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Re:The secret undo codes for elevator floor buttons by neilv on Sunday January 08, 2023 @04:11PM (#34303173)
And on the opposite-of-polite side, supposedly there's cheat codes for bypassing floors where someone is waiting for the elevator.
Re:The secret undo codes for elevator floor buttons by klabb3 on Sunday January 08, 2023 @04:21PM (#34303264)
Does the elevator speaker play “GOD MODE” when you do that?
Re:The secret undo codes for elevator floor buttons by pants3000 on Sunday January 08, 2023 @06:34PM (#34304616)
On some elevators you can hold the door shut button when the elevator stops at a floor to let someone on.
Re:The secret undo codes for elevator floor buttons by kevincox on Monday January 09, 2023 @09:47AM (#34310881)
This could actually be useful and "polite" when you are in a full elevator. Often times there will be a packed elevator going to ground but it needs to stop+open+wait+close on every floor even though nobody can fit in. This just reduces throughput and can make rush periods stretch on for a long time.

I've always wondered if elevators code detect when they were full and avoid stopping for outside requests. Some combination of total weight + weight change could likely be a heuristic that improves performance overall.