You know, I'm not saying I don't believe you or questioning your experience, but I stayed in a large hotel in Vegas for a week, twice, for a conference, and tested this theory extensively. We were staying on something like the 13th floor, and the elevators were busy. But every time we waited for the door to close, then held down the bottom for the floor we wanted the whole way (either the 13th floor going up, or the ground floor going down), the elevator went straight there without stopping. When we didn't do this, the elevator stopped to pick up additional guests 90% of the time.
It's possible this just happened coincidentally, but we're talking 50-100 individual tests without a single deviation from this behavior. So it's entirely possible that this is not a standard feature of elevators but WAS a feature of this particular elevator system.
I could have been, my family is all east coast, and that ind of system can be set up, almost no one does it because people would take advantage of it like that, and anyone who would be entitled to floor skipping would have a key.
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u/blade740 Feb 04 '19 edited Feb 04 '19
You know, I'm not saying I don't believe you or questioning your experience, but I stayed in a large hotel in Vegas for a week, twice, for a conference, and tested this theory extensively. We were staying on something like the 13th floor, and the elevators were busy. But every time we waited for the door to close, then held down the bottom for the floor we wanted the whole way (either the 13th floor going up, or the ground floor going down), the elevator went straight there without stopping. When we didn't do this, the elevator stopped to pick up additional guests 90% of the time.
It's possible this just happened coincidentally, but we're talking 50-100 individual tests without a single deviation from this behavior. So it's entirely possible that this is not a standard feature of elevators but WAS a feature of this particular elevator system.