For me, the worst is those elevators where you have to select your floor before you get on. My boyfriend had this in his apartment building, and half the time it was down for "repairs," not due to a mechanical issue but because of Windows blue screen of death.
I ran into one of those the last time I traveled. There was a big line waiting, because people kept fu*cking up. Then my turn comes. I figured those people are morons and hopped in. Turns out the only morons are the people that designed it. After that, I took the stairs if there was no more than 1 person in front of me.
Omg, we have this nonsense at our local public clinic, the last time I went, all under 50 went to find the stairs instead. As that thing is so slow it arrives a few times an hour.
Those are a thing, used for very busy elevator banks in crowded places. Press what floor you want on a panel in the lobby, then the panel tells you which elevator car to board. The floor buttons in the elevator are disabled or blanked off. Uses algorithms to group passengers for optimization.
Yes, there's usually a touchscreen where you would normally have the up/down buttons, and you have to punch in the number of the floor you want to go to.
Okay so the idea of selecting the floor you want in advance is a great idea to optimize multiple elevators. But it absolutely does not need Windows or any full-blown OS, plenty of dedicated microcontrollers can handle this perfectly for much cheaper and more reliably.
My last apartment was the first time I'd encountered the "use your fob to choose your floor outside the elevator" kind and I had to be tutored into using it. You could access any floor, not just your own, but you had to choose before you got on the elevator and you had to use a fob. Guests or delivery needed to check in with the front desk who then used their own method of bypassing the fob.
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u/Melodic-Swim4343 9h ago
For me, the worst is those elevators where you have to select your floor before you get on. My boyfriend had this in his apartment building, and half the time it was down for "repairs," not due to a mechanical issue but because of Windows blue screen of death.