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Excluding express elevators that skip entire banks of floors in high-rise towers, elevators will now stop at every floor, regardless of whether passengers wish to board or disembark. This system will alleviate the frustration felt by passengers bound to or from higher floors when others bound to or from
lower floors interrupt their ride.
Paternoster Lift
http://www.dartford...in_hall_lifts.shtml
The paternoster lift might soon be... [st3f, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
banned...
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/10709
from the European Union. [st3f, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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How about never stopping, just slowing it down to the point that people jump on and off, like a cable car? |
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hmmm, a good way to encourage taking the stairs. |
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Just push all the buttons. |
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Oops. I only spellchecked the body - fixed now. |
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Isn't this what is commonly known as a paternoster? (only they don't stop)(and don't have doors)(and probably contravene all kinds of modern health and safety standards)(link). |
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Did you vote for yourself because that sounds like a pretty bad idea to me. |
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It's already been done. In areas with a high proportion of Jewish people, residential buildings have eleveators programmed for "Sabbath mode" (automatically stop at all floors) to allow the use of the elevators while conforming to the prohibition on performing useful work on the Sabbath. Elevators with regenerative braking switch to dynamic braking (dump the electricity into a resistor) in Sabbath mode for the same reason. |
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For obvious reasons, it's only done for residential buildings, not office buildings. |
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Well it teaches patience one way or another... I like it :) |
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The problem is that, when you're in a
hurry, pressing the lift button harder or
repeatedly has no effect. It's the bare-
faced impassiveness of the lift that
creates frustration. |
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So, make the lift respond to mutliple
button-pressings, and in proportion to
the force of the pressing. If you really
hammer the button enough times, the
lift will hasten to your floor, ignoring
the less forceful requests of other
would-be lift passengers. |
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