On Tuesday, 5 March 2019 14:02:04 UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
whisky-dave wrote:
outside the lift ...

I've never quite understood those

Good grief. The idea is you only stop the lift if it is going in your
direction.

Not even that is true.

When a button is pressed outside the elevator, the controller identifies the most appropriate elevator to stop at that floor. This may be based on distance to the floor or the direction of travel

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2...op-at-a-floor/






No wonder they won't let you design anything.

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