While watching that video, my first thought was about safeguards. Will it stop if obstructed? How often has someone gotten injured or killed by such a device?
There are plenty of videos of people dying in regular elevators that lack the inner safety door.
Typical is the someone wheels a large object like a trash bin or stacked boxes and then the edge catches on a landing and crushes an occupant against the top rear corner.
I really want these to be a thing again. So many buildings have a pair of elevators that simply can't handle the various rushes during the day. Leave one traditional elevator for the edge cases, and replace the other with 2 or 4 paternoster cars.
What I mean is that the paternoster is usually smaller than an elevator. So in the vertical footprint of a typical elevator, I think you could fit 1 or 2 paternosters (2 to 4 cars, since each paternoster has 1 car in each direction looking vertically).
I’m waiting for a real world implementation of an elevator that moves horizontally and vertically. There are a number of promo videos for it, but nothing actualized.
The Schmid Peoplemover exists, and looks to be a one of a kind, it feels like these end up being more complex than it’s worth
Tom Scott video here: https://youtu.be/A2g4u9F9i90
