Paternoster: Eastern Europe's Elevator of Death

[Meuh974]

0:48 And then it cuts you in half

[seucd]

I live in Umea, northern Sweden and the university hospital here has the same type of elevator.

[czechart]

Dude!! This video was taken in Prague which is in CENTRAL Europe!!! Different culture, different economy, different everything from so called Eastern Europe!!

[podelcog]

@czechart The UN classifies the Czech Republic as Eastern Europe. Plus, it's sexier for a video title. SEO, and all that.

[jaunis]

@podelcog Like a boss.

[czechart]

@podelcog the UN is outdated monster still living in the 80's. Any other sources classifies the Czech Republic as Central European country! I know where I am from!!!

[AJBiskit]

These were quite popular in Britain too at one point, which is decidedly Northern Europe. Tonnes of Universities and the like used them, and a few still have them. And I think they all had safety mechanisms and emergency stop buttons, so the only real danger is either total destructive mechanical failure (unlikely) or human stupidity (more likely)

[PRiME2020]

A) get a small branch and insert in doorway, does it severe the stick in half? There is likely a space in between entrance and upper rising so that its difficult to get anything jammed in as it will slide sideways, other objects might prove better choices for testing.

B) Get a teddy bear or whatever put in elevator at upper or lower end and see if it simple circles around again unharmed, I think you will find this to be the case.

Elevators likely look more dangerous then they are.

[wytefang]

Classic Euro crap - favoring design over function. Derp!

[R0WMaC]

@wytefang shut upu faggot fuck

[alphaprawns]

You have a very soothing voice.

[mrgodai]

real time platform game

[svujovic85]

grow some balls...

[anothernewblet]

@svujovic85 Grow a brain.

[mustermanization]

hay i tryed thte and some one was going in to th 1 foller and faild

[robloxmatthew]

This is the same thing like escalators

[er10b]

you'd need to have a stop switch on each car if an old lady with a granny scooter needs to get on...

[highskyeagle]

I saw another one also in Prague in a university, someone was trying to teach me how to use it I was like no freaking wayyyy, Im taking the stairs...

[moha56]

i was in that exact paternostar yesterday. was pretty funny

[oriolesfan61]

They have killed people. Case closed.

[thedancinggymnast]

@oriolesfan61 I'm pretty sure most things have killed people however you still see them. Cars, planes, guns???

[100DarkDude]

but how it is going down again???

[bigclivedotcom]

Paternosters usually have a safety trip wire at the top of the door frame so that any objects protruding at the top of the door frame will stop the machine. They have a much higher throughput than ordinary lifts because the next car is literally right after the last one. The cars do ride over the top and under the bottom while remaining vertical, so you can ride right round safely.

[tgseason12]

They're AWESOME :3

[manofiorn]

I believe you have the same shoes that I do, grey Vans checker slip ons?

[merstrand]

In Denmark there is one in the Parliament building

[coondogtheman1234]

I'll take the stairs.

[Balarick]

people have rode over the top and under the bottom. missing that bottom floor lets you ride through the bottom.

[Risicat]

I don't see how it's any more scary than escalators. And they're everywhere. In paternosters, you'll have to be really unlucky to get killed. Escalators pretty much Eat children.

I think paternosters are cool.

[lunasspecto]

If you stay on one of these past the top floor, nothing terrible happens to you; you just get gently lifted over the top and brought back down on the other side.

[evercharmer]

Oh man, I didn't even think about what might happen if you didn't get off. What if you had a stroke or something on one or were otherwise incapacitated?

What happens if it breaks while people are on, or what if you did get caught in one, does it just keep going?

As cool as it looks, it;s just not worth it. I ever see one of those I'm taking the damn stairs.

[Scarafax]

In the Netherlands there are still 7 paternoster elevators but only two of them are still in use.

[Azarien]

when you go to the top or to the bottom, you are transported horizontally to the opposing shaft and start moving the other direction.

[SCPH77004]

Wait... Praha is in Czech Republic, which is in Central Europe and not in Eastern...

Anyway, quite a cool video :3

[matthewtchernev123]

what happens when it ends does it reverse

[soyuzize]

Who is affraid of paternosters mustn´t go to Praha :-))

[generalblight83]

Did you notice all the dead bodies lying around? WOAH.....

[Czafa]

@generalblight83 i go by one of them every day and you can often see blood stains on the floor or on the walls of the cabin caused by dumb people who don't get out on the last floor and end up in the machinery.

[RMate24]

You can find another one in Wroclaw/Poland about 300 km drive from Praha. The Elevator is located at Old Market Square in an office building a HQ of BZ WBK Bank, the building is a former HQ of Deutsche Bank.

[sTryskaCz]

@RMate24 you can find another one i think about 500meters from this one :D in prague :) this was in Lucerna Passage and another is in Ymca - street "na porici"

[podelcog]

And of course I'm exaggerating about the "elevator of death" part, but they are tricky for sure, and would pose all sorts of problems for the elderly, kids, etc. You've got to be careful.

[jcvjcvjcvjcv]

@podelcog

They win massively on capacity though.

[belkin541]

@podelcog naprostý bezpečný výtah.nevidím v tom názvu výtah smrti nic.

[podelcog]

Thanks for the post. Good point about the bikes.

[HifiCentret]

Yeah sad to see these go. They're efficient and cool. Remember as a kid when my dad and me visited my mom working late at a local hospital. We always started to go down even we were in the basement and up over the top even though she worked on top floor. Totally cool for a 10 year old boy. (There was signs telling just to be calm and don't panic) How many people are killed on bikes? Quite a few and many even their own fault. Are bikes being phased out? No.

[coe182]

Typical transportation in Hamburg / Germany...

[RobR386]

The video is cool, but the narrator is completely wrong, paternosters are not dangerous, they are a very efficient way of moving people from floor to floor, like a vertical escalator.

What has killed a lot of these off is maintenance costs, as the backbone of these devices are a chain drive, which once worn out can be costly to replace, also in the UK, health and safety had a lot to do with there demise, identifying a hazard that really doesn't exist.

I'd like to see these bought back into use.

[MrUNIXman]

@RobR386 I agree with u there, UK are to OTT with imaginary health and saftey hazards. I like to see more of these paternosters about they are more effient than lifts for quick access.

[MrUNIXman]

at 1:30 about going to the top, I rode it around at the hospital, it just goes round so u dont end up upside down or get caught up in the gears

[MrUNIXman]

I just rode on this today at Northwick Park hospital, I love them they are very interesting.

I think anything is dangerous these days, including elevators and escalators

[012tusia]

Seriously, "elevator of death"? If you say that 5 people died using it why don't you add: "Five people were killed by paternosters from 1970 to 1993" (wikipedia). That's like 23 years... The comment for this video is like talking that flying is dangerous coz aircrafts can fall... How many people die in car accidents? Why don't we stop driving?

[ohxbjvan]

The narrator is wrong. It's not that paternosters are dangerous, it's that people were afraid of them.