I finally rode the weird, curved German elevator.
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Published 2023-10-09
Camera: Maximilian Unger
Producer: Viktor Sramo at Klein Aber
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All Comments (21)
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Love that youβd have to take the stairs either from or to the elevator. True German accessibility.
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"Germany, you can stop emailing me - I have finally taken a trip on your elevator" is the single most Tom Scott sentence ever uttered.
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I express my gratitude to you on behalf of the entire German people
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I love that Hannover claims to have the only curved elevator in the world. I went to college in the St. Louis area and did a study abroad program in Germany with Leibniz University. It was part of our presentation that we both claim to have the only curved elevators in the world.
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My takeaway from this video is that we (germans) need to find more strange elevators to ask Tom to make videos about them
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Imagine being pestered for years about using an elevator and when you finally do, you still have to climb 5 floors of stairs π
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I absolutely adore the solution to leveling it. Not every problem is significant enough to warrant the complexity required to solve it! I've worked with so many engineers who would hunger at the challenge without really considering if maybe they should just not touch.
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That is really cool! I like the pragmatism of it - self levelling floor? Clever tilting cage? No, just go with a non-level floor for a minute - it's not going to hurt you.
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The shots of Tom marching impatiently to the lift while the lady is languidly explaining it's history are killing me
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Only in Germany would they invent some new and crazy engineering marvel to get around a small inconvenience
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As a german who wrote this elevator and thought "meh, it's an elevator", i am very happy for you, that you enjoyed it.
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As a German I've found it really interesting over the years just how often Tom ended up in my country for these videos. We truly have some interesting stuff here.
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I'd always imagined Tom Scott to be the kind of person to take multiple steps at a time
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As a Hannoveranian, I can confirm that there are so many tourists that I never visited it.
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As a German thank you for teaching me about this elevator. I had no clue we got a curved elevator. I guess I have to visit Hannover now.
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Seeing Tom Scott in a place where you commute to work every day presenting something which you also used a couple times feels odd... and kinda cool! Thanks for the video, Tom. As a Hanoverian I can proudly say that I never pestered you about any of this.
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Tom needs to make an elevator series.
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Damn it now we need to find something else to keep emailing him about π
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I lived in Hannover area 29 years, went even to school there for some years. I knew this elevator existed but never cared. I moved abroad last year and when I came back to visit my family I finally went up this summer. It took me more than 30 years and I needed to become a tourist to ride that elevator.
