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Sounds like pedestrian push-buttons on crossings - satisfies people but it doesnt actually do anything.
by blitzar 28d ago
Sounds like pedestrian push-buttons on crossings - satisfies people but it doesnt actually do anything.
- watwut 28d agoIt wont turn green unless you push it here. If you dont push it, you will stand there like an idiot until someone else comes and pushes it.
- Daviey 27d agohttps://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20150415-the-buttons-that-do-nothing https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20150415-the-buttons-th... There's also placebo buttons in many offices for aircon/heating.
- watwut 27d agoI KNOW our work, because when I dont notice them, I stand there like an idiot until someome goes around and press. Maybe there are the ones that dont work, somewhere, but there are also the one ones that do.
- duncangh 26d agoAlternatively you can play a round of hyper realistic frogger at any time
- blitzar 26d agoI am on a pretty strong winning streak.
- tialaramex 28d agoThis is, at best, misleading. It is common that a junction running at capacity with a pedestrian phase will always run that phase with the same timing regardless of buttons, but that same junction (never mind other junctions) may often not be running at capacity, whereupon that pedestrian phase is inserted when demanded. Also of course outside of a junction the control system has no reason to stop the vehicular traffic if nobody demands to cross. So even in the middle of the day the only reason somebody who refuses to press the button can ever cross is that other people will press the button.