Elevators are statistically the safest and most heavily used form of public transportation in the entire world, carrying billions of passengers every single day without incident;…

Elevators are statistically the safest and most heavily used form of public transportation in the entire world, carrying billions of passengers every single day without incident; thanks to automatic braking mechanisms invented by Elisha Otis in eighteen fifty-two, a modern elevator car will simply lock into place if the hoisting cables somehow snap, yet despite these incredibly reassuring facts, our primate brains still completely malfunction the second we step inside a metal box dangling in a shaft; we will gladly hurtle down a highway at eighty miles per hour while texting in a combustible metal cage, but going up four floors in a climate-controlled room with a ninety-nine point nine percent safety record makes us sweat profusely and frantically mentally draft our last will and testament!