Posted: 7/19/2012 8:51:52 AM EDT
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A building has a fleet (?) of elevators and you get into one and press a floor that button lights up.
Why doesn't (or why shouldn't) the floor buttons, for all floors that car is dispatched to stop at, also light up? For the floor buttons passengers in the car press, those all light up. Obviously the control system "knows" which car will stop to service requests from persons calling it, so why wouldn't the control system also show those floors? |
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The elevator does not want to give you the information about where it will stop (independent of those on board) because it feels that people will spend too much time analyzing that information prior to allowing its doors to close, thereby impeding its objective of timely transportation. Basically, it's a need-to-know thing.
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The elevator does not want to give you the information about where it will stop (independent of those on board) because it feels that people will spend too much time analyzing that information prior to allowing its doors to close, thereby impeding its objective of timely transportation. Basically, it's a need-to-know thing. Interesting, I never thought about that. I guess some people would look at a lit-up board and decide to leave and catch the next one? |
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The elevator does not want to give you the information about where it will stop (independent of those on board) because it feels that people will spend too much time analyzing that information prior to allowing its doors to close, thereby impeding its objective of timely transportation. Basically, it's a need-to-know thing. Makes sense. |
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When in get in one that's full I keep my back to the door and look at all the peeps. Makes em all squirmy.  When the door closes you can say (1) "I suppose you're all wondering why I've asked you here today." (2) "Have you heard the good word . . . " or start singing "Love in a elevator. Love it up while we both go down." 
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Quoted: Quoted: The elevator does not want to give you the information about where it will stop (independent of those on board) because it feels that people will spend too much time analyzing that information prior to allowing its doors to close, thereby impeding its objective of timely transportation. Basically, it's a need-to-know thing. Makes sense. And to think I've never thought about this deep question until just now... |
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The elevator does not want to give you the information about where it will stop (independent of those on board) because it feels that people will spend too much time analyzing that information prior to allowing its doors to close, thereby impeding its objective of timely transportation. Basically, it's a need-to-know thing. Makes sense. And to think I've never thought about this deep question until just now... I can easily imagine dipshits, as you've explained it, craning their necks around the door and looking at the buttons before they get on. |
| Maybe the floors where an elevator will stop are not yet determined at the time you get on. If you're going from G to 20, you *might* be picking up that guy waiting to go from 6 to 10, but if you get hung up on 3, another car might get him instead. Makes no sense to show you a stop at 6 if it's not set in stone yet. |
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A building has a fleet (?) of elevators and you get into one and press a floor that button lights up. Why doesn't (or why shouldn't) the floor buttons, for all floors that car is dispatched to stop at, also light up? For the floor buttons passengers in the car press, those all light up. Obviously the control system "knows" which car will stop to service requests from persons calling it, so why wouldn't the control system also show those floors? Don't peeve in the elevators. No wonder they stink. |
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The elevator does not want to give you the information about where it will stop (independent of those on board) because it feels that people will spend too much time analyzing that information prior to allowing its doors to close, thereby impeding its objective of timely transportation. Basically, it's a need-to-know thing. Makes sense. And to think I've never thought about this deep question until just now... I never even knew it was a deep question until now. |
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Let me get this straight, you are only supposed to push the button corresponding to the floor you wish to get off?
Not push every button to test the light and allow people on each floor the opportunity to get in? You big city people have a method for everything. |
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Let me get this straight, you are only supposed to push the button corresponding to the floor you wish to get off? Not push every button to test the light and allow people on each floor the opportunity to get in? You big city people have a method for everything. you push the other buttons just before you get out, not when you get in
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Quoted: A building has a fleet (?) of elevators and you get into one and press a floor that button lights up. Why doesn't (or why shouldn't) the floor buttons, for all floors that car is dispatched to stop at, also light up? For the floor buttons passengers in the car press, those all light up. Obviously the control system "knows" which car will stop to service requests from persons calling it, so why wouldn't the control system also show those floors? Some elevators do this. Where are you, at a construction site? We have a 50 yr old elevator that does exactly this. Many of the elevators I was on in Vegas did this. |
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When in get in one that's full I keep my back to the door and look at all the peeps. Makes em all squirmy. When the door closes you can say (1) "I suppose you're all wondering why I've asked you here today." (2) "Have you heard the good word . . . " or start singing "Love in a elevator. Love it up while we both go down." I like that one.
I just wish they would give an audible sound to what floor it's on. I always get off on the wrong floor. 
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Let me get this straight, you are only supposed to push the button corresponding to the floor you wish to get off? Not push every button to test the light and allow people on each floor the opportunity to get in? You big city people have a method for everything. you push the other buttons just before you get out, not when you get in The hell??? My productivity just went up. |
| Modern elevators of the selective-collective operation type have car calls and hall calls. If you get on at the 1st floor and press 12, the elevator will stop and answer all the up hall calls, while ignoring the down calls. The opposite is true going down. The elevator can be in motion as someone in the hall pushes a call button and the elevator will stop and answer the call if possible. In a group of elevators dispatching software is used to send elevators to answer calls. Most software will learn the traffic patterns and park the elevators on different floors to answer calls quicker. We recently modernized two 7 stop elevators in a hospital. These elevators answer hall calls in 15 seconds or less 95% of the time. They run the same speed as the elevators we tore out, but due to modern dispatching software they seem much faster. I've never seen an elevator that will light a car call to match a hall call. Push the button and enjoy the ride on America's safest form of transportation. Mike |