Like as soon as you take your first step, it feels like youre about to miss your step or trip on the stairs? Its a weird feeling. Ive noticed it every single time i used a broken escalators. Is it just me?
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I think it’s partly because the stair height isn’t equal, they get deeper at the beginning (going down) and a well-built staircase is consistent. Also the grooves make me a bit disoriented, especially going down, and you can’t see the edge. And the steps are huge, so you kind of fall forward and down, instead of just stepping.
A couple of things are at play here. First, since they’re not solid stairs, they have just a tiny bit of give to them. The whole thing moves down a bit when you put your weight on it, and bounces up when you put less pressure on it. It gives it a bit of a bouncy feeling. Perhaps more important is just the fact that you subconsciously expect it to move, and it doesn’t. We don’t do well with things not behaving as we expect.
Such a weird phenomena. I think it’s psychological but wonder if the stair dimensions are far off from normal stairs.
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