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Elevator Buttons

Why aren’t the buttons in elevators toggle-able? You push ‘2′ by accident, wanting 3, and you’re screwed.

WHY?

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This entry was written by JB, posted on January 18, 2006 at 2:09 pm, filed under Grab Bag. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Comments are closed, but you can leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

3 Comments

  1. Neil
    Posted January 18, 2006 at 3:07 pm | Permalink

    I was thinking something similar today. Why aren’t the floors pressure sensitive, so that when a certain weight it met, it doesn’t stop on floors not requested. It took 3 elevators for me to get out of the building yesterday.

  2. JB
    Posted January 18, 2006 at 3:20 pm | Permalink

    You mean in order to thwart people who, being last to exit an elevator, find it funny to mash all of the buttons inside?

  3. JM
    Posted January 19, 2006 at 1:07 pm | Permalink

    Probably for the same reason why you will always find an automobile with the accelerator pedal to the right of the break pedal. It is an established user interface that is so wide spread it would cause chaos if changed. In fact, due to strict standards and the economics built around the modern modular construction of elevators this type of change seems virtually impossible.

    Check this out though…

    http://thedamnblog.com/index.php?y=2005&m=07&d=31