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Re:Paris Had a Moving Sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison ... by swores on Sunday November 02, 2025 @10:29PM (#45795591)
The too-fast one in Paris was 12km/h, not 4km/h which would be OK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_walkway#Trottoir_roulan...

Re:Paris Had a Moving Sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison ... by brohee on Monday November 03, 2025 @02:38AM (#45796713)
I took it many times, it didn't feel particularly dangerous but you had to pay more attention than on a regular moving walkway. What ultimately killed it was reliability, availability was too low. With more deployed I guess the kinks would have slowly disappeared, but the market just doesn't seem to be there.
Re:Paris Had a Moving Sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison ... by natmaka on Monday November 03, 2025 @07:06AM (#45798206)
Maybe because they began to iron out problems and saw the TCO rise too much.