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How the Elevator Shaped Our World
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Automated Elevators Aren't Safe
The elevator industry went on a major campaign in the 1950s to make people comfortable with automatic elevators. The unions fought back against this, of course, and they went straight for public fear. They claimed that automatic elevators weren't safe; there were five times more accidents in automatic elevators than manual ones.
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