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:

  1. 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.

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  2. 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.

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