Why the World's Fastest Elevator Exists
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We just ned fast legs
Toyota Corolla
At 2:24 did you mean less efficient from a time perspective but saves a lot of space?
But i like talking about bricks.
this really deserved a full video on wendover. this video was too fast
He still managed to find a way to have planes in the video
Half as Airworthy confirmed
half as air worth? Lol
If that was a plane it would be the 737 max lol
beat me to it but 420th like so thats a nice consolation
He should have an aviation channel just like me
I believe you mean "half as wendover productions"
@@BirdRaiserE The joke of Airworthy comes from this vid (around 2:23) czcams.com/video/PB2RuEz2VV4/video.html
Well, that escalated quickly.
No, it *ELEVATED* quickly. 😜
*NO*
Wrong transport
Leg Bits™ idkwtfymbciaavvsiwp.
@@alexhaynes7983 hmm yes
"Why the World's Fastest Elevator Exists"
Answer - Because Elevators exist... the Fastest Elevator will always exist as long as Elevators exist.
there could be multiple equally fastest elevators tho
@@Tolyuhh but would they be really equally fast? maybe the speed differs about a really small amount
@@PeterAuto1 That would be far more likely. I'm just saying there is a minute possibility that there could be two (or even more) equally fast elevators at the top of that spectrum.
spitting straight facts over here I see
What if all existing elevators were broken? Then none of them would be the fastest
Fun fact, the Burj Khalifa is so tall that sunset occurs a few minutes later at the top than on the ground.
This is important for some Muslims traditions (e.g., Ramadan), so a law was passed that clarified that those living on the higher floors of the tower must wait two to three minutes after sunset to break their Ramadan fast.
"law was passed" seems like a redundant thing since Muslims and followers of previous versions of Islam (e.g. Jews) had discovered mountains long time ago lmao
@@iwatchwithnoads7480 Usually the whole area would go under one time "zone" if it's on a mountain. This is different because more than 99% live in the city below.
@@Pain9682 it's like a mountain elevator, we need to keep people from wanting to go to the top so they can break a fast 5 minutes sooner
"It's a petty thing that we should just deal with"
Instant mountain top - just push button!
@@VincentGonzalezVeg it's the other way, people who live on top can go to the ground floor to break a fast early
@randomguy9777 Malaysia's space agency, Angkasa, convened a conference of 150 Islamic scientists and scholars in 2006 to address the question, among others, of how to pray towards Mecca in space. A document was produced in early 2007 called A Guideline of Performing Ibadah (worship) at the International Space Station (ISS) and was approved by Malaysia's National Fatwa Council.
"Excuse me, how to get to floor 76?"
"First take the express to floor 60 then take the local line to floor 76"
My mom used to work in the 66th floor of what used to be the tallest building in the world (before its record was surpassed), and that's pretty much how her daily commute up was like
syabilazri What was that? Taipei 101?
Down the hall and to the left.
That sounds French.
@@syabilazri , Petronas Twin Tower??
Actually, the world's fastest elevator is in Wonka's Chocolate Factory
Technically, that's a Wonkavator, so it doesn't count.
Count dookus son has a nice elevator
the wonkavater.
It flies though
But comes with risk of vermicious knids
Tiny tower:
*laughs in 30 floors per second*
?
Joey Knight Tiny Towers is a mobile game, its really fun
I spent £800 on that game...
Harvey Davenport Why tho
@@minoreror9961 If something is entertaining enough for one person, they usually want to get the most out of it if possible. I have done that but with other games, but maybe with less money... I think? lol
1:50 my SimTower peeps?
I also was thinking the style looked similar
Yep
I was wondering if anyone else noticed that.
Half expected a sim copter to land on the helipad on its top. 😀
Idk where my disk went and I can't find the game online anymore. I miss it
Yoot Tower FTW
Because elevators exist, so one has to be the fastest
Otherwise knows as the Well-ordering principle
Yah
@@thehiddenninja3428 the well-ordering principle says that every (maybe infinite) subset of the natural numbers has a minimum element, which is something completely different. In this case, there is a maximum because the number of elements in finite.
@@aidankelley6422 Ah.
Thanks
From now on I only wanna see SimTower to explain elevators
"People, who mostly come from the ground..."
*Mostly*
I heard some took a plane and flew in... not so nice!
Die Nummer 1 no this is a common mistake
bush did 9/11 and it was an inside job
Newt, is that you?
Well there is a helipad at the top, so it really is only mostly.
Excluding in-house newborns, possibly.
The real question is: which 747 are you stacking, the 747-400 or 747-8?
Bruh
Yes
Or the 747SR
At 250 ft 2 in in length, eight 747-8 stack up to 2001 ft 4 in. The Shanghai Tower is 2073 ft. So doesn't matter either way.
@@khoado2060 I was going to write this...
4:58 lol For where it's put as "Japan (Shanghai)"
Saw that too lol
4:41 "Tourists are known for their limited intellectual ability"
*cough* Chinese *cough*
Americans aren’t much better either...
@@wormsblink2887 I agree 😅
Aussies on the other hand....
Worms Blink Death to America
Me: "How is he going to sneak planes into a video about elevators?"
Also me, 36 seconds later: 🤦🏻♂️
I laughed a lot hahaha
00:36
HAI: "Not all elevators are created equal"
Me: *Vigorously checks the American declaration of independence"
“Double Decker Elevator”
wat
For real tho, how does that work? Do they board both decks simultaneously?
@@jacobfreeland6881 Board one, go up a bit, board the other. At least that’s how it works for underground mine. Btw, underground mine have longer elevators than that. They can go over 2km.
@@jacobfreeland6881 Yes, they do.
@@cedricpomerleau5586 Isn't there a physical limit in elevator length? When the own weight of the steel cables can no longer be supported by themselves?
@@julnu Definitely. Near where I live, there's a 2.2km underground "elevator", it's the longest one in all occidental countries. The mine is actually 3km deep (it's the deepest mine in all Americas, look for Laronde mine in Quebec, Canada), but you need to take another "elevator" to go even deeper. I guess they stopped the elevator at 2.2km because they were reaching the point were it didn't make sense to go longer, the cable is having a hard time to support itself.
Oh and the motor in woud be an issue too. Even with a counter weight, the deeper you go, the closer to the surface the conterweight goes. That means you now have lot of cable on one side, but almost none on the other side, which isn't well balanced. Just to give you an idea, for a 2km shaft (another one, not the one I just talked about), you'll need about two 1600HP motors for the service cage (the elevator) and one 8400HP motor for the skip (the elevator to get the minerals to the surface). That's a lot of power and the kind of stuff that will go in the tens of millions really fast.
"An observation deck so u can pay to look down on the plebs" i wanna do that when i become rich..
Get ready for the taxes boy
If* not when, if
Ah see, but when you become rich, you can get people to pay YOU to look down on the plebs.
*if
bruh odds are you're not gonna get rich, and if you do odds are you won't be happy
At 4:59, it says Shanghai is in Japan lol
Guinness book of world records lmao
oof.........
www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-observation-deck
They've corrected the mistake
@@ravenousturtle8498 hmmm nope...
www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/106868-tallest-elevator-in-a-building
@@lisonli4683 I can't believe they made such a mistake
*_facepalm_*
HAI: Well, not all elevators are created equal
Merica: Did someone order fReEdOm
Murica: huh I honestly thought there was oil, Hey troops go back
* fascism
In 2010 I was in Cairo and I went to a 20 story building (the tallest building I have ever been in) there were two elevators, one for even floors ans the other for odd floors, if you got on the wrong one you can simply get to the nearest floor and use the stairs for one floor, I think it is a brilliant idea for a midrise building
Sounds like would take up same amount of space as 2 that touch everywhere to me unless they are stacked on top of each other
@@bena9369 Depending on how tall it is, there might be roughly enough people on each elevator so you can have one stop each floor for a ride. By splitting into two groups, you have each stop less often, with possivly more people getting down at once. This means fewer stops per ride and thus faster elevators
Woah, that’s almost as fast as a Toyota Corolla
_Wait, wrong channel_
wrong channel
But good one nonetheless
Shaii/ шай almost 😂
First I will take you on a tour of the car, and show you all of its quirks and features. Then I'm going to get out on the road and drive it.
Nice SimTower reference at 1:34 :)
That game was strangely good for a building management sim
Oh boy, I spent so many hours on that one
Miss that game so much!
I caught that too. That game was WICKED difficult
Gave me the nostalgia
2:45 THE ELEVATOR SKYSCRAPER
0:19 "Rooster measuring contest". Nice.
Did you know that the first elevator was also the fastest
For it’s time
Haha real fucking funny dipshit
Celestial Being Asian Danny Devito woah bit aggressive there buddy
Otherwise knows as the Well-ordering principle
Aaron Lord what (edit: I didn’t notice that celestial being Asian Danny de Vito was a name, I read it all at once)
Did you know that at the time of your birth you were the the youngest person on the planet and even in the universe?
This is so complicated it makes me want to take the stairs
"Tourists are known for their limited intellectual ability"
@@0xjrr lol
Hulk: ARRGH SO MANY STAIRS!
Well it’s more exercise
Thanks for the SimTower assets, I miss that game! Childhood nostalgia is strong...
My friend's dad was an engineer for the tower so when we were in Shanghai my mum got to ride it up to the top while the tower was still being completed. I wasn't allowed to go since I was still too young and it would have been dangerous for me to go up at such high speeds
My country is now replacing some 10-floor public housing apartment blocks with ~50-floor ones, which have faster lifts, but which some elderly are reportedly a bit scared of
oh buffy
10/10 for the SimTower reference, Sam! LOVED that game!
What is SimTower? Where to find it?
@@Alex-fh3yk It's an old PC / Mac game from the 1990s.
Came here for this, that moment gave me a very nice flash of Nostalgia :)
@@raptornugget5385 Project Highrise is fun, very similar, it has mods too so you can easily add whatever you want
NormIe
"why the worlds fastest elevator exists?"
Because elevators exist.
Otherwise knows as the Well-ordering principle
@LandonAnimations You missed this one.
Why do elevators exist?
I love the simtower references in the elevator demonstration bit!
When you put in SimTower reference, I wanted to sub you again. I LOVED SimTower.
Project Highrise.
@@chickeninabox 1:39 That is clearly SimTower's condos. Project Highrise was also just a building game, whereas SimTower was a vertical transport simulator.
This channel is really going up!
This is going to r/puns
stupid question tho. as long as earth has elevators there is one that is fastest.
This episode was quite uplifting
Bold Thanos you know about this sub called r/ihavereddit?
-_- really
The view from the Shanghai Tower’s observation deck is pretty incredible (when the pollution/smog isn’t impacting the view)
"Mostly because, according to my engineering degree, That's not a structurally sound building"
LMAO! Literally laughed out loud
*Gets three world records for one building*
Architects: I see this as an absolute win!
Also interesting was the building right next to it, Shanghai World Financial Centre (the one with the square hole in the top of it) was the tallest building (by occupiable floor, Taipei 101 has a spire that made it taller) and the tallest observation deck when built
I've been there, there's no sevage system. So they use poop trucks. Also the area besides Burj is terribly developed
Make a video about why the UK uses .co.uk instead of just .uk like the rest of the world (.us, .nl, .de)
South Africa uses .co.za I’m sure there are plenty of others.
@@springbok4015 but why do countries use the .co? It doesn't make sense to me.
Some countries think it's important to be able to tell the difference between commercial websites, organizations and networks and some don't? I know Japan and Korea use .co.jp and .co.kr
Julian de Rooij
.co is a company
.com is commercial
.gov is a government
.edu is education
.net is a network
.org is an organisation
And if you ever see a .mil it’s military (but most just use .gov)
Just helps distinguish what the website is used for
My guess is that it stands for Commonwealth since South Africa has it as well.
3:10 The best Elevator Enthusiast in the world!!! So happy that you gave DieselDucy a shoutout.
The Car Wash/Elevator Fanatic it could have been someone else, but we are happy that it was showing Dieselducy
Dieselducy technically is the most famous elevator filmer compared to rest of the channels out there
Yes, the most popular is only 60000~ subscribers.
3:05 THANKS FOR THE SHOUTOUT TO DIESELDUCY
Nothing like having a good ole fashioned rooster measuring contest.
I'd be rather... Concerned if someone showed me a long rooster... ;p
If rooster wasn't a euphemism, many of the things we do with them would be considered animal cruelty!
To quote a random comment on a Yogscast video: "I just found out cock fighting is done with chickens. 12 months of my life fucking wasted."
0:36 oh. I was wondering where was the link to airplanes. Is it just a meme on this channel at this point, and he does it on purpose?
Space noodles it’s basically a meme now
Both really
He is passionate about airplanes and aerial logistics. He therefore made this a gag on his secondary channel
also that elevator ascends at 3500 feet a minute, many aircraft can't match that rate of ascent..
@@tech4pros1 you can even a 747...without stalling.. Even the autopilot permits a parameter of 4800fpm
2:02 The tower looks like it was made in SimTower. Nice touch.
3:10 I know this guy as I watched his videos for over a decade. Make sure that you subscribe to his channel!
*Vertical Transportation System* or _lift_
Or elevator
You're not the only one 😅
@@JesSuPer443 *NO*
do you even lift bro
_WHY THE WORLD'S FASTEST ELEVATOR EXISTS..._
*Willy Wonka's Glass Elevator:* Hold my beer
Mr. Friendship It's not an elevator, it's a Wonkavator.
U mean hold my candy
I love the detail you put in. You even put a elevator machine in one of the elevator’s. These are details most people wouldn’t think about.
2:04 reminds me of Tiny Tower
Bro I love that game
The first sky lobby system in 1 and 2 WTC was amazing. I only enjoyed 9 months in 1 WTC before it was destroyed, but sky lobbies was one reason it was so cool.
I read somewhere that sky lobbies were invited for WTC because they were the tallest buildings in the world at the time and .
Were you in it when it was hit?
3:27 😂 I really hope this fantastically layered pun doesn’t go under-appreciated
Please explain
@@VoidKing666 Yeah, I replayed it like three times trying to decipher it and I just didn't get any of the layers
“Why the World’s Fastest Elevator Exists”
Well, if there’s at least one elevator, then one of them _has_ to be the fastest one…
I've been on that elevator in the Shanghai Tower. What was really cool was that they had someone giving a speech, giving basics about the elevator and building. They give the speech in English and Chinese and they have it timed to end at the moment the elevator arrives at the observation deck.
Loved the Sim Tower reference as the animated explanation for how elevators operate over multiple floors.
To answer the title: because when things have velocity, it's only natural for one to be the fastest out of its same kind.
Otherwise knows as the Well-ordering principle
@@thehiddenninja3428 can you stop spamming that
@@wacknesium There is no spam. There is only foolishness.
I just love this guy's humor
I think this was the best ad segue you've ever done.
Make a video about why the UK has different brands (Walkers instead of Lays, LYNX instead of AXE, Astra instead of Opel, etc.)
Oi never talk shit bout walkers
Come on man.... Every country has its own brands.
Walkers and Vauxhall* were kept because of name popularity in UK after they were bought by their respective owners
Same reason Carl's Jr and Hardees is the same company with two names.
Poor stairs. I can hear it crying in agony in this video
The elevator business has its ups and downs.... that Sim Tower is amazing!
So that's how you make more efficient elevators in theme hotel. If only it was possible
3:10 dieselducy reference XD. I already knew about him before this video came out
Me too.
extra internet points for you
I knew him since I was 6
4:58 Japan (Shanghai)
there's something off
Sounds right to me. It's that small island-nation city just south of Malaysia, right?
no its south of australia
you're actually 80iq
Shanghai isn't Japan.
Elevator: *exists*
HAI: I think we can work with this..
I'm so happy someone else mentioned the elevator enthusiast side of CZcams. I keep stumbling on it and every time I question if it happened or if I'm just going crazy.
"Why the World's Fastest Elevator Exists" = Because they're jealous of airplanes.
Brits: It's a lift *slurping tea intensifies*
Girl, do you mean "intensifies"? Sorry not being mean or anything.
Cielo Abueva girl?
The limitations of existing elevators in tall buildings really makes you appreciate the experimental system that german company is making.
Granted, the idea for it is seen all the time in sci-fi (and stuff like willy wonka's strange contraption)
But this company is seriously trying to create an elevator system where the cars are powered by linear induction and mechanisms allow them to go horizontally as well as vertically.
The key point with this design is not the sideways movement - it's that it allows multiple cars to occupy a single shaft, bypass lanes to exist, car storage, and so on.
In effect, with two shafts and maybe a few bypass and/or storage areas you can have dozens of lift cars in the same shaft, and even vary the number of cars dynamically as the needs of the system change.
Much like a road network, you'd have an 'up' shaft and a 'down' shaft, and the cars would simply swap shafts when they need to turn around.
This could, in theory, safety considerations permitting, replace dozens of shafts in a building with... Two.
The advantages of that should be obvious, but... There are still a few open questions, particularly about the reliability and safety of such a system, which is why so far the only installation is an experimental system.
But it could radically reduce the footprint of elevator systems in tall buildings, and could even vastly increase capacity without radically altering the footprint even in smaller ones.
And while not essential, the ability for the lift to move horizontally is a nice bonus. (it also makes it possible to turn the whole thing into a network, rather than independent shafts even where there are shafts at opposite ends of the building.)
This ability to join shafts across different parts of the building would also create redundancy, since, just like a road or rail network, there may be multiple ways to get around the system, and it could dynamically route stuff around problems in smaller subsections of the network.
This would solve a lot of issues buildings currently have...
But only if it works of course. (which it does, in demonstrations, but whether it works in the real world...)
Very interesting how vertical transportation can vary in so many different ways! Lots of elevator systems in the office towers in downtown Toronto have a very efficient system when it comes to traveling by vertical transportation! It's called Destination Dispatch (this name came from ThyssenKrupp)! Other companies give this as their product a different name. For example, Schindler Elevator Corporation calls it PORT! I went on an in-depth tour of the MAJOR modernization project done by Schindler at Scotia Plaza (40 King Street West) and their Mid/High-Rise & High-Rise banks with double deck elevators (they are also called "Stacked" elevators there) and those two elevator banks' original Gearless Schindler 7000 models reached max speeds of up to 1,400 feet per minute for the High-Rise and 1,200 feet per minute for the Mid/High-Rise. Now with the newer Schindler 7000 AC Gearless Traction machines... they now reach speeds up to 1,600 feet per minute (8 meters per second)! Very smooth too! Thanks for making this video! 😊
Hooray for Sim Tower! Along with Sim Ant, one of my favorite under-appreciated games!
Project Highrise.
I think the vertical transport system can be better explained showing how the various designs differ and which design is optimal in which circumstances.
I haven't seen simtower in DECADES! So it's hilarious you used it to explain how the elevators work
"Welcome to the bottom of the barrel"
About time someone greeted me.
Came looking for a SimTower reference. Was not disappointed. :)
What is SimTower? Where to find it?
@@Alex-fh3yk SimTower is a building simulator, lots of fun with that in the 90s
As an electrical engineer I'd really love to know how the provide all that power to all those floors/units. It must be a HUGE busduct system with a gigantic switch gear on the first floor.
I've done mantance on a 21 floor building, what's interesting is that they hand a few different power rooms so basically I think the bridge kalifa has maybe 20 connects
@@sdfxcvblank5756 Yeah I'm sure they have substations within the building running high voltage up there.
@@shinigami052 oh you might be right about that, I'm not sure if OSHA would be to happy though
Really well explained as always
That Elevator deserves a picture on the Guinness world of records
Lived in dubai for 18 years and slowly I've noticed an increase of mentions over the years.
Hard to think I used to live in this obscure place that no-one had ever heard of before 10 years ago.
Anybody remember Roald Dahl's ' Charlie and the Great glass elevator ' ?
Me. What was the name of the aliens? Kneeds?
Wow! Love the throwback to Sim Tower, did you know it's the 2nd Sim Tower game? The original designer made a game called Yoot Tower and Maxis loved it.
he still managed to put everyone down (the building owners, the architects, the tourists, the natives, the viewers) in a video about means to literally taking you up.
To transport people quickly... I'm guessing
I absolutely ADORE the SimTower allusion!!!
Project Highrise.
Loved the SimTower oconography.
I did not expect a simtower reference in a modern video. Well done.
747's : half as interesting : Toyota corrolas : real life lore
I guess Half as Interesting have played Yoot Tower / Sim Tower. 💚
graphic is literally from sim tower haha, i love it!
welp, time to fire up dosbox. now i need to play simtower
I believe that lifts going @ this speed also have fairings on top & below the lift car/cabin to reduce drag as well as dampers & springs attached between the car/cabin & its guide wheels & rails, to reduce vibrations when the car is moving
How do I confirm my enrolment in real engineering university city?
I want a 20+ minute video on the wendover channel about the economics of elevators and infrastructure.
These are planes attached to buildings
5:20 This is not the only reason. Another reason is that the technique of stopping safely from a high speed situation is more difficult than the technique of gaining speed.
1:36 Love the uses of Sim Tower. ❤❤❤
Double decker elevator? That sounds like a bucket list experience.
Try a paternoster elevator too
They are used in a lot of famous high rise buildings such as Empire State Building, Willis Tower, etc.
-TRG- they do for the office levels
0:42 shout out to real engineering
Me: "I gotta get to floor 78 in two minutes!"
Elevator: Time to shift into *MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE*
Great video. I always wondered why they staggered elevators.
Thanks for the coupon, I just signed up to curiosity stream.
World's fastest elevator: exists.
Nobody:
Half as interesting: why?
4:13
Elevator discrimination
CANCEL HIM!1!1!1!1!1!11!1!1!!1!1
My emotions are quite elevated after this video...
Nah it’s the elevator of terror now that’s fast