Woman gets trapped in parking carousel

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[–]yetanotherone_sigh 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

There are a whole lot of remarkable things happening here.

  1. That woman is too stupid to live. If she survived this, she will step in front of a bus soon anyway. Some people are just too self absorbed to be able to function in society.

  2. China as a society does not value human life in the slightest. There is no way for the parking garage to sense the presence of a loose human being in its bowels. Even a car wash has motion detectors and electric eyes in the US. It should be interlocked all to heck and gone. The dropping elevator platform should sense that nothing is on it or around it before moving, and a moving barrier or gate should drop down around its perimeter before it moves. Likewise, before the conveyor belt launches the car onto the elevator, it should also check for the presence of a rogue human.

  3. There are people who cannot take care of themselves and have no sense of self preservation. What if that was a toddler or an elderly person who couldn't move fast or think things through? What if it was someone in a wheelchair? What if it was your family dog?

  4. The combination of all of these things points to deadly outcomes once in a while. They will continue for as long as Chinese culture accepts this "dog eat dog" world with no consequence to what we would consider major safety violations in everyday life.

Anyone know if she died?

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Apparently she survived and only suffered minor injuries. It says her left leg was trapped under the wheel: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5155281/Woman-hit-car-automated-parking-lift.html

She got super lucky.

Also it's the second incident at this exact car place, according to the article someone drove their car down that hole 4 floors and luckily survived. Clearly this place needs better safety markings and equipment.

[–]yetanotherone_sigh 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

She's fortunate to have lived through that. It could have ended much differently.

They might start with a drop-down barrier like the ones they use on draw bridges.