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Re:Google is officially releasing Fuchsia OS, starting with ... by mikepurvis on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @09:58AM (#27276812)
"An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience."
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Re:Google is officially releasing Fuchsia OS, starting with ... by wlesieutre on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @11:28AM (#27278112)
I know it’s a joke but if the failure mode is “brakes don’t work” on an escalator full of people, it is much worse than stairs
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Re:Google is officially releasing Fuchsia OS, starting with ... by mikepurvis on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @12:02PM (#27278547)
Very true— I would definitely imagine that escalator brakes are a thing that fail closed in the absence of power, but clearly there are failure modes (probably a rare confluence of multiple concurrent failures) where this kind of thing can happen, such as that incident in Rome in 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1SjQfwLieU

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Re:Google is officially releasing Fuchsia OS, starting with ... by wlesieutre on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @12:41PM (#27279091)
Another in China in 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADb57ysvCbU

https://coconuts.co/hongkong/news/engineer-gets-2-months-in-... (misleading URL, actually suspended sentence)

Rather that than an falling elevator, but it still doesn't look fun

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