So one person rides up on a day with no crowds. Nobody is at the top. They fall on the ramp, causing the chair to stop. They can't get their skis off because of an awkward angle or lack of flexibility and they can't get up. Now everyone has to wait for either patrol to get down or a snowmobile to go up to help them out.
@@whosagoodgirl5846 As a liftee, stuff similar to that happens a lot, especially with inexperienced skiiers. Plus liftees, at least at Vail, often help ski patrol load and unload toboggans with injures guests, maintain ramps during the day, talk with guests, and plenty of other things that are difficult for AI to do
Half the point of having a lifty at the top is so they can help folk! All well and good being able to remotely stop a chairlift but if someone is hurt/stuck/needs directions or anything else this won't help at all. Doesn't work in low visibility conditions or if the cameras ice or fog up your whole lift is fucked. A solution looking for a problem
Let's hope the AI will also provide enough snow in future...
Vail is frothing at the mouth over this one
How do you slow the lift down at the top for adaptive sit skiers?
How do you help a sit skier who needs assistance at the top?
Not universal design.
What happens when you have a new skier who does not know how to get up or pop off their skis?
wouldnt it be 5000% easier to pay chairlift operators what they deserve? instead of leaving 35% of them without work?
So one person rides up on a day with no crowds. Nobody is at the top. They fall on the ramp, causing the chair to stop. They can't get their skis off because of an awkward angle or lack of flexibility and they can't get up. Now everyone has to wait for either patrol to get down or a snowmobile to go up to help them out.
That literally would never happened.
@@whosagoodgirl5846 As a liftee, stuff similar to that happens a lot, especially with inexperienced skiiers. Plus liftees, at least at Vail, often help ski patrol load and unload toboggans with injures guests, maintain ramps during the day, talk with guests, and plenty of other things that are difficult for AI to do
Half the point of having a lifty at the top is so they can help folk! All well and good being able to remotely stop a chairlift but if someone is hurt/stuck/needs directions or anything else this won't help at all.
Doesn't work in low visibility conditions or if the cameras ice or fog up your whole lift is fucked.
A solution looking for a problem