The narrator sounds like she's passing gossips about elevators ''like hollywood is like literally lying to you"

"Hollywood is lying to you" Oh wow I can't believe that Hollywood would lie to me

I love how elevators are so safe that what she referred to as a "catastrophe" all the people survived with minor injuries.

"Elevators are safer than cars." I guess I should stop driving my car up a flight of stairs to get to my apartment.

I remember on an episode of Mythbusters they were testing the myth of jumping during an elevator freefall, and they had to use a very old elevator -- far less sophisticated than any modern elevator -- in an abandoned building that was literally falling apart; and they STILL had to disconnect the safety mechanism to get it to fall.

It sounds like she's asking a question at the end of every sentence

I've always been scared an elevator would break into my house and kill me in my sleep, but this went unaddressed in your video.

She sounds like she’s learning as she reading.

In movies they usually have spikes at the top and bottom of the shaft

Elevators falling isnt what scares me about elevators. Its elevators that fall or move when people are walking out the door. I thought it only happened on China but recently in NYC someone was crushed by an elevator going down wedging him with the floor and the elevator.

Narrator: Elevators can't fall like in the movies. Also Narrator: Describes an incident in which an elevator falls like in the movies.

This girl sounds personally offended that people are afraid of elevators

why does every sentence sound like a question?

Wondering how the elevator descends through the ratchet brakes in normal descents? That wasn't mentioned.

I have to say, that something being "just a human error" isn't much of a consolation, when that's one of your biggest fears. A lot of things are safe in perfect conditions, and only fail because of human intervention, or rather, usually, lack thereof. And I even live in a country where regulations are strict, and therefore such accidents are less commonplace. But it only takes one screw up. In a perfect world, all these accidents could be prevented (most rollercoaster accidents can be attributed to this). But maybe some things need to be idiot-proof. Ooor.. maybe I need to learn to be less of a control freak and accept that all man-made things carry a certain risk (Note: I am not at all afraid of elevators)

"More common place something is, less we understand how it works."... this is really good quote... I will steal that! :D

The narrator seems more suitable for telling stories instead of informative information.

The narration is strange, there is no natural flow and it sounds choppy af. I have noticed that your channel often has a strange narration for the videos

I have a phobia about elevators. I no longer have a valid reason for that phobia. This video actually helped me today.

Thanks to everyone that pointed out the narration, now I can’t finish the vid

“It’s impossible to happen”. ... proceeds to give an example of it happening

The narrators uptalk is a distraction.

Thanks for creating the only elevator explanation video on the internet that makes sense.

I've always noticed the name Otis on elevators but never really thought of how big the company is. Zimbabwe, china , South Africa, USA, Japan, UK, Australia. I've seen elevators with that name. Wow🙌🏼🙌🏼

I'm more afraid of something going wrong with the door. Either it closing on me, or the elevator dropping as I'm walking through it crushing me against the floor.

Is the narrator ok? she sounds like she's crying.

There’s something about her cadence that’s really bugging me....

This was SO interesting and extremely fascinating! I never knew any of this, and wow does it make me view elevators differently.

Videos about elevators have their ups and downs. But elevator humor works on many levels.

Sounds like an elevator paid them to make this 👀👀

With this narrator it feels like the title of this video should be "Hey Idiot, This is Why Elevators Are Safe"

Wow this is scary. I was working as an Electrician in the John Hancock building in 2018 but was laid off in October. Had I stayed there another month I may have been on that Elevator!

Elevators without elevator music aren’t actual elevators

"Hollywood is lying to you." "No!"

2:59 why does it sound like you're about to cry?

Forgot to turn the safety chain back on... That's very reassuring 😅

Once, when my brother and I were young, he was leaning against some elevator doors when they suddenly opened without the elevator actually being there. He didn't fall thankfully, but I still avoid elevators because of how much that scared me

She sounds like “the volume on this bus is UNAcceptABLE”

someone has died from a modern elevator when he walked out and cable snapped. His death is actually on youtube. My condolences to his family

Despite what 98% of the comments saying about the narrator, The facts you have stated make perfect sense and I understand why Elevators are safer than Escalators. The movies just try to make it have more action even for elevator scenes.

Thanks for elevating my understanding.

This has been one of the most oddly reassuring KZfaq videos I’ve ever watched.

Cheddar: Holywood is lying to you Me: WOW. I never knew😲

I’ve always trusted elevators until the 8:50 mark: “Maintenance workers turned off the safety chain to do maintenance, and forgot to turn it back on; resulting in catastrophe”. Looks like leg day is every day now... sigh...

Why is she talking like that?

I really like the channel and it's videos but I physically can't listen to this narration. There are so many wired stops in the middle of the sentence. Why?

"it's probably not going to happen" Thanks but no thanks. I'll take the stairs to the 95th floor

This video helps my claustrophobia a little. I’ve been terrified of elevators my whole life, and films are partly to blame for that.

People at the 1853 world fair in New York: Poggers! Elevators are now safe, crab rave!

But getting stuck still sucks.

seeing the elevator brake being displayed must have been like watching someone drive a car full speed right into a wall and walk out without even needing to readjust his clothing

I like how Cheddar uses an "elevator fall" from Skyscraper, whe the whole point of the elevator falling was to being the people inside to safety by passing though the fire

why is the background at 6:04 a map of paris tho

Having watched this some time ago I've been stuck in an elevator today. My friends would have panicked and be worried more than they should have I not told them about the multiple safety mechanisms of elevators So thanks Cheddar

Why do all of your narrators either sound like valley girls or surfer bros?

thank you so much for telling me this, I was afraid of elevators but after I watched your video I think I can stop worrying to much about them just falling down and killing me

Does she think KZfaq is an elementary school?

She's clearly narrating from home

The same holds true with air brakes in Hollywood. Few people realize that air brakes on trucks, trains, etc are applied when there is no pressure, and release when they are pressurized. Most movies and TV shows show a vehicle with a severed air brake hose careening out of control as it picks up speed with nothing to stop it. The exact opposite would occur though if a hose is severed...The vehicle would abruptly stop. You can thank George Westinghouse for this invention as well, over 120 years ago!

Great video - i have been sharing this non stop with all my friends who has spoken to me about this topic. Can you do a similar video on aircraft and turbulence please?

Damn, I got here so early the video is still in 480p

Why did I see Otis' invention as a centipede crawing along the elevator lol

Thanks, Ali, for a great presentation. I have always been curious about "stuff". So when I see workmen working on something, I stop and watch and ask questions. I found out all about this when I was 11. In 1964. ))

You are 100% totally correct. With all the modern safety devices on passenger elevators now days the chance of a modern elevator falling is slim. Plus they are required to be periodically inspected by a elevator maintenance technician.

In the last day of 2019 in Brazil a family died because the elevator fell from the ninth floor. It's rare, but may happen.

I love how casually gloss over that safety systems can just be turned off, and ignore the ways people actually die in elevator accidents.

Always remember, if you're in an elevator and the floor counter says something like "OK" and it's flashing and make it look like something is malfunctioning, it's most likely not. I don't know why it does that, but it's most likely not. Wait at least 5 minutes before calling the rescue team if the elevator won't budge or open its doors.

Great video, good narration. Ty

1:49 is that Wolverine?

Everybody's annoyed by the uptalk I'm just like "I'm on the internet and older than three. I don't need you to spend half the video explaining what an elevator is"

Great Video!!! My only problem is the comparison of elevators and escalators as Modes of Transportation. I get that they "move people" but they shouldn't be compared to things like cars.

My ex-stepdad is an elevator engineer. He builds and designs elevators for a living. He get's all pissed off every times he sees an elevator fall, bet in a movie or on tv. "That's impossible" he shouts, then proceeds to hold a lecture of how elevators work and all the fancy features of modern elevators. Btw, elevators are not airtight, you can't run out of oxygen should you be trapped in one. To this day I still can't watch Speed without hearing his lecture in my head.

When the video is still at 480p lol

Nobody died from a fallen elevator? I remember the news few months ago about a NewYork man who got his head cut off by a fallen elevator, which was also seen on CCTV

The elevator cables at the space needle have been used since the 1960s and have shown no signs of slowing down. Now that's quality craftsmanship.

I was an Elevator tech in the Navy this video is very accurate.

I see we've gone back to the days of Standard Def videos. Excuse me while I grab my cyanide pills.

When you have to pad the runtime by talking slowly and waiting till 7:28 to answer the question

Good video, some additional clarifications, the video only covers traction elevators, or elevators that have a hoisting machine, a counterweight, and hoist ropes with safeties. Older traction elevators may not have the rope brake unless they have been upgraded to have them. finally direct hydraulic elevators are not typically provided with Safeties unless they are of the roped hydraulic variety, or safeties have been added for some other reason (ie as a an additional measure of safety for a very old single bottom hydraulic elevator). Hydraulic elevators are becoming less common as new installations thankfully.

List of things that are extremely safe but are thought to be dangerous -planes -high speed railways -roller coasters -nuclear power plants -elevators

Please stop trying to sound dramatic with this unnatural inflection on every single sentence. It's so repetitive and it made me stop watching.

dear audio commentator if you don't like your job than let somebody else on the microphone ...

There was a news story where a boy was waiting for his dad in a lift, and he held the doors, causing it to enter nudge mode. He then used an umbrella to try to reopen the doors, but it didn't work, since the lift disabled its beam sensor. Then the umbrella got stuck and caused the lit to free-fall. What really happened was that the doors were closed enough to connect the safety circuit, and the lift started moving, and since the building had lots of floors, the lift moved fast. If it really free-falled, it would have gone up thanks to the counterweight, but the emergency brake would be applied because of the safety mechanism described in this video.

Don't forget the air pressure when an elevator falls quickly, it only have a narrow space around them so that the air will slow down the elevator

Chinese elevators would like to have a word with you.

480p Gang

thanks for detail explanation

I knew there were safety mechanisms but not too this degree! Very cool video!

"They're even safer than cars" Child, wild lions are safer than cars. There's a reason they're referred to as the worst form of transportation

If an elevator goes down is it a descendator? 🤔🤔🤔

2:59 made me giggle "the elevator FEYHLL! ...but only a few inches"

This really cured a little my fear of elevators. I absolutely hate using them at work, because they are old and got stuck a lot in the past.

Europe's elevators are even more safe than the rest of the world. Highest safety standards.

it's the assumptions of the writer/producer of this video that ALL elevator systems are built according to these specifications. THEY ARE NOT

I just looked on Wikipedia, and there are several people who have died from falling elevators. Many deaths are from planes/trains damaging elevators, many more in construction/mining elevators, several having severed cables. So what about a traditional cable elevator in a public setting? Looks like 7 people died in 1989 in a hospital in Spain when the cables disconnected from the cabin and the elevator freefell to the bottom. Safety brakes failed to engage. In 1903 an elevator fell 6 stories at the Donnelly Building in Pittsburgh when the cable was overloaded and snapped. Another in 1958 at a dam in Australia, cable snapped, killing 4. 1932 in Chicago, cable snapped killing 3 and injuring 7. Clarendon Building in NYC in 1920, cable snapped killing 2 and injuring 16. In 2018 at the John Hancock Center in Chicago, the elevator fell 84 stories but stopped before hitting the bottom, after the cable snapped, and was trapped behind concrete walls. Had the elevator started falling 11 floors sooner might have been a different story. Even if it was possibly caused by technician error, it's was still a nearly fatal accident from cable failure. The Calgary Tower in Calgary Alberta Canada free fell after cables broke, but the brakes stopped them. Then the brakes were released and they only stopped the second time because the cables tangled in the pulley system. So I'll go ahead and say that "no one dying" in a cable elevator isn't true, and even if you narrow the time period it's largely thanks to luck. Also 236BC to 1820AD is less than 2000 years, not over.

2:13 the brake was actually on top of the car.

Cheddar: Elevators never free fall Also Cheddar: In 2018 in Chicago an elevator free fell

"It's probably not going to happen" is enough to make you worry.

Great explanation and well I never had a fear of elevators, I did heavily dislike escalators. And in some ways I am glad I had that fear when I was younger considering all the issues people have been having with crocs and escalators. Talk about a bad combination of good ideas! I do not recommend looking that one up on KZfaq! It was always the transition from not moving to moving and having to get over the gap, once I was on I was fine and getting off was reasonably OK.

Having worked in high-rise elevator shafts, and knowing and working alongside at least a dozen elevator constructors, I would have no problem standing in an elevator car at the top of an elevator shaft while the cables were cut. Theyre soooooo safe.