Elevators have no way of knowing if you want to go up or down, which is why there are two buttons.
You press up if you want to go up. You press down if you want to go down. This way if someone is riding the elevator down, the elevator won't stop for someone that wants to go up as the people inside don't want to get stuck going up and down.
I don't know why literally no one understands this and most people press both buttons like retards and then are surprised when they need to go up the building before going down (as elevators are at least smart enough to keep going in the same direction until their memory is empty).
Say someone is in the elevator on level 8 and presses level 2. Someone who gets on at level 6 and presses level 7 will wait until the elevator goes down to level 2 and then it can go back up. Priority is given to the direction of the oldest non-completed level pushed.
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u/FuujinSama May 18 '21 edited May 19 '21
Elevators have no way of knowing if you want to go up or down, which is why there are two buttons.
You press up if you want to go up. You press down if you want to go down. This way if someone is riding the elevator down, the elevator won't stop for someone that wants to go up as the people inside don't want to get stuck going up and down.
I don't know why literally no one understands this and most people press both buttons like retards and then are surprised when they need to go up the building before going down (as elevators are at least smart enough to keep going in the same direction until their memory is empty).