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It simply listed the next stops it was making. If it was stopping at floors 4 and 7, when the doors opened at the 4th floor, the electronic sign above the eleva
by mynameishere 19y ago
It simply listed the next stops it was making. If it was stopping at floors 4 and 7, when the doors opened at the 4th floor, the electronic sign above the elevator doors would be displaying 7 - and people going to the 7th floor would see it and get off.
Evidentally, the "dumb people" are the engineers, and the "smart elevators" are the ones invented 100+ years ago.
- robg 19y agoI think that's the sweet spot. Engineers have to be smarter by being dumber because changing user behavior and expectations is really hard. Indeed, the hardest part is getting people to enter in their floor number before getting in.
- axod 19y agoBut surely these elevators, from the users point of view, are inferior. What if they change their mind about which floor they want once they've got in? What if they see a closing lift and jump in, not realising it's not a general purpose lift, but one that only stops in certain predefined places. They'll have to get out at the next stop and start again. You have to ask yourself why these lifts are a good idea for the user. If they reduce wait times by 10% I doubt the users of them will care. The convenience of being able to get a lift to stop where you want it to from the inside is more useful IMHO I really can't see them becoming common place.
- rms 19y agoThe advantage is in very large buildings with large banks of elevators.
- Xichekolas 19y agoThe advantage they pointed out in the article was energy savings and time in the elevator. Very large buildings have express elevators that won't stop on every floor, or the poor sap on floor 52 would never get there. This is like making every elevator an express one by batching up the stops. As for the energy savings... not really clear on that. Maybe I just misunderstood.