Joel Spolsky, from joelonsoftware.com (great blog, btw), got to visit the newest high rise in New York, the 7 World Trade Center, and found himself confronted with an interesting new elevator technology.
Instead of having up and down buttons outside the elevators, there’s a
numeric keypad, where you key in the floor number you’re going to. Then
an LED display tells you which elevator to wait for. Once you get in
the elevator, you don’t have to press any buttons (and there are none
to press).
He then speculates about probable reach of this new tech, with passenger-clumping during rush hour, putting all passengers going to a floor or small group of floors together in the same elevator, making the trips a hell of a lot more efficient.
I like it…I hate elevators, specially when I’m going to high floors…stopping on every floor sucks!
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