I remember a long time ago encountering an elevator (in the US) where the physical buttons were the push on/push off type so you could cancel using another press, and they also popped back out once the desired floor was reached. Anyone else remember that type of control? It's probably from the 40s/50s. I haven't seen one since.
Undo codes for Japanese elevator floor buttons
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#12And on the opposite-of-polite side, supposedly there's cheat codes for bypassing floors where someone is waiting for the elevator.
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#13And on the opposite-of-polite side, supposedly there's cheat codes for bypassing floors where someone is waiting for the elevator.
Does the elevator speaker play “GOD MODE” when you do that?
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#14Elevators are ridiculously configurable. I know there are the famous talks on firefighter mode etc., but is there any in-depth presentation, manual explaining the configuration options, or other documentation for all the ways an elevator can be set up?
For example, I suspect all of these cheat codes can be enabled or disabled based on wishes by the building owner, and aside from parameters like how long the door stays open, the dispatching strategies can be configured too. Seeing the options and the thoughts that go into choosing a configuration would be super interesting.
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#15I remember a long time ago encountering an elevator (in the US) where the physical buttons were the push on/push off type so you could cancel using another press, and they also popped back out once the desired floor was reached. Anyone else remember that type of control? It's probably from the 40s/50s. I haven't seen one since.
I also recall encountering that sort of elevator panel with push on/push off buttons here in Brazil, it was probably in the 80s or 90s (or at most earlier 2000s), but I don't know how old that panel was. I haven't actually used that panel myself, since there was always an elevator operator (ascensorista) on that elevator; and I believe that these elevators have since been upgraded to a modern panel. And yes, I do recall seeing more than once the ascensorista pulling on the buttons to cancel a wrongly set floor.
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#16I feel canceling floors is unsafe and can permit abusive use of the elevator by predators of all sorts.
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#17I feel canceling floors is unsafe and can permit abusive use of the elevator by predators of all sorts.
Just hate it when a bobcat is hogging the elevator.
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#18Other things about Japanese elevators
99% the "close door" button works immediately. Vs say USA where 80% are not even connected and where some are connected but the door doesn't respond for 1-2 seconds?
95% there are no light sensors, only pressure sensors. I'm guessing in the USA those are mandatory that there is a light sensor that if interrupted, causes the doors to open. In Japan those mostly don't exist, there is only a pressure sensor
In Japan it's not uncommon to have someone exit the elevator and just as they exit, press the close button so the door will close immediately behind them. This is a "sorry I interrupted your time by having to stop the elevator" gesture. This wouldn't work in the USA because the light sensors would trigger the doors reopening.
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#19I remember a long time ago encountering an elevator (in the US) where the physical buttons were the push on/push off type so you could cancel using another press, and they also popped back out once the desired floor was reached. Anyone else remember that type of control? It's probably from the 40s/50s. I haven't seen one since.
No. But even in the 1980's the dorm elevator where I went to college had a way to cancel a floor select. I don't remember what the trick was though, but it was not a simple toggle.
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#20I saw this in an elevator in India recently. The third-hand instructions we heard were that you double-click the button to cancel, so all of us computer nerds were trying to double-click it like you would a mouse, when apparently it's click-pause-click.