Dumb Rhetorical Question of the Day

[DrPizza]

You mentioned all the other usual buttons... I'm going to guess one of them is "stop"

Now, suppose someone pushes the stop button when it's between floors. How would the elevator know where to go if you decided to restart it by pushing "other floor" button? 😛

It's actually quite simple: same programming/wiring/circuitry as for a 20 floor elevator. Why should they change the way the buttons work for the special case of 2 floors?

 

[gotsmack]

basement

 

[Pepsi90919]

is it incorrect? there you go.

 

[imported_LoKe]

This is hardly a rhetorical question. 😕

 

[vrbaba]

Get Over It,
i cant believe u made a thread. i cant believe im forced to reply in it, even more 😛

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Amused
Maybe because elevator button boards/control panels are standardized and it's just easier and cheaper to make it that way?

Ding ding ding, just what I was going to post. For some reason people think that everything they see in life was engineered from scratch. It's that belief that spawns most of the "why would they EVER do it this way?" threads.

 

[Cattlegod]

it is probably for manufacturing/design costs. why have 2 different elevator designs for a 3+ story building and a 2 story building when you can design and manufacture 1 type of elevator that works for both.

a - design 1 and sell to many
b - design 2 and sell the same number of people

option a makes more business sense to me.

edit: looks like amused hit the point before i did.

 

[SparkyJJO]

because it is taken off a standard elevator design which has buttons for 1, 2, 3, 4, etc floors, but this one just happens to be in a building with just 2 floors. Why change the design (and operation) of the elevator for that one building?

 

[Eeezee]

The same basic code is used for all of these elevators, why the fvck would you make completely new code just for this special case of 2 floors? The elevator with the special "other floor" button would cost more than the standard elevators used today due to the additional cost of having to develop this new code and the design change.

So in the end, your "brilliant" idea turned out to be a really stupid, unnecessary idea.