An elevator with no safety

 

This is interesting.  We used to have boiler explosions.   The explosion could clear a block in the city.  Did we have the woke wanting to ban all boilers.  No.  Engineers added safety.  A hashed up system has about a 1 in 10,000 chance of a big failure.  That is related to human nature.  Almost any engineered mechanism has those odds.  Think of a window washer that just uses one rope.

Society as a whole can't stand 1 in ten thousand odds for a single system.  Window washers fall all the time.  So, we add safety, in the form of backup systems.

Elevators used to plummet down the shaft and kill everybody in them.  That could not stand, since nobody would go into a high-rise.  You wouldn't believe all the backup systems added to elevators, and you don't hear about plummets.

Historic crap is always a problem.  Beautiful brick buildings all fall down in earthquakes.  Do we get rid of all of them?  No, the leftwingers love old brick buildings.

Finally, we have historic cable cars.  San Francisco, we have the big guy clamp on the cable, and the car goes up and down.  I don't know about the extra safety there.  But this Lisbon system, and most funiculars seem to be a single cable, and the down car pulls up the up car.  If the cable connection breaks, there should be at least two clutch systems that brake the car.  I know that the Sanfran guy has a brake.  That's standard with elevators.

But you can't muck with historical systems, or the leftwingers would kill you.  Now, I put 80% on no backup system, but if two backup systems also failed, then we have one in a million odds staring us in the face.