Happy Vertical People Transporters

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device in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fictional elevator type technology in fiction

Happy Vertical People Transporters are the notoriously unreliable and overly cheerful talking elevators from Douglas Adams’ "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy" universe, produced by the fictional Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Happy Vertical People Transporters canonical	2

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	device in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ⓘ fictional elevator type ⓘ technology in fiction ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	talking elevators ⓘ
appearsIn	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series) ⓘ surface form: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (TV adaptation) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ⓘ surface form: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (book series) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) ⓘ surface form: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)
associatedOrganizationInFiction	Sirius Cybernetics Corporation ⓘ
associatedTheme	annoying artificial intelligence ⓘ dystopian consumer technology ⓘ
countryOfAuthor	United Kingdom ⓘ
creator	Douglas Adams ⓘ
designedTo	anticipate passengers’ needs ⓘ
designFlaw	excessive anticipation causes inconvenience ⓘ prioritizes own satisfaction over users’ convenience ⓘ
fictionalUniverse	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ⓘ surface form: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
firstAuthorPublicationContext	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ⓘ surface form: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy franchise
genre	comic science fiction technology ⓘ
hasFeature	artificial intelligence ⓘ personality programming ⓘ speech capability ⓘ
hasMottoOrAttitude	eager to please ⓘ insistently friendly ⓘ
inUniverseReputation	frequent subject of complaints ⓘ widely disliked by users ⓘ
languageOfOperation	Galactic English ⓘ
manufacturerInFiction	Sirius Cybernetics Corporation ⓘ
mediumOfOrigin	radio comedy series ⓘ
narrativeRole	comic relief technology ⓘ satire of user-unfriendly technology ⓘ
notableCharacteristic	anthropomorphized behavior ⓘ notoriously unreliable ⓘ overly cheerful personality ⓘ talkative ⓘ
partOf	Sirius Cybernetics Corporation product line ⓘ
primaryFunction	vertical transportation of people ⓘ
producedByInFiction	Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints Division target ⓘ
relatedConcept	Marvin the Paranoid Android ⓘ Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots ⓘ
satirizes	corporate optimism in product design ⓘ over-engineered user interfaces ⓘ
toneOfSpeech	cheerful ⓘ overly enthusiastic ⓘ
typicalSetting	large buildings in the Hitchhiker’s universe ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sirius Cybernetics Corporation → notableProduct → Happy Vertical People Transporters ⓘ

exists only within The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy universe → notableProduct → Happy Vertical People Transporters ⓘ

subject surface form: Sirius Cybernetics Corporation