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I .. failed to understand their 'speed test'.

Unless my English is way worse than I thought they're saying that they managed to get 50 students to the top floor by paternoster in ~10 minutes, while the elevator .. managed to bring up 10 persons in the same time?

1) That building seems to have 18 floors. Not 200. What kind of elevator is that..? Is it even moving?

2) The camera shows the inside of the elevator when the comparison begins. I count 13 heads.

(in the video at 4:00) "The paternoster got its 50 students to the 18th floor in 9 minutes, 20 seconds. In the same time the conventional lift only managed to transport 10 people to the top"

I like riding a paternoster. But this comparison seems a bit off. Or alternatively the elevator is really, really slow and happens to lose a couple of people on every ride..



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