I thought the Schmid Peoplemover was impossible

[@TomScottGo]

Just a quick note: Herr Schmid is 80 years old. He has a gravelly voice. He is, no doubt, aware of this. If you're thinking of making a rude joke about that, please don't: it'll join the ones that moderation's already blocked (though they left one thread about it still running). I've got a duty of care to the people who are kind enough to appear here: please help me by being kind in turn!

[@JaelSerrano-kg3nu]

His voice is perfectly fine, soothing even, no rude comment anyone makes will change that.

[@69Buddha]

Pin this!

[@KiLLJoYYouTube]

As if everyone of these comments will never have a reason for people to be empathetic to them in the future. There needs to be more kindness in the world.

[@tmbocheeko]

I absolutely love his gravely voice! Why do people feel the need to be asses about everything online 😢

[@henryyandell3222]

I love it when people come on to explain their own invention and hearing how passionate they are about it, kinda like the microwave video!

[@volvo480]

Not only it was installed one hour earlier than planned, after 20 years it is still fully functional. Kudos for tracking down the engineer who designed it.

[@badtemtime999]

@@mathiasvries BRRRRRRAKA MONOGA GERMAN SCIENCE IS THE WORLDS FINEST

[@devikwolf]

Totally awesome that they deployed it so quickly. I'm impressed.

[@lolollolol5654]

@@mathiasvries german engineering is almost everytime fine, well with the big exception of the berlin airport that hurt our engineering/architecture reputation badly

[@nottheth0mm5ter]

@@badtemtime999 Germans be like: I could complain about the short timeframe… BUT I REFUSE

[@electrictroy2010]

@lolollolol5654 WHAT about Volkswagen cheating on emissions tests in USA, Europe, India, etc? Just because VW didn’t want to admit their engineers couldn’t make a clean diesel

[@AFGuidesHD]

"It always bothered me that traffic had to stop for one person" what a quintessentially German problem.

[@Deochar]

German efficiency

[@thegrinderman1090]

Why do you say it's quintessentially German? I would've thought it was a global problem.

[@sebobald1227]

@@thegrinderman1090 because the most people would just take the problem for what it is and dont over engineer it.

[@thegrinderman1090]

@@sebobald1227 That's more to do with the solution than the problem. I would agree that it's a very German solution, but it's a problem faced everywhere that has heavy traffic.

[@plop010]

@@thegrinderman1090 actually you and Mr Schmid have it the wrong way around. the traffic is the problem, not the pedestrian wanting to move around in a public space

[@quantumfluffyflapjack]

I absolutely love it whenever Tom brings on a cool old guy who invented something niche. That's the absolute best use of this platform as far as I'm concerned. Living history in their own words.

[@chicken_punk_pie]

Ahh yes, the microwave. Very niche

[@charlesmayberry2825]

I agree, it's one thing for the invention to be there, but to hear the inventors side of it, is always amazing, we live in an age where a platform like this can keep that information, those interviews, where people can see and learn from them, rather than older times where at best it would be written down, or worse, never recorded outside the patent paperwork.

[@matthew9677]

Yes, it is magnificent

[@panda4247]

Haha, platform :)

[@teguhilhami5894]

a

[@florianwoo7997]

This is so incredibly German: the motivation is that cars don't need to stop, it's an over-engineered masterpiece, designed by an imperturbable Swabian inventor, delivered in only three parts, mounted in only a few hours, faster than scheduled. I'm somehow proud :D

[@arqelf9505]

chill... its just a stereotype

[@Somnogenesis]

I think "imperturbable Swabian inventor" is the best phrase I've read all day :)

[@Hexishu]

Dann kommt der Berliner

[@davidjorgensen877]

​@@arqelf9505 Emil Schmid is an example of a German engineer. An example of a German stereo type would be Blaupunkt.

[@marcgtsr]

His motivation was terrible but...

[@Svartez]

Imagine being a commuter that lives near this train station, one evening at 6/7pm your at the station on your way home and everything looks normal, you get to the station at 7/8am the next day to commute to work and all of a sudden there is this massive people mover that has been installed overnight.

[@RGC_animation]

"Wait, was this there yesterday? I must be dreaming."

[@paulb9769]

That is not happening over night.

[@PhantomlyReaper]

@@paulb9769 They literally said it in the video. Did you not watch it?

[@RGC_animation]

@@paulb9769 smh

[@CornFlex420]

@@paulb9769 you're right, it only took 3 hours which is far less than overnight

[@bomtrady3133]

He’s so proud of his invention and his engineering firm, I love it.

[@Kurachikento]

Tom brady

[@LyonPercival]

Took just 3hrs to install it, even 1hr more than given time. Amazing design and company.

[@khhnator]

well woulnt you? :D

[@MB-square]

As most Germans

[@ToyvideosKh]

Hello

[@JackDalton]

In the south of Germany we call people like Mr. Schmid respectfully "ein Bastler". People who are starting with some small ideas in their garage and end up creating world leading companies. His dialect is just awesome!

[@arnodobler1096]

oder "Tüftler"

[@thetomster7625]

you're writing it wrong: its called "a Baschdler" ;P

[@Fabian-bx5pm]

I think the term „Baschdler“ is more approriate …

[@jackdaone6469]

I dunno if it was due to his age or dialect, but he had a real "salt of the Earth" vibe to his mannerisms.

[@MrMalthusMusic]

Going the extra mile to track down the inventor and also include 3D models of the mechanism all in a sub 6 minute video is why Tom is the king of random things I never knew I need to know.

[@TheProtocol48]

Nicely sums it up.

[@Snookbone]

I don't think there's anything quite so German as being able to set up an entirely unique, large structure in four hours, and then doing it in three anyway.

[@seanthebluesheep]

There is: being proud of the achievement because the rail system was less disrupted as a result.

[@steemlenn8797]

There is. Goign to build an airport in 6 years and then it takes 16 (or so)

[@Seegalgalguntijak]

After all,it took us only a bit more than 14 years to build an airport.

[@_--_--_]

@@steemlenn8797 That was in East Germany, East Germany doesnt really count as part of Germany.

[@Darkness251]

Stuttgart 21 train station. Construction started in 2010, planned finish was 2019, now expected to be at least 2025. German efficiency is no more, sadly.

[@hiddenshadow2105]

"Railway gave us only four hours, but this wasn't a problem, we finished an hour earlier." Wow! This is a good project coordination.

[@Ron.S.]

I’m thinking - this station is so busy, they should have given them two hours. Especially when it was night time. (“Sorry, the northern line is closed due to engineering works” London 24/7)

[@hiddenshadow2105]

@@Ron.S. Then, I bet, they'd do it in 1 h 30 min.

[@jeremywilliams5107]

It is nothing short of amazing. But the foundations were done weeks earlier, I just marvel that they got the vertical alignment done across such a large object. Also what commissioning tests were needed and did that require track possession? Wenn Herr Schmid dies liest, wie seid Ihr mit der vertikalen Angleichung klargekommen?

[@t0b3yyy16]

That part reminded me of german comedian Jan Böhmermann's favourite Germany joke: how many Germans does it take to change a lightbulb? One. We are efficient and have no humor.

[@julius6903]

@@Ron.S. this station isn’t busy at all… I live near by.

[@SubsonicNoise]

We have one of these at a random train station in Berlin, which I only found out after I missed my stop on the way back from a party. I was only half concious and thoughg i was getting on a normal elevator, so you can imagine how baffled i was when i emerged on the other side of the rails 😭 I had to stand there and process that for a good five minutes

[@MWoyde]

Wait, which train station was it, I would be very interested to try it out. I never heard of this concept before this video.

[@SubsonicNoise]

@@MWoyde It‘s at Berlin-Rummelsburg Betriebsbahnhof! Had to look it up because i was way to sleepy at the time for it to register 😁

[@Ivan-zf6wd]

Thanks for the info, gotta check it out!

[@allornothing2926]

I just got this vid recommended and I recognised the device from rummelsburg too! So crazy

[@daryx.langdale]

I suppose Sisyphos was part of your evening? I used to leave right up the road from here but never needed to use this station.

[@MDMart]

"They only gave us four hours to install it in, so we did it in three" Yup, he's German.

[@dontfckwithafish3409]

you ever hear of our airfield?🤔

[@MDMart]

@@dontfckwithafish3409 I have not

[@hvdhvhdhj]

@@dontfckwithafish3409 or stuttgart 21

[@f1f1s]

Maybe they have been rehearsing for several days how to do it in two hours.

[@ryuugureen4969]

@@dontfckwithafish3409 That's the politicians' fault.

[@rogerbond2244]

Herr Schmid, you are a genius. Being mobility-impaired, as soon as I grasped the concept here I loved it. It's elegant, effortless and makes an arduous journey between platforms into a pleasant excursion. More of these, please! - which makes maintenance more... routine. (And, thank you, Tom, for not only bringing this innovation to a much larger audience but taking the time and effort to put the technical detail within our grasp. And also the guy behind it all). Three hours to install... Seriously, wow.

[@SnowTheBard]

I know right; as a disabled person myself … this is amazing. No stairs (oh god how many stairs I've fell down because there was literally no alternative); this makes public transportation so much more usable.

[@rogerbond2244]

@@SnowTheBard exactly. Press a button, get in, wait a few seconds, get out where you need to be - and you don't feel like you're inconveniencing anyone!

[@Addictive4real]

honest question: are 2 regular elevators and a bridge really much more of a hassle?

[@Flutterbyby]

We need these in Sydney, genius invention.

[@c182SkylaneRG]

@@Addictive4real I think the difference is that this was fully constructed off-site and brought in for final assembly in three major sub-sections. Two regular elevators and a bridge would more likely have been constructed on-site (even if off to the side of the tracks for later final assembly) which would have involved slightly more logistics. It's also a bit more of a hassle to the end user, who has to walk (or wheel) themselves across the bridge and then wait for a second elevator. Finally, adding a staircase necessarily increases the total footprint of the bridge on either end. Listen to the last minute or so of the video again. Tom describes all of the inconveniences a standardized setup creates to the end user, for the sake of easier maintenance and more widespread access to parts.

[@adambrezing]

I actually drove the exact same peoplemover and for those wondering, it is not really exciting because it is so smooth, one does not even notice the engineering masterwork behind it. I never knew those things were so rare and only makes me appreciate it more. Great video as always and I hope everyone has a great day!

[@DieMimik]

Kommsch au ausm Neckartal? :D

[@powgames]

Naja vielleicht ist es ja exciting eben weil es smooth ist und sich nicht anfühlt wie ein Flugzeugabsturz ^^

[@daveh7720]

That's how you know a good design - it works so well people don't even notice it.

[@louisvictor3473]

They're rare for quite a few many reasons though. Interesting engineering for sure, but also over engineered.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

@@daveh7720 99% Invisible sort of stuff.

[@sambuydens6418]

Germany missed out on some great Blues when this guy decided on a carreer.

[@nematube]

♫ I see cars and trains People and streets I see them cross Draggin' their feet And I think to myself Peoplemovers we neeeed ♫

[@stefankrause5138]

@@nematube I lituratly heard that comming, when I opened the replys 😂

[@pedrofuster9161]

@@nematube funniest thread I've seen in a looong time

[@Natalie-101]

@@nematube this is too good for a youtube reply

[@__Andrew_]

@@nematube brilliant thank you

[@rahmspinat]

I thought that "Peoplemover" was a funny translation by Tom. Turns out Schmid actually named it that.

[@jannejohansson3383]

There is not many brand markings on/in that Peoplemover

[@Posiman]

"People mover" is a generic term for fully automated small-scale personal transport systems.

[@adamreif7338]

@@Posiman It's not in Germany though.

[@shirosurfer8864]

It's just make sense in German as everything else does too

[@rahmspinat]

@@shirosurfer8864 Personenbeweger isn't nice. Personentransporter however, is very nice.

[@codex4046]

I think the main reason it's not as commonly used is because it's capacity is probably a lot less than with 2 regular elevators and a bridge, which allows for a constant two way traffic, where this elevator you'd have to wait for it to come all the way to you. This system works great for places that doesn't need a high flow capacity, this automatically results in 2 elevators + a bridge being installed in high traffic areas, and if it's used there why not everywhere. It's an amazing piece of tech and if it could move more people back and forth in less time it would undoubtedly be used more often

[@internetdumbass]

it looks like the station it's installed at also has an underpass?

[@Freekymoho]

maybe a double design? Two people movers synced to opposite sides

[@bdiddy77777]

Exactly, this system has very low throughput

[@flexo3333]

​@@internetdumbass ppl would get pissed very quickly if this thing was the only option

[@hoagy_ytfc]

@@internetdumbass it needs it, because the capacity of the peoplemover is so low. Those who can use the stairs will be way better off going that way.

[@Nighthawk20000]

Him bragging about being able to install that people mover in 3 hours is peak German pride haha

[@bonecanoe86]

If they tried to do something like that in Philly it would take 3 months, be way overbudget, and smell like hobo piss when it was opened.

[@mark9294]

Well guess what, installing a simple (non-horizontal) elevator now takes German Railways 6 months (no exaggeration) and most elevators in Germany do smell of piss too, so we’ve covered that as well. Hooray for modern German engineering!

[@mirjanbouma]

I'd brag too if I managed something like that!

[@Ghiaman1334]

"German Engineering is the best in the wooorld!"

[@killbotter6998]

@@Ghiaman1334 Is ThAt A jOjO´s ReFeReNcE

[@kevinlieby2798]

Thank you for subtitling the translation instead of dubbing over him. As someone independently studying German, I appreciate being able to hear common speech rather than the archaic format in my textbooks.

[@scbtripwire]

"I had to hire an engineering consultant to look at the original patents and break it down for me." I love that dedication!

[@LimYangJunn]

I would like every transportation ever made to be named "Peoplemover".

[@lonestarr1490]

So I have here that concept of a Peoplemover consisting of a catapult and a parachute...

[@mirjanbouma]

It's a very German way of naming things.

[@alvinip9128]

@@lonestarr1490 use a trebuchet instead

[@JustAGooseman]

@@alvinip9128 much prefer a non-horizontal trebechut to use less space.

[@gmills5763]

@@lonestarr1490 Peoplepult

[@surprisedchar2458]

“You get four hours.” “Make it five.” “…Four.” “Three! Take it or leave it.”

[@Happymali10]

"And now I have an hour to tell you how rude you were, sit down and listen up."

[@trentonpaul6376]

SpongeBob Shanghaied reference

[@RalphH007]

And then finish in two!

[@xanksauri89]

You don't get it, they are germans so it most likely went like: "I'll give you five hours" "I'll do it in four" "Okay then, I'll give you four hours!" "... I'll do it in three"

[@mypowerlevelisover9000]

Ah yes the negotiator

[@JaredOwen]

Wow! I had no idea something like existed. Very cool

[@crystl5775]

Very Cool !

[@victorvance2573]

Same for me. And i life in Germany.

[@ethanaerni8938]

was gonna you should make a 3d animation on how it works but it looks like that's already been done.

[@marachime]

Herr Schmid's German is so clear and easy to understand. I've been learning German for more than 15 years now and it's always a joy when someone is careful about how they enunciate. I didn't even need the subtitles :) Vielen Dank, Herr Schmid

[@yama123numbercauseytdemand4]

Was bedeutet „enunciate”? „pronunciate” sagt mir ja was, aber was bedeutet das Andere?

[@sstoeps]

I don't think he's careful about it specifically to be understood, by Foreigners, rather if he'd talk in his full accent even Germans from like the next state, or so will have trouble understanding him, so we in those areas are trying hard to talk in proper 'High-German' to be understood by everyone.

[@danielwi8653]

@@yama123numbercauseytdemand4 to enunciate bedeutet "sich ausdrücken / artikulieren"

[@vnixned2]

@Dampfkartoffel I'm no where near native but this dialect is super easy to follow, even if it kinda put me on the wrong note a few times. I'm not used to hearing "drie" instead of "drei" in German, but it is quite easy to follow still.

[@salmafirdaus]

Glad someone also notice this! Exactly his German is very clear and easy to understand!

[@visitor48]

It's so cool that we are able to hear from the inventor himself! Often the sorts of interesting devices you feature were created 100 years ago or more, and the inventor is deceased. Really interesting to get this information from the primary source.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Yep, it's an invention that's just old enough.

[@sweiland75]

I did not expect this to become a story about disability access but as a person with a disability I appreciate it. We have a long way to go to eliminate every barrier.

[@ravendangernavy3575]

My thoughts exactly it's really nice not being an after thought

[@deetvleet]

@@marknorville9827 wtf are you talking about

[@thomasheller629]

@@marknorville9827 tf what's wrong with you

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@marknorville9827 because then that erases people’s varied access needs instead of normalising and affirming them. Talking about the current problem isn’t what creates the problem, it’s just that it’s made _you_ think about it. When it affects your daily life, it’s not surprising it becomes quite important in your daily life to do your bit to improve things. Stop being negative.

[@samcooke343]

@@marknorville9827 Maybe because disabled people need certain accessible features that other people don't? Would have thought that's obvious.

[@lueck183]

There's such a crazy illusion around 3:37 -4:00 because of the reflection of the aluminium tower it seams at a certain point there is no tower but only an exit of an elevator which comes from underground. Maybe it's the magic peoplemover we observe here which traverse the cabin through thin air.

[@hisham_hm]

It got me going "huh!?" for a second too!

[@gingealex99999]

This was a quality episode, loved listening to how proud Emil was talking about his invention and the feedback he’s had from wheelchair users

[@jimmybuffet4970]

I feel like if even that one person regained his mobility because of it, it was all worth it - because it literally changed someone's life. How cool is that?

[@Jonas-vx1mr]

I do regularly drive past the Peoplemover on my commute to Stuttgart and I never imagined what a special and unique machine it is. Thanks Tom for coming here and showing me my "Ländle" in a way I have never seen it before!

[@Seegalgalguntijak]

If I were you,I'd stop there when I had the time time and let myself be moved.

[@xenon8342]

I absolutely adore Herr Schmid's accent. Even if I as a monolingual English speaker can't understand a word of it, it really sells that "Mad German inventor" notion

[@shadowhunterevil8214]

as a german and native speaker, it's hard to understand him, even for me

[@YTYY]

@@shadowhunterevil8214 really? its easy for me actually

[@joaopedrogomes910]

It's a Schwaben accent

[@jkobstube4314]

It's Swabian, that's my dialect aswell. Many big German engineering companies are in Swabia, though it's not at all an industrial region. Just seems to attract inventors.

[@davidpaprika5976]

It's between Swobian and 30 cigaretts a day for 60years

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

It's a shame it's not ubiquitous. It moved fast, arguably faster than a very busy passageway, increased accessibility (which as someone born with a hip disability and had to spend pre-K in a wheelchair, this is a plus) and above all else looks fun. A win-win to me And if you thought this was impossible, the St. Louis Gateway Arch elevator tram exists. A guy (let's call him by his cool surname Bowser) developed with his father elevator equipment that could travel horizontally, diagonally, and normal vertical. By chance, he was in the same room as the Arch's architect and was given two weeks to design and present in front of the team. He knew a normal system wouldn't do, so for the Arch he combined elevator and Ferris wheel elements to create a unique system where a tram of eight elevator pods that by rotating, allows the visitors inside to remain leveled the entire way

[@myladycasagrande863]

Thanks for sharing that story! I went up the Arch as a child, but didn't know the history of the "elevator" system.

[@HallsofAsgard96]

How very Willy Wonka. Btw I see u everywhere bro

[@longiusaescius2537]

Nice

[@cyan_oxy6734]

Have you seen how complex this is? Two regular elevators with a bridge work just as well and is going to be cheaper.

[@Vixduffield]

German railway: you’ve got 4h, overnight. Schmid: Halte mein Bier!

[@nyet_maker7948]

XD

[@dhooth]

XD

[@TakaG]

XD

[@eatyourcereal4747]

XD

[@anna-flora999]

More like "Hald mei Bier!"

[@macronencer]

It's a shame there aren't more of these in existence because it's a rather elegant thing. I especially love the calibrated springs for the counterweight!

[@jogon206]

It's elegant enough to imagine it with an art-deco design in some fancy 1920s promenade setting :D

[@ErikUden]

It also looks so futuristic!

[@praisethesun7255]

@matthew efficiency is lame

[@GamesFromSpace]

People don't want crosswalks which break.

[@acunningclown]

its such a shame that this wasnt mass produced, its the difference between an easy journey and a manageable journey for a disabled or elderly person

[@Whimsical3D]

"How, in this day and age, can it be that all road traffic has to stop because of one pedestrian?" As a former German myself, I have to say that this might be the single most German sentence I have ever heard in my entire life. 😳 Yes, I am fully aware that his intention was to say that he'd like to find a solution that accommodates BOTH instead of one over the other. But if taken literally, it so perfectly encapsulates the German Zeitgeist and their love of cars. 🤣

[@NahrAlma]

Cars above all. Luckily that is gonna change, slowly but surely.

[@Urmel331]

"former" German? please explain.

[@st_420]

Is Zeitgeist a word that english people use too? Like Kindergarten.

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

@@st_420 It is.

[@Whimsical3D]

@@Urmel331 Born and raised in Germany, moved to the US, and now I am no longer a German citizen.

[@SaszaDerRoyt]

I like that he talked to wheelchair users about this, is really a great example of technology that's explicitly made to be accessible for disabled users

[@lukewarmairballoon6801]

I love how languages such as German and Norwegian have words that are so direct about what they do. "So what are you going to call this awesome invention that you've made? Maybe something after yourself?" "Hmm... peoplemover."

[@w0ttheh3ll]

German engineering companies love to use english names for their products to make them sound smart and modern.

[@sam8742]

@@w0ttheh3ll See China, put English on the box, somehow it makes it higher quality

[@ls200076]

Almost every Germanic language has that, it's the same with Danish, Dutch etc

[@helginator]

@UpNorth I dag er mest vanlig og burke Sykehuset og syke huset I to ord er mindre vanlig. Capercaillie = tiur or Storfugel

[@Novozymandiaz]

@UpNorth Let me add german. "Aeroplane" - "Fly-Stuff" "Hospital" - "Sick-House" "Capercaillie" - "Auer?-Rooster" "Orca" - "Orca", but also "Killerwhale" "Peninsula" - "Half-Island" So we share quite alot of meaning with Norweigian

[@grmpf]

As a German, I have no idea why, after this introduction, I wasn't already expecting an eccentric old Swabian to show up.

[@jkbecker]

Swabian old guy who filed multiple patents just to solve the problem of “a single pedestrian is holding up traffic” is the most German thing ever 😂

[@tomitiustritus6672]

And only three of them being installed because it's deemed too expensive, although it's just minimally more expensive than the alternative, is the most swabian thing ever. ;)

[@snjert8406]

@@tomitiustritus6672 true omg hahahaha

[@MultiArrie]

Can you explain why the region is key to be a exelent engineer.

[@1337-i9j]

@@MultiArrie There is a strong engineering culture in south west Germany. Mercedes and Porsche had been founded there just a few kilometres apart from each other. There are lots of (global market leading) engineering companies like Bosch, Trumpf, Herrenknecht, Liebherr, Mahle, Carl Zeiss AG, SICK AG, Dürr AG, ebmpapst, Schaeffler, Storz, Würth and many more with each company having tens of thousands of highly specialized employees in that region. Many of the companies are not familiar to the average consumer but they've been operating for decades or even centuries. The SCHMID-Gruppe here in this video is part of this engineering culture. Obviously with the industry in place it keeps growing since knowledge is passed to the next generations through universities and schools. I believe it's hard to say what started it all but I think it comes down to family businesses being a thing. They are/were interested in preserving long term success and innovation. Automotive industries have also carried brands like Bosch and Mahle to the point where they've became much more than that. Swabian people are also said to work very hard while spending very little.

[@Planken]

as a german i can say: Emil Schmid's voice sounds epic in german also

[@bernds6587]

I concur.

[@grmpf]

As another German, I take it one step further and say that this video is worth learning German and all its accents to perfection just to appreciate how much his accent is the cherry on top.

[@null0seven662]

@@grmpf no Accent, just a good trained smoker lung

[@grmpf]

@@null0seven662 The only way you don't hear his accent is if you're also Swabian.

[@null0seven662]

@@grmpf ne, aus Bayern, aber ich habe wahrscheinlich nur dem Wundervollen Klang einer Drahtbürste auf einer löchrigen Regenrinne gelauscht^^

[@FutureCommentary1]

I love that you featured the original inventor and I love that he accepted your invitation. It's amazing to see inventions that will survive their creator.

[@cherrybacon9790]

This inventor is a real hero. In times where politicians talk about inclusion of handicapped people and forget about implementations- this guy just spends his time doing it. Das Bundesverdienstkreuz dem Manne!!!

[@certaindeath7776]

Der Typ ist doch nicht ganz sauber... "Dass Autos nicht für Leute stoppen müssen"... ja das ist verkehrspolitik aus der zeit als der typ noch jung war, aber jeder mit verstand weiß, dass das ne Lösung für ein Problem ist, das in sich selbst ein Problem darstellt. Mit dieser Lösung werden dann nur noch mehr Ressourcen verballert... Dass nur 3 davon gebaut wurden sagt eh schon alles... viel geld problemen nachwerfen, wenns viel günstiger wär das problem erst gar nicht zu schaffen.

[@maximilianwebhofer8130]

@@certaindeath7776 ganz deiner Meinung. Vielleicht gibt es andere gute Argumente aber das von ihm gewählte ist wirklich lächerlich!

[@cherrybacon9790]

@@certaindeath7776 Eine interessante Lösung schlecht beworben. Stimmt schon, was Du sagst @CertainDeath777 . Ich sehe die Vorteile des Horizontaltransports jedoch speziell für Schwerbehinderte auch dort, wo andere Lösungen nur schwer zu implementieren sind- bspw. die typischen Rolltreppen in U-Bahnen, die schräg über die Fahrröhren verlaufen. Oder möglicherweise auch zwischen Gebäuden wo einem Schwerbehinderten die Zugänge bisweilen noch durch steile Treppen oder zu steile Rampen verbaut sind, da es aufgrund der engen Bebauung keine sinnvolle andere Lösung gäbe.

[@hmpeter]

@@certaindeath7776 Wenn der Verkehr nicht ständig anhalten, stehen und wieder anfahren muss dann spart das je nach Verkehrsdichte u.U. erhebliche Mengen Kraftstoff, Feinstaub und akustische Umweltbelastung ein. Sein Beweggrund war das aber wohl vermutlich nicht. ^^

[@Kythyria]

Talk is cheap. Handwaving the implementation as "clearly" trivial is particularly inexpensive. A working implementation is where the real value is, but people would rather talk about talk. It's silly.

[@TomScottGo]

Thanks so much to all the team who helped make this possible! Credits are in the description. Also: I have a second channel now! This week, I tried caving and found out I'm very bad at caving: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3yyi4itlKabbtk

[@gabe6475]

Nice

[@TANNAPON]

Three days ago, wth?

[@imakeeditsiwillbeatevil9346]

Yw

[@Informedphysician]

Its always a good day when you upload.

[@naman4067]

6th

[@undefined40]

"DIe ham me al für bekloppt gehalten" ... If your subtitle translator wasn't by chance a native German speaker, cudos for getting that right.

[@patrickhanft]

Obviously a native Swabian speaker.

[@paulfaulkner6299]

I thought they were crazy too

[@rickmortyson4861]

Hahahaha geil alter

[@prinzibaer0]

hahahha junge

[@0xMN]

most of Tom Scott subscribers are swabian

[@MikeyDoosifer]

As impractical as it may be to install, i would love to see these alongside standard footbridges for an easier world for people with disablities. this world isn't designed with them in mind and it would be nice to see them get some more

[@VulpisFoxfire]

I was thinking the same thing watching this--why not have both, similar to how places have both escalators *and* stairs, the latter being a backup if the former breaks down (and/or power goes out), or users *want* the extra exercise

[@azuralmusic]

If they installed the thing in three hours it's not impracticable to install.

[@Sam_T2000]

and if not that, at least a system of catapults and nets.

[@MisterW0lfe]

@@Sam_T2000 and sponges for when the nets fail... they are soft to land on, or make cleanup easier if the passenger also missed landing on them (a very Gnomish invention from a D&D Adventures book I can't remember the title of)

[@w0ttheh3ll]

For all you guys out there, the inventor has a very stereotypical swabian dialect and manner of speech. This makes it quite enjoyable to listen to him for us germans. I suspect it's mild enough to be understood effortlessly by most native german speakers.

[@GuidoHendrikx]

dude it was very easy to understand even for non native speakers

[@sm3675]

What's so unique about the Sawbian accent?? Please explain. I'm not German.

[@sm3675]

Oh. Nevermind. It's a place with many mountains, and thus created an interesting variation.

[@steve1978ger]

@@sm3675 - it's a very distinct regional dialect with recognizable pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. The Swabians also have a stereotype attached of being avid tinkerers and shrewd business people. It's not only the language, the whole demeanor and attire of Mr. Schmidt and his pride in his mechanical contraption and its usefulness fit the stereotype of the Swabian business owner very well.

[@Ponkdonker]

"Enjoyable", huh? If you say so....

[@FB-jd4rx]

Mr. Schmid seems like someone you could talk with for hours without a boring second. Genius!

[@IgnacyG1998]

I don't think I could, I can't really speak German.

[@therogueadmiral]

@@IgnacyG1998 an unfortunate failing many of us share.

[@rocketgeek96]

Everybody's talking about how quintessentially German it is to be given four hours to assemble this large of a bridge and then doing it in three hours anyway, but I think the more German thing is how this entirely unique, over-engineered, and damn-near inscrutable piece of design *was delivered and set up IN ONLY **_THREE PARTS!!!!!_* Jesus, never underestimate German efficiency, I guess!

[@kamchrkri]

The other peoplemover, located in Pfullingen, is shut down due to economic reasons. Its just standing there for now over 12 years. Thats efficient.

[@PakuTheMagnificent]

@@kamchrkri its not really in the way of anything though

[@Schmidtelpunkt]

They did something similar at the main station in Berlin. To create a building over the train tracks, they built it with hinges. Then they just had to close the track down for a limited time and fold it.

[@arqelf9505]

chill... its just a stereotype

[@JamesTheBell1]

How many Germans does it take to cha- Done!

[@reilyn5366]

I went past this thing every day without noticing it, it takes Tom Scott to make you realise what kind of nice stuff is in your area

[@kamo7293]

literally it was rail people: have it done in 4 hours Schmidt: I'll do it in 3

[@SaengerDruide02]

rail people doing it themselves: 4 days

[@Leblribrbrrq]

Isn't it usually like this? We need 5 hours. You get 4. We'll do it in 3.

[@Hendricus56]

@@SaengerDruide02 *years

[@DangItshere]

Schmidt: 3, take it or leave it

[@DaedalusYoung]

Germans and their efficiency.

[@tbestig4164]

My god imagine showing up for your daily commute and suddenly seeing this huge rectangular arch over the tracks that just wasn’t there the previous night

[@akiraakiraakiraakira]

* 3 hours ago

[@grahammonk8013]

I'm guessing the 3 hours was for the bridge piece. No reason the towers could not have been put in ahead of time. The restriction was likely working over the power lines.

[@jcskyknight2222]

@@grahammonk8013 if the subtitles are a correct translation then it suggests they were given 4 hours for the whole set-up. (2:50 or so) But I agree they could have done a lot without disruption anyway.

[@seppforcher4714]

@@jcskyknight2222 Austrian here. Subtitles are correct

[@PeterParker-df6ce]

That guy has got the GREATEST blues voice I've ever heard.

[@guntherdemuth6404]

If you like it, you need to listen to Hans Hartz, the german Joe Cocker.

[@ImSquiggs]

I love that this is simply the dream of an engineer that couldn’t stand a prevalent inefficiency in an everyday system. I assume most people would just consider it a built-in element you have to deal with, but not this guy, he’s going for solutions. All the little differences in our brains come together and give humanity people like this - someone that’s looking for solutions to problems that don’t even register for the rest of us.

[@yaboyjay7202]

I love the contrast of Tom's perfect enunciation, considering every word and phrase and then it cuts to Mr Schmid, who talks in thick Swabian dialect about "baschteln, so nebeher" (dialect way of saying to tinker around in his spare time) 😄

[@snjert8406]

Right? I loved it hahaha

[@Marahute0]

That's why I didn't understand what was said. I'm moderately proficient in German but thought it was an accent I didn't quite manage, turns out it's a dialect problem!

[@kartoffelstranger9187]

Funny how that Swabian dialect is so similar to swiss german^^ Felt so familiar

[@hannessteffenhagen61]

@@Marahute0 I'm a native speaker, but even I needed a couple of sentences to adjust. Not a dialect I'm used to.

[@HiiPPi3]

@@kartoffelstranger9187 Same dialect group: both are alemannic.

[@dinahmyte3749]

As someone trying to plan a vacation with two older people in wheelchairs: accessibility isn't common. It's not the standard. And we're left going "people in their 60s who COULD be independent can't because things are still lagging behind" and trying to find a solution that doesn't make someone with a disability feel like burden... :/ And the smallest bit of independence can do that...

[@paddybm3245]

Travel to Vienna. every bus, subway, S-Bahn and around 90% of the trams are wheelchair accessible. There is no station without elevators and when have full wheelchair accessibility in the whole rail network of the city.

[@dinahmyte3749]

@@paddybm3245 But I do want to travel to Europe, put my German degree to actual use instead of just remembering vague greetings. (Fun fact, I know where Vienna is... I was relating my German knowledge to a city in Europe where German is spoken. Thank you 👍🏽! 🦆)

[@Rotem_S]

@@dinahmyte3749 did you mean travel to Germany? Because AFAIK, Vienna is in Europe

[@thevitulus]

@@dinahmyte3749 Vienna is in Austria where German is the national langauge.

[@stargate525]

It's issues of space, cost, and differentiation. People are people, and with very few exceptions at the high and low ends of the height scale one thing works for everyone. Accessibility is a whole different thing. Ideal wheelchair design is different from walker design is different from blind is different from paralyzed or weak. Accessibility standards try to meet them all and do passably, but take up SO much more space and cost much more to add that it makes the balance sheet very hard to rectify.

[@martinsudi758]

The other Peoplemover still in operation is installed at a S-Bahn (commuter rail) station in Berlin! It´s called Betriebsbahnhof-Rummelsburg and I never knew that they were this rare and uncommon! Great video as always Tom!

[@mistermist634]

I knew it, it looked so familiar! Will have to get out of the train there next time.

[@S404_44]

@Electic that's closed according to Wikipedia

[@ximono]

Nobody wanted to cross the road to go to Kaufland

[@f6604]

Well now I know what I will be doing next time I get to that station.

[@kleptoplast_science]

@@mistermist634 Be sure to take an oily or wet rug to make the scratched windows transparent again :) (I tried it yesterday and you can't see anything out of the windows).

[@Mynailgun]

Huge respect to the guy for coming on and explaining how it works

[@Amorverde90]

The other elevator is in Berlin at the station "Betriebsbahnhof Rummelsburg". The condition of it is a bit worse, though. Sadly you can not look out the windows because of tagging and it often smells. Also it does not glide as smooth as the one in the video, but next time I ride it I will pay more attantion to the bumps, because now I may identify the change of mechanism. Thank you for this super informative video on this landmark, that I have been taking for granted until now!

[@echodelta9]

So sad they tag their bodies and everything around them.There is some of that scribbling even in this video. The tower of babel is raised again.

[@karlmakhwa4182]

Your surname aside, I can tell that you're German from the placement of the final comma! Außerdem, du hast fast perfektes Englisch und ich würde sehr gerne Deutschland besuchen. Grüße aus England!

[@lineriderrulz]

@@karlmakhwa4182 I lived in Germany for 9 years and you write the language better than I do. Respect to you! (I won't embarrass myself with my own efforts here)

[@karlmakhwa4182]

@@lineriderrulz I still plan to be learning languages in my 80s so it's never too late to start or improve! Thanks a lot for the respect and here's a recommendation of a book which inspired me: Fluent in 3 months - Benny Lewis Viel Glück!

[@Nicarand]

That one suuucks, it's broken like every other time you try to use it. My brother used to live close to that station, so I used it a lot. Or at least tried to.

[@lizzam]

"has been doing that for about 20 years" "Since 1980?" No, my brain...it doesn't work like that

[@fds7476]

Wooo, Millennials represent!

[@CanuckMonkey13]

I'm with you. It has been 2000 for almost 22 years now...

[@kirmityou]

We're closer to 2050 than we're to 1990, let that sink in...

[@AnnaEmilka]

@@kirmityou please, don't even

[@taunter22nil58]

@@kirmityou no. stahp.

[@patrick1532]

"The railway gave us 4 hours to set it up here, but that wasn't a problem for us" what an absolute badass lmao

[@yumnjame546]

The fact that it is actually named "peoplemover" raised the respect bar for Schmid.

[@Nafeesdrmc]

People with disability and arthritis would greatly benefit from such installation in various places. Specially in South Asian nations like Bangladesh, Pakistan and India, where most passes like these are mostly stairways, making it difficult for a lot of people. Kudos to the brilliant inventor, who thought of human necessity over simple monetary benefit!. Thanks Tom for showing us such gems from across the world!

[@Saurabh.up81]

Very good point. I was travelling by train recently and it was a true pain to go from platform 1 to 6 using tne footbridge...there were two flight of stairs involved which would be ok except if you have to carry heavy luggage.

[@ShadowDragon8685]

@Gaming ZONE GAZO I expect that if you gave him the job, Herr Schmid would rise to the task.

[@thatman6916]

In India? Forget it 🙄

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

“I see skies of blue Peoplemovers of grey And I think to myself… What a wonderful lift.” 🎼🎶🎵

[@jamescanjuggle]

😂👌 this and German cookie monster

[@es0strefis]

Goddamnit 😂😂😂😂

[@ColinFisher]

Why do I feel bad laughing at that? Good one.

[@Dr_Doctor_Lee]

no. you didnt. X3 it is...it is...

[@QuilloManar]

“A highly specialised engineer in this one niche thing” is exactly what Germans are good at being. If there’s one thing that you can trust that Germany will supply, it’s an engineer.

[@AmlanjyotiSaikia]

Und bier.

[@lolollolol5654]

and to become one is very hard, trust me i am speaking from experience haha, german architecture and engineering student here

[@wustenflamme4660]

Und bratwu-

[@57thorns]

But this solution is more French than German, absolutely brilliant, but complicated and expensive. I am saying this as a long time Citroën lover, thinking mostly about the gas hydraulic suspension.

[@chrisgale5634]

@@57thorns great fan of my Citroën, nicely designed cars.

[@TheWinglessHawk]

Herr Schmid is btw really funny! His humor about how they just went there and built the whole thing up in three pieces and the 1 hour earlier done part was the perfect cherry on top. I also like the wheelchair accessibility with this, because germany really has a huge problem with that. Sure some train stations have elevators, but they are often badly maintained etc. so yes in the end this is a really easy and good solution without much of the hassle it else would present.

[@adrians1447]

I don’t think he was going for humour.. I think he was totally genuine in how he perceived the problem and how he took it upon himself to find a solution and to efficiently deploy said solution. Yes, it has flaws, but it does solve the original problem in a very elegant way that also makes the train station accessible to disabled people. I love everything about this video/story.

[@piekay7285]

I love how Tom tried his best to translate him into “casual English”. If you understand German this is just hilarious

[@yuotueb]

It's a really good translation! Maybe not of his tone/quirkiness, but the meaning is perfect.

[@aBlackMage]

From the description, it seems like the cameraman and producer for this video are both German, so it makes sense that they'd be able to provide a good translation!

[@Mister0Eel]

I understand a little German, but nowhere near enough to make out what's so funny. Mind helping me a bit?

[@conchaiii4167]

@@Mister0Eel It's kinda old german. Like, not from 200 or 1000 years ago, but just how you'd expect a 80 year old to speak today, which does sound a little funny.

[@AGenericFool]

@@conchaiii4167 Trotzdem ne geile Sau, im positiven Sinne.

[@juliemittel3931]

as a native german speaker, those subtitles really helped. thanks to the editor for putting them in!

[@bernds6587]

I had no problem, even though it isn't my native dialect. This guy needs to speak in an audio book 😅

[@fazed02]

What a bloody marvellous design. A shame it never took off.

[@rita-want-sex152]

ake them to your😕😔😓

[@rita-want-sex152]

and when you are 🤧🤢

[@rita-want-sex152]

ake them to your😕😔😓

[@bartholomewdan]

If it has enough speed on the upward part then maybe...

[@aliasofanalias7448]

I mean an elevator that takes off would be the opposite of a marvellous design

[@kristof2112]

I would never have thought it was so 'simple'. I mean the structure moves in a curve, and from the outside appearance there is nothing to indicate that. Amazing idea!

[@TheSwissChalet]

The Germans love their straight lines and angles, don’t they?

[@TheOddVideoChannel]

It is a clever idea really, especially that it avoids a complicated transition between the drive system for vertical and horizontal movement in a rather elegant way. Of course, using off-the-shelf components is preferred ... but if you install enough people movers they'll become off-the-shelf eventually. Credits to Mr. Schmid for the idea and for the German railway for the courage to try it.

[@seabiscuits]

Holy cow that's a mic drop. 'This is the schmid people mover, I hired people to tell me how it works, and here's the inventor' I've not got past Eric Schmid yet, but that is an epic move, love it!

[@imogen1]

Really cool to see people's redstone builds get made irl

[@cat1554]

German Mumbo Jumbo

[@laszlokaestner5766]

Herr Schmid is a genius. It's a real shame his invention has not been taken up more widely nor his achievement recognised for the revolution it undoubtedly is. It would not surprise me if, in a hundred years time, this is not seen as a vital piece of technology. Herr Schmid, if you read this, as a very proud Englishman who hates it when the Germans beat us at anything, I doff my cap to you sir.

[@devikwolf]

The only limiting factor of this is the lower capacity compared to elevators and a bridge, but that's something we can ultimately work around.

[@lolollolol5654]

your british rotary watches are not bad too haha. greetings from a just finished german engineer

[@markoproloscic4492]

It's a cool piece of technology but I highly doubt it's 'revolutionary'. It can easily be replaced by a regular footbridge with an elevator on each end which would be simpler, have much higher throughput and no specialized equipment/maintenance .

[@sepg5084]

I don't see the actual advantage to this thing, it will be slower because you only have 1 elevator going to-and-fro. Regular footbridges allow walking people to traverse in both directions, footbridges equipped with regular elevators can also accommodate wheelchair users without requiring assistance, are more fail-safe because you can just take regular stairs if the elevator is out of service, and easier to maintain because the parts are more common. Some regular foot bridges even have escalators and elevators at the same time for people in wheelchairs and people who have difficulty climbing stairs. This seems to be a solution to a problem that does not exist.

[@bacicinvatteneaca]

Why not simply a footbridge with escalators?

[@carlopton]

As a handicapped person I can say that that is a great invention. As a human being I can say that is one hell of a slick invention that I wish had become a common solution. Great job Mr. Schmid, and thanks to Tom Scott for putting this great invention out into the world. Just off the top of my head I can think of places that the Schmid elevator would be a good fit. Ah well, perhaps its day will dawn soon. UPDATE: Handicapped/disabled is a state of being, not a state of shame.

[@dafoex]

I can tell you're american, or at least learned English from one. It perplexes me how you can be totally fine with calling yourself that.

[@BlackHawkBallistic]

@@dafoex Whats wrong with saying you are/have a handicap? There is nothing wrong with that and it isn't something normal people look down upon, at least in the US.

[@naechosa]

@@dafoex and I can tell you have spent too much time on twitter

[@hspurr5922]

@@dafoex and now let's hear why it's your business how someone refers to themself...

[@nacoran]

It would raise the cost a bit, but it wouldn't be hard to design this with a staircase/bridge right next to it. That would take care of a big part of the issues if it broke down. I'm betting the most common failure would be the motor for the tram, which again, could be standardized. The next step, I'd think, for something like this would be making it so it can go around turns and maybe adding some less utilitarian sprucing up of the exterior. If you could get something like this to serve all 4 corners of an intersection in a loop, maybe with 2 tracks so that if one breaks down the other keeps working... if the car is self powered having it run a loop could allow it to run several cars at once.

[@MidlifeCrisisJoe]

"On top of" instead of "next to" would be much more ideal. You've already built a bridge someone could walk across with this design. That's just a flat roof, and a flat surface is just fine for a walking path after all. It just doesn't have guard rails on top or a set of stairs to access the pathway. So build some guard rails and some spiral staircases (you don't really have to worry about ramps in this scenarios since the elevator itself is for people in wheelchairs) and you're set. You'd shrink the overall footprint much more that way.

[@AaronOfMpls]

I imagine one reason they built it at that station was the existing pedestrian underpass.

[@guysumpthin2974]

Much smarter !!

[@2077jimbo]

Imagine two in parallel, as wide as the platforms would allow and as long as needed.

[@jochenkraus7016]

@@MidlifeCrisisJoe Next to it means fewer stairs to climb. The stairs could go around the two towers. I think that this together with a pedestrian bridge next to it would be the best for a higher capacity.

[@Fulgrim88]

There's also an old elevator design called "Paternoster" which was very popular in germany and can still be seen (and experienced) in a few public buildings to this day. Follows a similar principle. It's a continous line of open cabins that never stop as they go along a circular track. You just jump on and off at your desired stop. At the top and bottom they will also go from vertical to horizontal movement to switch to a second shaft that will take you back in the other direction

[@thegeneralissimo470]

Tom has already talked about Paternoster lifts

[@negergreger666]

That one is annoyed with having to stop the car “for a single pedestrian” really has to be the most German reason for building a horizontal/vertical elevator.

[@geraldhenrickson7472]

I have walked around in many countries. I get the impression that drivers everywhere hate to stop for pedestrians.

[@feanenatreides]

Here in downstate NY it seems like some drivers speed up instead: "you wanna cross MY road, you carless jerk?!"

[@jasondashney]

@@feanenatreides OMG I'm there! That's so much better. Where I live pedestrians won't so much as take a single step a bit faster or slower to allow a vehicle through. Sometimes they'll dawdle across the road and look right at you and then stay at that glacial pace as if they are not stopping a whole line of traffic.

[@negergreger666]

@@geraldhenrickson7472 absolutely, but people most everywhere typically don’t start building an elevator bridge as a result…

[@tobiasL1991]

This is such a German story, "we got 4 hours and we did it in 3".

[@NicoZole]

In Germany we say "drei Minuten vor der Zeit, ist die deutsche Pünktlichkeit." "three minutes ahead of time, is the German punctuality."

[@schenkov]

In today's Germany it would be: "we had 3 hours but we had a Problem, which took us 24 hours to identify and about 4 month to fix."

[@bartholomewdan]

Tell that to the people who live in Stuttgart. Or Berlin. Or Hamburg.

[@Quasihamster]

@@bartholomewdan Or Köln. 600 years to build one church, and now probably the same time to patch one hole we accidentally made in the ground!

[@Seegalgalguntijak]

Right, we only took 14 years to build an airport.

[@anandprahlad5434]

Bit sad that this clever bit of engineering didn't catch on, & is now relegated to a curiosity. Good of you to showcase it.

[@RedRocket4000]

Probably not marketed and definitely not marketed in US as under disability laws this would almost be mandatory if people knew they existed.

[@safaricalamari7613]

@@RedRocket4000 Just build a 5 level staircase that connects between them or an underground tunnel for more able people. Two problems solved

[@excier6074]

It's overdesigned, expensive, and slow. It's a genius solution to a non-existent problem. A pair of elevators on either side with walkelators in-between would be far more efficient, and have the same result. This is the efficiency of a train, with the capacity of an elevator, overall a horrible combination, but the technology and engineering that went into the bad idea was genius.

[@sbraypaynt]

People are saying this is genius Say you want to cross the platform, You have to wait for the entire machine to travel from one side to the other god help you if there’s already 5 people in the lift. You’ll have to wait out two trips Why not just have stairs and an elevator leading to a pedestrian over pass. It’s less complex, much faster and allows more people to travel across at a time.

[@procatprocat9647]

It's a fundamentally flawed concept

[@karthik448]

There's just something special about an inventor talking about his work. You somehow feel the passion and the amount of time and effort behind it.

[@chopperhead2012]

If Herr Schmid sounded literally any different, I would've been MONUMENTALLY disappointed.

[@sm3675]

?

[@conrailquality1999]

@@sm3675 it's a joke i think

[@seanegli7118]

@@sm3675 it’s because of the stereotype of Germans always sounding angry

[@conrailquality1999]

@WorldUnited oh non

[@DavidDarnes]

Classic Tom Scott to script the dialog perfectly in time with the lift from start to finish ⏰

[@psyched91]

And with the passing train! :)

[@JordanDurci]

Are you the David Darnes who created the Garth website template? If so, I used the template for my college's Comics Club's website as a final project in a web development class back while I was in college!

[@TigruArdavi]

plot twist: Tom Scott actually started recording when the elevator departed and spoke backwards and played the video backwards then.

[@DavidDarnes]

@@JordanDurci haha yes I am! Wow amazing, nice job. Thanks for sharing and using it 😊

[@DavidDarnes]

@@TigruArdavi “we’re going full Tenet on this one”

[@MegaVikingen]

"They only gave us 4 hours to install it, but we finished installing the elevator in 3 hours." What a fine example of German efficiency.

[@monxx15]

The machine is also very much an example of German over-engineering if you think about it

[@dragon32210]

Too bad the same can't be said of Berlin Brandenburg airport

[@Moooiee]

That is over. German efficiency doesn't exist anymore.

[@arqelf9505]

chill... its just a stereotype

[@MarcoEH]

@@dragon32210 The difference between a government planned project and a private project :D

[@palco22]

People of experience are a sure bet interesting ! ..........and you certainly found one. Hat's off to Mr. Schmid ! .........and as always, great video !

[@chelnahtheegghead]

That was lovely, hearing Herr Schmid talk about the wheelchair user who can travel more easily thanks to his invention. 😊

[@udirt]

And funny how people get stuck on not disrupting traffic (which helps no atom on earth) vs all the accessibility bits of this.

[@TheXInvador]

It helps everything flow smoother, what are you even talking about?

[@fdterritory]

I would listen to this dude talk about literally anything.

[@microcolonel]

Lends a quality the language that you don't often hear.

[@g60force]

make a audiobook for a horrorstory ;)

[@kr4ftt]

I know right????

[@Cypherwraith001]

Tom, or Herr Schmid? Because yes to both.

[@Morbos1000]

I don't speak a word of German but every time Emil Schmid was talking I stopped what I was doing and just listened to him!

[@sunacifraoipicssuilenrocsu4719]

i literally live 7 km away from the peoplemover in altbach, so im kinda surprised its actually rare, like, i use it kinda often without thinking about it

[@erickeane471]

It's great when engineers go on their gut feeling and own ingenuity, rather than being asked to design something by a company. We need more innovation like this.

[@moos5221]

Yes...but then again, we have no clue how many millions of amazing inventions are out there that just didn't fit in the space and time or didn't get presented to the correct audience for various reasons. I'm very much with you here on your statement, but on the other hand if a politician decides to think out of the box and gives one of these inventors a chance to set up their ingenius invention that is a more complex and fancy but also slightly better example of something else that already exists and which costs more then the already existing pieces, then that politician will get boo'ed for wasting tax payers money and will soon lose his job. At least in our current world that is a likely scenario.

[@harenterberge2632]

Initial motivation: pedestrians should not hold up cars. End result: improving wheel chair access to trains.

[@nogravitas7585]

The path to utopia is paved with impatient intentions?

[@lolollolol5654]

ze germanz

[@TheAgamemnon911]

"Wir können alles, außer Hochdeutsch" - "We can do everything, except speak high german" That was acutally the slogan of the Swabian ad campaign. I'm serious! It's funny, because it's true. :D

[@terranovarubacha5473]

Why did they need an ad campaign?

[@Ulkomaalainen]

@@terranovarubacha5473 As everywhere, regions are competing for companies and high skilled workers to come to their place. So you try to convey a positive and recognizable image.

[@TheAgamemnon911]

@@terranovarubacha5473 Good question. I don't know for sure. It's probably not public image but competing for new companies to settle there. That, or some department just had money to throw away and didn't want to risk being downsized.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

And to this day there is a certain rivalry between regions in Germany. All that stuff hasn't changed much since the HRE

[@FliiiegendeKaetze]

It's still Baden-Württemberg's official motto

[@Maxime_K-G]

A year after watching this video today I saw it while passing by going from Tübbingen to Esslingen. I had to come back to this video to confirm but the unique design is kind of unmistakable. Must be cool for the people who live here that get to use it often!

[@frankyboy4409]

This is a seriously cool design. I'm surprised the DB didn't order shittons of those for various train stations tbh. Especially considering the short downtimes and such. Beste Grüße an Herrn Schmid, vielleicht ist das Video ja genau was es braucht für den großen Durchbruch :)

[@ls200076]

I don't think this will cause to a breakthrough tho. The alternatives are cheaper unfortunately.

[@frankyboy4409]

@@ls200076 i don't see how you can get two elevators and a bridge much cheaper than that, especially once you go into larger scale production.

[@cockatoofan]

Walking overpass has no downtime And I imagine adding 2 elevators for the overpass stairs for disabled people is cheaper than this

[@ruukinen]

@@cockatoofan It does have downtime though? If it didn't have down time, then for the exact same reasons, why would you need any for this one?

[@Dubanx]

@@ruukinen Because moving parts break?

[@thisbymaster]

I really love the videoes when you are able to talk with the original engineers behind their work. It is really nice to see people so dedicated to their work and believing in it after that many years.

[@anubarak9184]

"Und wir waren eine Stunde früher fertig gewesen" I was not expecting to hear that tbh

[@yshwgth]

Emil ist noch von der alten Schule.

[@marcusburger1523]

Die Bahn kam trotzdem 2 zu spät

[@absinthefandubs9130]

Swabians just be like that

[@DasBauer]

That only happens with private companies. The government wouldn't have even arrived after 3h.

[@katarjin]

...willing to explain to someone who only understands English?

[@nematube]

Wow, never heard of these Peoplemover turbolifts before, although they've been around for 20 years already. I see that one exists here in Berlin at the otherwise unremarkable S-Bahn station 'Rummelsburg Betriebsbahnhof' (and when I say unremarkable, I mean depressing ). I will try it out in honour of Tom and Herrn Schmid. Hope it won't be out of order by then.

[@Crafty266]

Den wollt ich auch erwähnen ;)

[@LordEmilous]

For some reason, I read the title as "Peoplemower" and was wondering almost entire video when does it start mowing people.

[@LRM12o8]

Peoplemowers are an American invention, though. Unsuspecting pedestrians call them "Ford Mustang"

[@rsk47reviews59]

I think you should be a *tad bit* concerned that you read, "people MOWER" and were looking forward to the execution of such a concept lmao

[@htf5555]

they already made that one. its called mg42

[@Momi_V]

The last time Germany started engineering things for mowing people the rest of the world was not amused...

[@GigglingChinchilla]

Wow, the way the inventor speaks is amazing.

[@avhuf]

probably heavy smoking.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

Sounds like Jaba The Hut

[@versus-7087]

Wir können alles außer Hochdeutsch

[@sixthgreeny1880]

@@Alex-cw3rz sorry but a bit more like crazy dave

[@leapoffaith20]

German railway: You only have 4 hours to install your complicated people mover. Herr Schmid: Hold my bratwurst.

[@armchairgeneralissimo]

Schmid even had an hour left to submit a complaint about how inefficient the railway is by wanting to close the tracks for longer than needed.

[@hanyuukawaiinanodesu]

Dude he's German you can just say "hold my beer"

[@UD503J]

@@hanyuukawaiinanodesu Hold my Hefeweizen maybe?

[@TrveIrrlicht]

*Spätzle

[@jubuttib]

@@UD503J I dunno, for some reason I'm getting a dobbel bock or perhaps an altbier vibe from Herr Schmid... =)

[@honeysmoments]

Live in a very close town to Altbach. I never thought of that elevator/Peoplemover as a special thing. Now i do and can appreciate it. Thanks!

[@cheesekingofdenmark6910]

This is one of those situations where a great little invention never really gets off the ground unless someone tries it out on a larger scale. It might still happen, but it's unlikely.

[@theKiwii]

Well, it kinda did get off the ground in a way: literally.

[@Quinicus]

Much more expensive than stairs

[@anna-flora999]

@@Quinicus much more accessible than stairs, too

[@cheesekingofdenmark6910]

@@Quinicus The entire point of the thing is that it isn't stairs. You know, for people who can't use stairs

[@sublivion5024]

@@cheesekingofdenmark6910 but if you install 2 vertical off-the-shelf lifts to the bridge deck on either side you have a solution with a much, much higher throughput which is much more reliable