The company behind 1 WTC's super-fast elevators tells us about the Star Trek elevators that will be coming as soon as next year.
On May 29, the One World Trade Center Observatory in New York will open up to the public. To get passengers to the 94th floor as quickly as possible, 71 elevators designed by the German conglomerate ThyssenKrup will ascend 1 WTC at a rate of 2,000 feet per minute, or more than three floors per second. That will make 1 WTC's elevators the fastest in the Western hemisphere.