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Bottom line: "Door close" is not universally useful to all people. On some elevators, it's programmed to actually close the doors for a regular passenger. On
by reaperducer 4y ago
Bottom line: "Door close" is not universally useful to all people.
On some elevators, it's programmed to actually close the doors for a regular passenger.
On some elevators, it's programmed to only respond to firefighters, janitors, or other people who have the ability to put the elevator into a local control mode.
It varies from building to building. Everything else is a placebo.
- mikestew 4y agoThe "bottom line" is that such poorly-researched, context-free articles are written to get you to click (see the NYT example), and then something contextual to NYC (crosswalk buttons) get generalized to the whole nation. And then, true or not, people think elevator close buttons don't do anything.
- mankyd 4y agoThat's not at all what this well-researched article finds.
- martopix 4y agoThe article clearly states that the "placebo" theory is baseless, so I'm not sure what your "bottom line" that closes with "everything else is a placebo" comes from. What is "everything else" exactly?