Posts tagged “safety”

Autumn's here, and I can't decide if the cold weather should make me more or less paranoid about people in heavy coats on the tube. The cover it provides cuts both ways.

London Underground's "Inspector Sands" announcement is a coded message to staff that a fire alarm has been triggered, designed to avoid panicking passengers. Large public venues use similar systems, though the exact meaning varies depending on your source.

We're more like panicking mice than we'd like to admit. Wider doors cause jams, narrow ones create orderly queues, and clustered exits block each other. Turns out human evacuation behavior is far less rational than we imagine.