"No matter how quickly elevators go up, they all come down at about the same speed -- no more than about 10 meters per second -- because the inner ear doesn't adjust to descent as well as ascent."
As a (very) older person, I was fascinated by another reason for the slower speed of descent: "Older people can wet their pants if they come down too fast."
Source: The February 19, 2018, print edition of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. (P.S. Because of all the new tall buildings in Asia, the elevator business is booming. Its revenues in 2016 exceeded $96 billion.)
As a (very) older person, I was fascinated by another reason for the slower speed of descent: "Older people can wet their pants if they come down too fast."
Source: The February 19, 2018, print edition of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. (P.S. Because of all the new tall buildings in Asia, the elevator business is booming. Its revenues in 2016 exceeded $96 billion.)