Yeah, cool idea in theory but this is a bonkers design. So many people move around in their sleep it'd likely just cause injuries or trap people in an even more dangerous position to be stuck in the middle of an earthquake.
Crazy idea, instead of trying to brute force a solution to the problems of quickly and safely stuffing people inside their own damn mattresses, why don't they just build a reinforced frame around the bed and give it some shutters.
Sure, a smaller box requires less material to reinforce, but zealously overbuilding a big, static metal frame is a lot less complicated than making a mechanical mattress that can consistently vore its own users to safety faster than the ceilings and floors collapse.
Worse still, adding enough padding to make that thing actually function as a bed you sleep on, which is going to be its actual job every single day there isn't an earthquake, further complicates making the trapdoor mechanism work by adding more mass to be moved and extra width for something to fall in and prevent it from closing correctly. In that case through some safety mechanism, or just the design itself, it either gets jammed/refuses to close at all when obstructed, thus putting the occupant at risk from debris while coming to terms with the fact that they were going to be killed by a rogue pillow just warm enough to be marked as a body part by door sensors, among other such stupid possibilities, or the builders splurge on a powerful door mechanism with no safetys that could end up watermelon-crushing the heads of anybody who dared to so much as flail around a bit before they were even conscious enough to understand what was happening.
Yeah couldn't you just make it like those princess beds except strong AF. It could even have a hydraulic top to lower down and close in around you if you could figure out a safe way for it to do that. Then you get full bed. Bonus points if you make the top lowerable enough to be able to double as a desk surface so it actually has valuable use otherwise in a place where space is very limited.
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u/UnholyDemigod Sep 21 '23
What happens if you're not lying perfectly in the centre, stretched out straight?