Our building has a different scheme where you summon the elevator by telling it which floor you want to go, and there are no controls inside the elevator to set the destination. This supposedly enables better scheduling of elevators.
Undo codes for Japanese elevator floor buttons
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#32Our building has a different scheme where you summon the elevator by telling it which floor you want to go, and there are no controls inside the elevator to set the destination. This supposedly enables better scheduling of elevators.
I've worked in a couple of modern buildings in Australia that also feature this. While it's great for people that work in the building, you'd often see visitors get in the left, turn to look at the buttons and stop with their arm in mid air. By this point the doors have closed and they're whisked off on their mystical journey.
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#33And on the opposite-of-polite side, supposedly there's cheat codes for bypassing floors where someone is waiting for the elevator.
On some elevators you can hold the door shut button when the elevator stops at a floor to let someone on.
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#34Other 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…
One reason door close buttons don’t work is because many places have a minimum time the doors have to remain open under ADA guidelines.
Once that time has passed, the door close. So there is no window in which the button would be useful.
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#35I 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.
I've seen elevators that ignore short presses of buttons. You press the button, it lights up, you release, the light goes off and the elevator pretends it was never pressed. Any idea why this is being done?
If you're turning in a crammed elevator you could be momentarily pressing multiple buttons with your backpack. That would most definitely be annoying for everyone.
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#36Our building has a different scheme where you summon the elevator by telling it which floor you want to go, and there are no controls inside the elevator to set the destination. This supposedly enables better scheduling of elevators.
We have these in newer buildings here too, but definitely confusing if you're only used to the classic elevator system.
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#37I 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've seen these in old Boston and Brookline buildings.
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#38Other 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…
The elevator of my building does seem to respond to close but it’s not super instant. It’s common for the people left in the elevator to press the close button which theoretically should work.
My office close button works. But then you’re standing in a closed elevator going nowhere. Hitting the floor button also closes the door. This is for a stopped/open elevator.
Once it’s moving with several floors selected, the open and close buttons don’t seem to do anything.
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#39Why not a simple toggle? Just press the button again once to cancel. Seems way more useful then secret codes.
Re: Undo codes for Japanese elevator floor buttons
#40Other 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…
In the USA 99% of people press the "close door" button immediately upon entering, without looking whether someone else is currently headed to the same elevator. It makes sense to disable a button that people can't use politely.