Building Elevator Design
Discussions focus on elevator functionality, configurations, and issues in multi-story buildings, including comparisons to stairs and escalators, safety, and modern features like AI control.
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Shouldn't there be an elevator?
Either your building has old/cheap/shitty elevators or they are misconfigured. This is already standard feature in our elevators.
A real elevator would have stopped at each level.
at least there are plenty of elevators
You take the stairs up, but the elevator down.
My building has it too. It is sometimes confusing, such as when you're in a pre-coffee daze and step into an elevator without punching in your floor. Because there are no floor buttons inside, you end up riding to wherever you can get off and use the elevator correctly. That said, it works as it's designed to. It's a rare event to share a car with people going to other floors.
Please don't build an elevator whose ai is instructed to get people to their floor "_as fast_ as possible"
you can have single-stair with elevators.
i say leave the escalators. why is that only a mall or airport feature?
The elevators in my building only make one announcement per stop.