NPR because of this garbage style of narration.

[@MinesAGuinness]

Oh my, how would you cope in Australia or my neck of the woods in South east England, where uptalk has been a natural part of speech for centuries? What you mean is you find it distracting, because you've trained yourself to dislike and denigrate that kind of 'valley girl' accent as a signifier of stupidity. Surely, the film Clueless taught you the error of that assumption? :-) But it should be rather obvious that this video isn't really intended for you, but for younger children at primary age. The way I speak with a class is quite different to my everyday speech patterns, and I emulate a number of similar inflections to those that this narrator is using to keep the children focused upon my voice and hanging on for a question, especially if an explanation is a few minutes long. So, very much not a distraction for the age range it is intended for.

[@myleg7223]

MinesAGuinness my fucking leg

[@DutchBane]

The vocal fry is unbearable

[@raka7304]

@@MinesAGuinness trust me no one cares

[@HarrisArtz]

2:59 why does it sound like you're about to cry?

[@spacedog7513]

Is the narrator ok? she sounds like she's crying.

[@shahmask]

I wish she was just sobbing into the microphone like those TikTok videos. It'd be less irritating.

[@apexone5502]

Chad backed out of taking her to the prom, so of course she sounds like she is crying, you uncaring brute! 😾

[@GraveDiggerIII]

2:59

[@pauljustin9583]

@@GraveDiggerIII Wow. Awesome.

[@hermanrobak1285]

@@GraveDiggerIII Now I'm almost certain she has some vocal injury. Ouch!

[@TheVeganTravelShow]

Thanks for creating the only elevator explanation video on the internet that makes sense.

[@keco185]

“It’s impossible to happen”. ... proceeds to give an example of it happening

[@joelcrafter43]

Yeah but at the same time it was the worst possible scenario with the safety systems manually disabled and even then everyone survived with minor injuries.

[@crugergallaudet7061]

Exactly!!!!

[@sjakila]

Yeah, but she defended that really well: it was because of human error. So, not scary at all. 😅🤣

[@caseymichel1113]

I never like hearing people say anything is “impossible”

[@kamusgold3455]

@@caseymichel1113 It is impossible that I don’t comment this because I’m about to put this comment in the comment section

[@Sirhc7000]

There’s something about her cadence that’s really bugging me....

[@furrycircuitry2378]

Valley girl accent, i mean it sounds alright until it doesn't. Wish we switched back to continental accents for narrations like these

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Elevators without elevator music aren’t actual elevators

[@ruripapi]

*only in North Korea*

[@shimeih2287]

I've always noticed the name Otis on elevators but never really thought of how big the company is. Zimbabwe, china , South Africa, USA, Japan, UK, Australia. I've seen elevators with that name. Wow🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@Double_T_G]

I'm more afraid of something going wrong with the door. Either it closing on me, or the elevator dropping as I'm walking through it crushing me against the floor.

[@MegaJoshie1]

There’s really no need to worry I’ve never had an elevator door fail to detected something in the way. Plus they only apply a certain amount of force whilst trying to close if it has to exceed that force to close it will just stay open

[@seraphina985]

@@MegaJoshie1 Indeed there is an interlock such that the brake on the car is unable to be released while the doors are open, granted this can be overridden while the elevator is in maintenance mode (As sometimes engineers need to be able to move the car while having access to the shaft during maintenance) but with more modern elevators this renders all passenger control panels and call buttons inactive without a maintenance key etc.

[@timarigirl32]

Josh Francis elevators closing in people and killing them happen pretty often in big cities and other areas. There have been some questionable elevators I’ve ridden in NYC and a few close calls. Just be careful because things like that happen. Thankfully it hasn’t been your experience or my own.

[@mineborders]

Guess you guys avoided ever watching /r/watchpeopledie, or stumbling upon a bestgore video, elevators in china tend to cut people in half, elevators there can being descending while the door is still open, there are also cases when the doors open while the elevator isn't in place, it is horrifying, and caused by companies cutting costs by not implementing all the safety measures, but you won't hear about it on mainstream media mainly because these accidents are heavily censored.

[@dafrandle]

@@seraphina985 to bad the key control on most elevator keys is garbage, and sometimes the access panels dont even have a lock on them You can buy fire service keys on ebay for like 10 bucks

[@Dj_Nizzo]

I’ve always trusted elevators until the 8:50 mark: “Maintenance workers turned off the safety chain to do maintenance, and forgot to turn it back on; resulting in catastrophe”. Looks like leg day is every day now... sigh...

[@nyguesswho]

A safety string cannot be "turned off", you would need to jump various parts of the safety string out, at once. Door locks and gate switches used to be a big issue, but now municipalities like NYC have door lock monitoring, meaning the door locks cannot be jumped out - NYC elevator mechanic

[@patricksifmas]

Most lifts nowadays must have safety chain bypassing switches (with other words switches to control the door locks on the doors, allowing the lift to run with the door open. Most lift controllers when this is done, lock out the lift and it is only usable on cartop and/or control cabinet inspection mode (controls that move the lift for maintenance, and locking out the lift.)

[@kah1i1]

Sounds like an elevator paid them to make this 👀👀

[@shahmask]

Like those brakes are pinching her at the end of every sentence.

[@tiedough7481]

Hoaxavater

[@tianaallie4908]

I was thinking the exact same thing

[@francesyoungperson1882]

I'm Sure it is a Paid Announcement, But I guess how Else wud they defend their Product if negative Statements are out on them??? THIS IS WHY REAL TRUTH IS SOoo Important to US ALL!!!!! ELSE A LOT OF TMES WHO , Can discern Truth from LIES, But those whom G👑D gives Discernment! G👑D doesn't LIE!! THE WORLD BELONGS 2 HIM; HE DOES AS HE WILL! AND G👑D Stands 4 GOOD, HHME LOVES US ALL💜🌹🏆 Amen Well in A Highrise That tall, My thoughts Are If I Ever Hav the Pleasure of riding 1 that tall, I'M SURE GOI G TO SAY A PRA🙏ER B4 GETTING ON😁😆😅🤣😂 G👑D BLESS YOU ALL, Love you💋💘

[@ethanaerni8938]

Otis paid?!

[@Photoelectric_Elevators]

Despite what 98% of the comments saying about the narrator, The facts you have stated make perfect sense and I understand why Elevators are safer than Escalators. The movies just try to make it have more action even for elevator scenes.

[@cwtrain]

"Hollywood is lying to you." "No!"

[@LOproductions1]

Wow this is scary. I was working as an Electrician in the John Hancock building in 2018 but was laid off in October. Had I stayed there another month I may have been on that Elevator!

[@linkheroofwinds]

Once, when my brother and I were young, he was leaning against some elevator doors when they suddenly opened without the elevator actually being there. He didn't fall thankfully, but I still avoid elevators because of how much that scared me

[@nelsonahlvik6650]

That is super rare and only happens if someone has opened the shaft door with a key and not closed it properly.

[@MannyBlaaze]

@@nelsonahlvik6650 do you work with elevators? Curious

[@nelsonahlvik6650]

@@MannyBlaaze No, but I am a huge fan of them, and I have done a lot of research about how they work and what kind of safety systems are in place.

[@samnemo5928]

About 12,000 people die from falling down stairs every year Your perception of danger is messed up

[@jaydottt_transitfanner]

Always remember, if you're in an elevator and the floor counter says something like "OK" and it's flashing and make it look like something is malfunctioning, it's most likely not. I don't know why it does that, but it's most likely not. Wait at least 5 minutes before calling the rescue team if the elevator won't budge or open its doors.

[@attorneyrobert]

Videos about elevators have their ups and downs. But elevator humor works on many levels.

[@joestrike8537]

The Pun Police are on their way to lock you up for life for that - in a rickety, verge of collapse elevator!

[@Movie_Games]

With this narrator it feels like the title of this video should be "Hey Idiot, This is Why Elevators Are Safe"

[@iver7981]

I really like the channel and it's videos but I physically can't listen to this narration. There are so many wired stops in the middle of the sentence. Why?

[@dparnass]

I was an Elevator tech in the Navy this video is very accurate.

[@dnyalslg]

This has been one of the most oddly reassuring KZbin videos I’ve ever watched.

[@audvidgeek]

The same holds true with air brakes in Hollywood. Few people realize that air brakes on trucks, trains, etc are applied when there is no pressure, and release when they are pressurized. Most movies and TV shows show a vehicle with a severed air brake hose careening out of control as it picks up speed with nothing to stop it. The exact opposite would occur though if a hose is severed...The vehicle would abruptly stop. You can thank George Westinghouse for this invention as well, over 120 years ago!

[@aidenarmstrong2863]

She sounds like “the volume on this bus is UNAcceptABLE”

[@simona6600]

u mean “astronomical”

[@alexnather7614]

Astronomical not unacceptable

[@neonbunnies9596]

I like how Cheddar uses an "elevator fall" from Skyscraper, whe the whole point of the elevator falling was to being the people inside to safety by passing though the fire

[@ALEX-rl7bo]

But getting stuck still sucks.

[@demagab]

Never got stuck in one

[@hero_32_russia]

@@demagab typical first world liver

[@jeffreychen5130]

better than not being alive

[@ihatealgebra2431]

@@hero_32_russia listen, I'm living in a 3rd world country and I can tell you that a 1st word elevator isnt any better and they are from the same well known companies such as Schindler or Otis

[@KasumiRINA]

@@ihatealgebra2431 it's the second world that is the problem, 3rd world countries got western made lifts, we had some Soviet leg-grabber, up and down murderer with fatality ones...

[@ctbt1832]

Wait a minute. In Chicago a eleven drop from somewhere on the 90 floor to the 11. All because of 1 cable, what happened to the other cables and what happened to the elevator governor break

[@kajamas]

why is the background at 6:04 a map of paris tho

[@____-pb1lg]

I think they always use this as background

[@cheddar]

The map background is part of our design package for this series. Purely stylistic. I see it's throwing people off a bit though...

[@felipecarvalho7680]

@@cheddar No worries. The problem is that it's a very recognizable map so it may lead people to assume the content of the video is somewhat Paris/France related when in fact it's not :/ Maybe using a more random map could work. Your videos are still great and informative nonetheless! :)

[@stefm.w.3640]

@@cheddar i like it

[@kajamas]

@@cheddar I actually like it! I just wondered why so thanks :)

[@milzamk.basith4399]

Don't forget the air pressure when an elevator falls quickly, it only have a narrow space around them so that the air will slow down the elevator

[@callmesoul1468]

Why is she talking like that?

[@Aawsomeguy]

You are 100% totally correct. With all the modern safety devices on passenger elevators now days the chance of a modern elevator falling is slim. Plus they are required to be periodically inspected by a elevator maintenance technician.

[@fastfiddler1625]

Thanks for elevating my understanding.

[@williamhuang8309]

Nice pun!

[@immortalsun]

This video helps my claustrophobia a little. I’ve been terrified of elevators my whole life, and films are partly to blame for that.

[@Drow6-y9r]

someone has died from a modern elevator when he walked out and cable snapped. His death is actually on youtube. My condolences to his family

[@juoig7799]

There was a news story where a boy was waiting for his dad in a lift, and he held the doors, causing it to enter nudge mode. He then used an umbrella to try to reopen the doors, but it didn't work, since the lift disabled its beam sensor. Then the umbrella got stuck and caused the lit to free-fall. What really happened was that the doors were closed enough to connect the safety circuit, and the lift started moving, and since the building had lots of floors, the lift moved fast. If it really free-falled, it would have gone up thanks to the counterweight, but the emergency brake would be applied because of the safety mechanism described in this video.

[@golubhimself]

Having watched this some time ago I've been stuck in an elevator today. My friends would have panicked and be worried more than they should have I not told them about the multiple safety mechanisms of elevators So thanks Cheddar

[@SailorYuki]

My ex-stepdad is an elevator engineer. He builds and designs elevators for a living. He get's all pissed off every times he sees an elevator fall, bet in a movie or on tv. "That's impossible" he shouts, then proceeds to hold a lecture of how elevators work and all the fancy features of modern elevators. Btw, elevators are not airtight, you can't run out of oxygen should you be trapped in one. To this day I still can't watch Speed without hearing his lecture in my head.

[@SirXer]

This was SO interesting and extremely fascinating! I never knew any of this, and wow does it make me view elevators differently.

[@derrickmwesigwa9398]

The impact of the lock-down has started to kick-in, check how much the narrator's voice and spirit have changed

[@StefanBacon]

I love how casually gloss over that safety systems can just be turned off, and ignore the ways people actually die in elevator accidents.

[@kaylaknott9541]

The only people that really die in elevator accidents are workers who’ve turned off the safety systems and are working

[@StefanBacon]

@@kaylaknott9541 That's not true, many people who don't know maintenance is underway are killed by repair workers who have jumped out interlocks.

[@globalsolidarity55]

The way an elevator guy explained it to us on a high rise reno was tHt the elevator was more likely to fall up than down. Something to do with counter weights

[@arigm86]

Forgot to turn the safety chain back on... That's very reassuring 😅

[@nexpar7439]

However; more often, automobile drives forget to not drive drunk, that's even more reassuring.

[@lelouchunderground]

In the last day of 2019 in Brazil a family died because the elevator fell from the ninth floor. It's rare, but may happen.

[@sammy2745]

you’re more likely to die by walking down stairs. anyway, rip

[@masterofpureawesome]

People at the 1853 world fair in New York: Poggers! Elevators are now safe, crab rave!

[@fredspofford]

Nobody knows what that shit means. Speak non-virgin when you're in public!

[@plant5875]

@@fredspofford youre mom

[@TheRepublicOfJohn]

Having worked in high-rise elevator shafts, and knowing and working alongside at least a dozen elevator constructors, I would have no problem standing in an elevator car at the top of an elevator shaft while the cables were cut. Theyre soooooo safe.

[@shimeih2287]

Cheddar: Holywood is lying to you Me: WOW. I never knew😲

[@Radnugget]

There was an elevator at my college that failed once but the person only got moderately injured. I don't think ive ever heard of a person dying because of an elevator.

[@winstonpx]

Why did I see Otis' invention as a centipede crawing along the elevator lol

[@morenofranco9235]

Thanks, Ali, for a great presentation. I have always been curious about "stuff". So when I see workmen working on something, I stop and watch and ask questions. I found out all about this when I was 11. In 1964. ))

[@Spgxg]

1:49 is that Wolverine?

[@Dj_Nizzo]

And he’s totally scoffing at it like “Pfff, I’ve got cooler ratchet spikes in my fists”

[@TheRyderShotgunn]

seeing the elevator brake being displayed must have been like watching someone drive a car full speed right into a wall and walk out without even needing to readjust his clothing

[@didieranastaseleon8146]

She's clearly narrating from home

[@benefactionhindrance]

( ͡° COVI ͜ʖ D-19 ͡°)

[@Apollo101A]

Yoo chill 🤣

[@djvidual8288]

This really cured a little my fear of elevators. I absolutely hate using them at work, because they are old and got stuck a lot in the past.

[@mohammadismail5852]

Nobody died from a fallen elevator? I remember the news few months ago about a NewYork man who got his head cut off by a fallen elevator, which was also seen on CCTV

[@Dust_in]

It wasn't a free falling elevator.

[@TekiKekai]

she specifically said falling from a snapped cable

[@Liggliluff]

Was it Cheddar or another channel who said CCTV stood for "closed captioning TV"

[@alfiekelly3852]

@@Liggliluff It was cheddar

[@justaloe]

I've never in my life heard of anyone dying from being inside a falling elevator. I didn't even need this video to tell me that but I'm glad they made it anyway.

[@CutCopyPastefy]

Please stop trying to sound dramatic with this unnatural inflection on every single sentence. It's so repetitive and it made me stop watching.

[@Ham549]

2:13 the brake was actually on top of the car.

[@peachylady]

Why do all of your narrators either sound like valley girls or surfer bros?

[@unknown-ug5zd]

thank you so much for telling me this, I was afraid of elevators but after I watched your video I think I can stop worrying to much about them just falling down and killing me

[@S1D3KICK]

When the video is still at 480p lol

[@akselhansen304]

U can't change it higher either?

[@S1D3KICK]

@@akselhansen304 Nope.

[@apexone5502]

I had to look at the date of the video. You'd think a company like Cheddar would go with higher resolutions the options are available these days.

[@amerull3413]

@@apexone5502 i think it's youtube that's doing it.

[@mahnas92]

@@amerull3413 to save bandwith during increased streaming during stay-at-home corona, Netflix, KZbin and other services reduced the quality of their services www.theverge.com/2020/3/20/21187930/youtube-reduces-streaming-quality-european-union-coronavirus-bandwidth-internet-traffic

[@thescho7744]

If youre in an elevator that falls and hits the shock absorbers at the bottom, are you better off lying down or standing up when the impact happens?

[@navarruh]

I imagine standing since that's how you're supposed to be in the first place. But great question.

[@maxdzmi2453]

"it's probably not going to happen" Thanks but no thanks. I'll take the stairs to the 95th floor

[@AdamSmith-gs2dv]

2:16 this is the same system they use on roller coasters with a chain or cable lift, the track has a series of teeth and the train has a metal bar that rolls over them as the train goes up the lift hill. If the chain or cable snaps the train rolls backwards until the bar on the train can't make it over the next set of teeth which is when the train stops. This is also why you here the clack noises from a lift hill, it's the metal bar on the train going over the teeth and slamming down in the groves.

[@DoomFinger511]

Damn, I got here so early the video is still in 480p

[@zeniq_]

DoomFinger511 Still 480p!

[@paulheap1982]

Still is.

[@yejunmybeloved3356]

still is

[@nexpar7439]

@@yejunmybeloved3356 It's 2024 and it's still 480...

[@timberwolfe1645]

Great Video!!! My only problem is the comparison of elevators and escalators as Modes of Transportation. I get that they "move people" but they shouldn't be compared to things like cars.

[@uNr3al111]

Does she think KZbin is an elementary school?

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Well there is a lot ignorant people here...

[@MinesAGuinness]

Do you think that, possibly, that is exactly the age range she is making this video for? After all, you are a grown adult: you should have already known how a lift works without having to come to watch this video.

[@dinethrukshan3302]

MinesAGuinness I mean uhh... it could be that he has searched for this... Plus the narrator doesn’t seem to be in a good mood... so dw she’ll do better next time :)

[@MinesAGuinness]

@@dinethrukshan3302 Frogs were more logical in my day. If the OP was actively searching for 'how lifts work' with no prior knowledge, then this video is perfectly adequate as an introduction. Your second point is conjecture: I detect no annoyance in the presenter's tone whatsoever. She has a pronounced 'Valley' accent, whose rising and falling cadences (upspeak) may simply fool your ear if you are unfamiliar with it in your own accent.

[@joejoemojoejoe3160]

Period

[@christopherrto]

I just looked on Wikipedia, and there are several people who have died from falling elevators. Many deaths are from planes/trains damaging elevators, many more in construction/mining elevators, several having severed cables. So what about a traditional cable elevator in a public setting? Looks like 7 people died in 1989 in a hospital in Spain when the cables disconnected from the cabin and the elevator freefell to the bottom. Safety brakes failed to engage. In 1903 an elevator fell 6 stories at the Donnelly Building in Pittsburgh when the cable was overloaded and snapped. Another in 1958 at a dam in Australia, cable snapped, killing 4. 1932 in Chicago, cable snapped killing 3 and injuring 7. Clarendon Building in NYC in 1920, cable snapped killing 2 and injuring 16. In 2018 at the John Hancock Center in Chicago, the elevator fell 84 stories but stopped before hitting the bottom, after the cable snapped, and was trapped behind concrete walls. Had the elevator started falling 11 floors sooner might have been a different story. Even if it was possibly caused by technician error, it's was still a nearly fatal accident from cable failure. The Calgary Tower in Calgary Alberta Canada free fell after cables broke, but the brakes stopped them. Then the brakes were released and they only stopped the second time because the cables tangled in the pulley system. So I'll go ahead and say that "no one dying" in a cable elevator isn't true, and even if you narrow the time period it's largely thanks to luck. Also 236BC to 1820AD is less than 2000 years, not over.

[@oriwan3786]

dear audio commentator if you don't like your job than let somebody else on the microphone ...

[@shahmask]

Thank you. She is so irritating.

[@fredspofford]

Yeah cause everybody else likes their job!

[@g-alicenine]

Was in an elevator today that had a fall of like 1 meter, then it used it's brakes but for 10 to 15 minutes it was slowly descending in a shocking motion, until we were almost back to ground floor. Was really scary, but luckily we're completely fine and were only stuck in there 30 minutes.

[@will9703]

Glad you are okay. What is a shocking motion?

[@g-alicenine]

@@will9703 Like, we slowly went downward and every couple seconds the elevator was shaking

[@jadegecko]

Everybody's annoyed by the uptalk I'm just like "I'm on the internet and older than three. I don't need you to spend half the video explaining what an elevator is"

[@StealthYT]

That’s cool and all but I don’t remember asking, neither does anyone else.

[@jadegecko]

​@@StealthYT How ...edgy

[@StealthYT]

@@jadegecko If you're going to use punctuation at least use it correctly.

[@jadegecko]

​@@StealthYT you're trying to start random trouble with some random person over a random comment that's a year old. get an actual hobby

[@StealthYT]

@@jadegecko I mean I'm just simply stating facts, nobody asked.... Like nobody at all.

[@railroadmillion681]

The elevator cables at the space needle have been used since the 1960s and have shown no signs of slowing down. Now that's quality craftsmanship.

[@elevator_satellite]

They had been modernized several times.

[@JUNNY923]

When you have to pad the runtime by talking slowly and waiting till 7:28 to answer the question

[@3jfj493wns]

and it doesnt even reach 10 minutes lmao

[@TheTheo58]

She mentions the "rope grippers" which is installed on the counterweight side of the hoist ropes which cuts in in case of over-speeding. However I got the impression she was referring to "this" as the brakes which is not the case. It's the disc brakes on the and calipers between the motor and gear box (geared traction) or between the armature and driven sheave (gear-less traction)

[@gambello1195]

If an elevator goes down is it a descendator? 🤔🤔🤔

[@bloop_rat]

Gambello can u don’t

[@ihatealgebra2431]

@@bloop_rat not*

[@nexpar7439]

Damn I remember when I was a kid, I made a drawing of several elevator landings and on the lowest level I made the signage above the elevator as "Elevator", on the top floor I had the signage as "Descender" on all the floors in between, the signage said "Elevator/Descender".

[@zenvir1680]

I read somewhere about falling elevator, if everything above mentioned fails, to maximise chances of survival, lay flat on floor facing up while protecting your neck and head, so that impact is distributed evenly on body.

[@Menjoro]

480p Gang

[@Plynamic]

Seriously whats up with that

[@nexpar7439]

@@Plynamic I guess it's making a comeback like vinyl and cassettes.

[@TheFirmLiftSearch]

As a lift enthusiast, it's a very accurate video. There are some errors in it, but at least it can stop people having nightmares about it.

[@gormauslander]

"They're even safer than cars" Child, wild lions are safer than cars. There's a reason they're referred to as the worst form of transportation

[@tim_is_random]

I’ve never heard anyone refer to wild lions as the worst form of transportation, but I guess that sounds legit

[@dylanarcher827]

I have experienced a 20ish floor elevator free fall. (Mid 90's, Ernst and Young building Shortland St Auckland NZ). You freefall 3 floors, the centrifugal emergency brake activates and you suddenly stop, drop another 3 floors, stop, all the way down. The truly surreal part is that as we fell the floor indicator buttons updated perfectly as we dropped. I told the elevator repairman the next day, he called me a liar and said it was impossible, exactly the same thing happened to a 8 month pregnant woman in the same lift a week later and she broke her ankle. Im guessing they did not call HER a liar, and i wound up having nightmares about it every night for about the next 15 years.

[@CharlieFlemingOriginal]

52 seconds in and had to stop. The upwards inflections at two thirds to the end of every sentence or the end of it meant I felt as if I was about to fall off a cliff. When you narrate a video you are narrating to an audience of people you don't know.... Not with your friends in the queue at Starbucks while on your break.

[@KasumiRINA]

The two actual problems with elevators are bad designs which move when someone had their clothes, arm or leg stuck outside (happened in Soviet made junk) AND getting stuck, which can be very uncomfortable especially if you got regular blackouts.