On Tuesday, 5 March 2019 10:50:00 UTC, Andy Burns wrote:
whisky-dave wrote:

lifts where you have to tell it what floor before you get in it and
then wait for the lift that goes to that floor

so rather than just up/down buttons,

I've never seen a life with just up and down buttons.


your lift has a button for every
other floor in the lobby on each floor?

Outside the 3 lifts there are 3 panels likem a calculator.
If you push button 3 it'll tell yuo which lift L1 L2 or L3 will be the one to stand by. If you get in the lift it tells you to you get taken to that floor.
If you get in the lift that someone else has selected 4, then you will be taken to floor 4 rather than floor 3.

The general idea is to tell the lift what floor level you want to go to and it tells you which lift to get.
If you ask to go to floor 3, it will take you to floor 3 NOT ANY OTHER FLOOR.



I bet people still get into a
lift going up when they want to go down, instead of waiting for one
going down ...

They are students. I've been in a lift and a student followed me in so I asked which floor and he said I don't know, so I selected my floor 2 (old lift) and got out on that floor. Leaving the student in the lift, he wasn't there the next day so I can only assume he got out at some point either on the ground floor or 1 2,3 or 4 at some point in his life.