So You Think You Can Program an Elevator

Re:So You Think You Can Program an Elevator by caf on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @08:00PM (#10891597)

I'm in a building with a mere nine floors that has such a system (the only buttons in the elevators themselves are door open, door close and alarm). I imagine that the technology will increasingly appear in the smaller buildings as their elevators are built or refurbished.

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Re:So You Think You Can Program an Elevator by rodgerd on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @11:07PM (#10892271)

Whenever I use those sorts of lifts I find it very unsettling - it's interesting, because floor buttons vs external destination buttons give me no more control over the lift, but as a user I become very anxious when my mechanism for "driving" the lift is taken away.

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Re:So You Think You Can Program an Elevator by Raticide on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @08:41PM (#10891760)

What if you need to visit someone on another floor?

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Re:So You Think You Can Program an Elevator by caf on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @09:16PM (#10891924)

There's touchscreens in the lift lobbies where you can select an override floor before scanning your pass.

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