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Nov 15, 2005
open letter To: Anyone who regularly rides an elevator in a building with more than 10 floors. Apparently many of you don't know how and elevator works. Some of you do, but not all. So, I have a couple of pointers for you. When you push the button to call the elevator, and the button lights up, that means that it worked. The elevator will come and get you. However, typically, in a large building like this, several others have called it as well. We will use a sample scenario to show how it works: Say you are on the ground floor and want to go up. So, you hit the button to go up. It lights up. When that happens, the elevator is called. If there is only one elevator, then it calls that one. If there are multiple elevators, then it calls the one that will get there the quickest (at least in the estimation of the machine. It does guess wrong on occasion.) Now, here is the key part: When it picks the elevator, the elevator has to finish it's current trip. For example, let's say when you call it it is on floor 23 and is going down. The person on there has hit 15, and someone on 12 has called a down elevator. After you call it, it will stop on 15, drop that person off, stop on 12, pick that person up, and lets say that person hits 2, then it will take that person to 2, and then it will come to the ground and pick you up. My point in explaining all of this is: Continuing to hit the call button will not make it go faster. At all. Once it lights up, it disregards all other calls. And, it's going to make all of it's stops. It is not programmed to take into account your percieved sense of urgency. So, hitting it more than once is superfulous. Also, if you come to the elevator and it is already lit, then you do not need to hit it as well. It will not come quicker if there are two people waiting. If it is already lit up, then the other person correctly called it, so everything is okay. Also, it is not any faster to hit both the up and the down buttons. Yes, the door may open quicker, you may get on the elevator quicker, but you will not get to your floor quicker. For example, lets say you are on 15 and want to go to 19. You hit both buttons, even though you want to go up. It stops on 15, and is going down. You get on and hit 19. The person on there has hit ground. It will still go to the ground first. So, it goes to ground. Someone gets on and hits three. It will stop at three. Then, say it stops on 7 because someone calls it. They hit 9, so it stops at 9. Then, and here is the kicker. It stops on 15 again, because YOU called it. Then it will go to 19. Here's the thing: It would have happened the exact same way if you had only called it up, EXCEPT it would not have taken the time to stop the first time. So, hitting both actually makes it take LONGER!!!!! So, this is how an elevator works. posted
by Unknown @ 12:30:00 AM |
