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> ...or visually impaired and thus use those announcements to understand what state the lift is in ...but only in lifts in the UK? No, that's not a credible h

> ...or visually impaired and thus use those announcements to understand what state the lift is in ...but only in lifts in the UK? No, that's not a credible hypothesis.

hnlmorg 2y ago
They’re not only in UK lifts and even if they were, that still wouldn’t change the intention of those announcements.
consteval 2y ago
We have those in the US too but we use beeps. Some elevators do use speech so you'll hear "going up" sometimes.