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Lift Floor Cancel
When you click the same floor button once again, this cancels the floor to be visited. | |
It is not that uncommon to mistakenly choose the wrong destination floor in a lift, or to change one's mind which floor one wants to visit. I have not seen lifts that support undoing this action.
The feature would be implemented by updating the logic circuit or via a software update, to enable the
same buttons to undo/redo the destinations' selections when clicked repeatedly.
While seemingly insignificant change, if you count all the lifts (elevators) in the world that potentially support this upgrade (no extra hardware required), that might be not insignificant amount of cumulative time saved, with relatively small upgrades (compared to the cost of lift installation).
Baked! (22.5 years ago)
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[hippo, May 31 2023]
List of elevator/lift companies:
https://www.thestar...-problem-worse.html
[Sgt Teacup, Jun 04 2023]
[link]
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Only a true genius would come up with an idea this clever |
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Oh my! It's half-baked by the very annotator!~ [hippo], wow. |
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This makes me worried about the rate at which genius ideas spread. |
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In my youth, some time ago, I remember being in a huge multi-storey hotel with lifts somewhere in the US (so elevators then obviously). The lift buttons were new-fangled touch sensitive ones where you simply had to lightly air-penetrate the outside circular, plastic thing to get the floor indicator to light up. Imagine the delight of a young fellow as, alone in the lift, he waved his hands over some 30 buttons to get them to light up. Imagine the crestfallen horror as some American business people entered on floor 2. In an instant, I realised I didn't want to risk spending the next 28 floors explaining what had happened. Floor 3 was my stop and off I got. |
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I still wonder what they thought. |
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So yes - cancel would have been a good thing. |
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Where's that list of lift manufacturers, so we can forward this brilliant idea to all of them, and get done with it? |
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