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...operatorless PRTs will sharply reduce payrolls, which amount to 60% to 70% of the operating costs of traditional transportation systems. But they leave one mass-transportation problem unsolved: Who collects the fares? The Department of Transportation is still working out a method, but is leaning toward a magnetically coded pass card that, inserted in a slot, will allow a passenger through a turnstile at the same time that his name is forwarded to a computer for later billing...
Denizens of new office buildings have not only grown accustomed to the loneliness of the operatorless elevator, they have also developed a conditioned reflex. They instinctively slap any metal object-typewriter, watercooler, doorknob-with the flat of the hand before using. Otherwise, little blue sparks fly from fingertips and a nasty, if harmless, jolt runs up the arm. In fact, even the most cautious palm-slapper sometimes yields a small tingle...
Talking Elevator. At Manhattan's 99 Park Avenue, a 26-story office building, Westinghouse installed its first "phantom voice" for operatorless elevators, which calls out messages recorded on magnetic tape. The "voice" can announce, among other things, "This car up," "Going Down" and the floor number. It also doubles as a warning device. If a passenger forgets to press his floor button as soon as he steps into the elevator, the voice reminds him: "Press your floor button, please." The passenger who holds open the doors gets a quick command: "Release the doors, please." Cost of the voice...
...elevator trend to robot machines is growing. Otis Elevator Co. is building 30 operatorless elevators for Prudential's 41-story Chicago offices, and robot elevators now account for 75% of Otis' sales, v. only...
Westinghouse's engineers, given free rein, also brought forth an operatorless elevator,* which promises to revolutionize city office-building transportation. Each car not only operates itself electrically (it will not stop at a floor where no one has rung), but coordinates its operation with every other car in the system, so that no two stop at the same floor...
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