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Billion Dollar Hotel will Include Smart Elevators
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Posted on 04/06/2013 8:13:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Developers recently unveiled plans for the new Wilshire Grand Hotel and office tower, set to be built in downtown Los Angeles. The new building is set to have a futuristic look inside and out, standing tall at 1,100 feet. The new Wilshire Grand is set to be a “four star plus” hotel and will have many luxurious attractions.

The project is estimated to cost around one billion dollars and is set to open in 2017. One of the towers most interesting features will be its high tech elevator system. The office area will use an elevator system that has no buttons inside the cab. The elevator will know where you are going and know your typical daily schedule. Using an ID card system, the elevator will know exactly where you will be, when you will be there, and where you want to go. If you normally arrive at 8:15 AM, the elevator will be on the first floor waiting for you. What if you want to go another floor? Not an option with this elevator system, because the designers want you to register everything on your card, so the elevators can run more efficiently. The hotel guests can take advantage of the super-fast elevators that will bring them to any floor, even the sky lobby on the 70th floor, in no time at all.


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21 posted on 04/06/2013 8:39:19 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: DManA; BenLurkin

This one is a bit more complete...

22 posted on 04/06/2013 8:41:19 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: BenLurkin

I can see it now: “ Good morning, Dave. I see you intend to go to the 23rd floor. You don’t want to do that, Dave. I’m taking you to the 12th floor instead. And don’t try the stairwells, the electronic locks will not let you through.”


23 posted on 04/06/2013 8:42:56 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Kirkwood
Usually they require human operators on the ground floor telling people how to use the elevator.

Sounds like Obama's navigators for his "affordable" "health" "care"

24 posted on 04/06/2013 8:43:18 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: BenLurkin

I didn’t think pushing a button to indicate which floor you’d like to go to was a chore. Maybe LA is different.


25 posted on 04/06/2013 8:43:53 AM PDT by kidd
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To: cripplecreek

New tagline.


26 posted on 04/06/2013 8:44:40 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: dragnet2

That would be a cool building to be in during a 7.0.


27 posted on 04/06/2013 8:44:46 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: kidd

A lot of people are anxious about spreading disease.


28 posted on 04/06/2013 8:45:39 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it were built and engineered to withstand a 7.0.


29 posted on 04/06/2013 8:46:31 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: BenLurkin

It sounds like a freaking nightmare that will be replaced by buttons, at great expense, within three years.


30 posted on 04/06/2013 8:46:59 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Most all those building there now were built to bend, sway and wave like flags during seismic events. It’s also why they are expensive to construct.


31 posted on 04/06/2013 8:49:07 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Cyber Liberty

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/Uh_Yeah.mp3


32 posted on 04/06/2013 8:49:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: DManA

That was the old design when it was to be two buildings. This is the current rendering, and it'll just be the one hotel tower now.

33 posted on 04/06/2013 8:50:02 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: dragnet2

I’ve always imagined the top floor of these skyscrapers would be known as “the vomit floor” after anything larger than 6.5. The do give a lot and it can’t feel pleasant way up there, like a vertical version of crack-the-whip.


34 posted on 04/06/2013 8:51:48 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets; dragnet2

Maybe, but I wouldn’t bet my life on it by being in it.

As a native So Cal former resident, I’ve rode out my share of earthquakes including the 71 and 94 quakes. I lost my home in the 94 one.


35 posted on 04/06/2013 9:00:19 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: Cyber Liberty

I agree 100% unless there is a special bank of elevators just for card use.

I suspect that is actually what they mean though.


36 posted on 04/06/2013 9:00:59 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: ElkGroveDan
The only difference is that instead of a stern faced bureaucrat telling you it's not allowed, a computer will simply ignore your request.


37 posted on 04/06/2013 9:01:09 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: BenLurkin
Hopefully, this will eliminate the most serious problem with conventional elevators. That smart assed kid who ...


38 posted on 04/06/2013 9:01:35 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: BenLurkin

Elevators have been smart for year, and fuzzy logic traffic flow patterns.

But when I want to get off at a different floor because I got to go to the bathroom, I dont need a silicon chip to decide I dont have to go that bad.


39 posted on 04/06/2013 9:29:53 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: BenLurkin

People will put up with this crap for ONE WEEK and then it will be time to (expensively) retrofit. I do hope they have ENOUGH BRAINS to scar-in the wiring to support doing it the right way.

(by the way, where else but FR could we be linked to Elevator Design News - thank you)


40 posted on 04/06/2013 9:33:48 AM PDT by BobL (Look up "CSCOPE" if you want to see something really scary)
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