Tuesday, October 27, 2009

How to make people take the stairs

A group of Volkswagen engineers was tasked with figuring out how to encourage people to take the stairs instead of the escalator. Here's what they came up with:

4 comments:

jeffrey said...

My suggestion would have been to have the stairs move. That way people could ride instead of walk up. A sort of... escalating treadmill type of device sort of like the one on the right in the video.

Clay said...

You're no fun.

judyb said...

what do you want from a grumpy old young man? I think the idea is fantastic! visited the website and became enthused. Hope word gets around.

dr. wu said...

That's too cool.