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Am I crazy thinking it'd be a good idea to have an elevator which analyses its own usage patterns and adjusts its behaviour accordingly?
by jandy 15y ago
Am I crazy thinking it'd be a good idea to have an elevator which analyses its own usage patterns and adjusts its behaviour accordingly?
- eternalban 15y agohttp://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/smart-elevators-dumb-people/ http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/smart-elevato...
- obtu 15y agoThe only optimisation this one has (that the article tells us about) is that passengers choose their floor, but not the elevator to get there.
- obtu 15y agoNot at all. Here's a similar idea, a thermostat with two inputs: too hot and too cold, plus some machine learning tuned for circadian rhythms: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3153227 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3153227
- JonnieCache 15y agoNo, because as soon as we found out about this we'd all be going around trying to train strange behaviour into elevators. Then they'd all end up sulking in the basement...