<story><title>How can a ski lift allow turns to the left and the right on its route? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Av3jGKee8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moffkalast</author><text>You know, it really baffles me how these things can operate safely with the general population. No way for the operator to keep track of the whole thing and thus no way to stop in an emergency, countless ways to injure yourself or others, yet there seems to be hardly any regulation for them (given the laughably sorry state some of them are in) and apparently not that many injuries either.&lt;p&gt;Compare that to most household products with a thousand warning labels for things that are common sense and&amp;#x2F;or completely harmless. Like do idiots not go skiing or something?</text></item><item><author>euske</author><text>In Japan, there were a couple of ski lifts that make almost 90-degree turn, called &amp;quot;bending lift (屈曲リフト)&amp;quot;. Near the turning point they put up a warning sign like &amp;quot;please hold tight or you might be thrown off&amp;quot;. As a kid I always enjoyed the experience though. Sadly all of them have been torn down by about a decade ago, due to its high maintenance cost.&lt;p&gt;cf. &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cable.cocolog-nifty.com&amp;#x2F;sakudo&amp;#x2F;2006&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;post_d5e1.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cable.cocolog-nifty.com&amp;#x2F;sakudo&amp;#x2F;2006&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;post_d5e1.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdavis703</author><text>There’s a lot of ways to die or become severely injured while skiing. I imagine that alone weeds out people who need warning labels on blenders.</text></comment>
<story><title>How can a ski lift allow turns to the left and the right on its route? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Av3jGKee8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moffkalast</author><text>You know, it really baffles me how these things can operate safely with the general population. No way for the operator to keep track of the whole thing and thus no way to stop in an emergency, countless ways to injure yourself or others, yet there seems to be hardly any regulation for them (given the laughably sorry state some of them are in) and apparently not that many injuries either.&lt;p&gt;Compare that to most household products with a thousand warning labels for things that are common sense and&amp;#x2F;or completely harmless. Like do idiots not go skiing or something?</text></item><item><author>euske</author><text>In Japan, there were a couple of ski lifts that make almost 90-degree turn, called &amp;quot;bending lift (屈曲リフト)&amp;quot;. Near the turning point they put up a warning sign like &amp;quot;please hold tight or you might be thrown off&amp;quot;. As a kid I always enjoyed the experience though. Sadly all of them have been torn down by about a decade ago, due to its high maintenance cost.&lt;p&gt;cf. &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cable.cocolog-nifty.com&amp;#x2F;sakudo&amp;#x2F;2006&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;post_d5e1.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cable.cocolog-nifty.com&amp;#x2F;sakudo&amp;#x2F;2006&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;post_d5e1.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swader999</author><text>You could say the exact same thing about elevators. There&amp;#x27;s a lot of regulation, inspection and safety features that isn&amp;#x27;t well known about these lifts. But it does exist and the safety record is impressive. The drive to the hill is a much higher risk.</text></comment>