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The article misses important points about the reason for the outcry on the proposed law. Many people here are fed up with the overregulating nanny state with more and more unnecessary rules imposed by inept control freaks like Andrea Nahles. She also seems to have difficulties with judging the impact of her ideas. There are now way too many similar the her in today's politics (throughout most of the political parties in Germany).

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How do people in wheel chairs and crutches reach different floors? If there is a handicapped or moving elevator as well, and if there is an auto-stop mechanism if someone's foot is stuck between lift and ceiling, then I see no reason why these shouldn't be in every office building or condo. They are clearly way more time efficient.

I don't think they're clearly more efficient. For a tall enough building, or low enough traffic, what you save in waiting time, you'd lose in the slower travelling speed.

Well, if I had access to Windows I could quickly tell you the bounds of where it is more efficient by using this: http://www.ezstrobe.com/ and assuming different types of arrivals (stochastic, etc). But I don't have Windows and I just learned one of my favorite professors died (it's listed on the website) so now I'm sad.

Maybe later I'll port to linux.

It's easy to fall some distance when the next lift is below your level.

> rules imposed by inept control freaks like Andrea Nahles

Thank god we have the CSU to counter balance these socialist control freaks and their utterly ridiculous ideas, right?

There is not much a difference to me whether she want to have mandatory classes on Paternoster use, the Greens want to impose a veggie day a week or the CSU wants to have a data retention law to allow to sniff in our digital life. I do not want any of this. For the parties missing in this list above I am sure I can find for almost all of them a fitting example to add them. To me this seems to be a more general issue.

Haha, you mean the CSU which advertises data retention whenever a car tire pops? If I can think of one control freak party, its the one that wants tighter control over refugees. Not that anything hurts the clean image of the typical bavarian town.

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