even in situations with multiple elevators, i have never thought about whether or not the elevator is currently going in the direction i need it to - i just enter the first one that opens up, press my button, and wait until i arrive where i need to be
@stella@natty@jeder@BryanGreyson@Elizafox@ielenia If I may pop in, my autistic brain wants to know I'm entering the "correct" elevator. I'm fully aware that makes no sense but it's not American impatience, it just feels wrong somehow to get on an elevator going up if I want to go down.
@Toni2167@natty@jeder@BryanGreyson@Elizafox@ielenia thinking about this at all feels weird to me because there are plenty of cases where the incoming direction of an elevator has nothing to do with the outgoing direction
if an elevator is coming up to my floor (and indicated as such), but then everyone on it leaves, and i press my button to go down, it will go down
if nobody else is currently in the system and i press the elevator button, all the elevators are probably at the bottom, so one will necessarily have to come up to take me with it
if im at the top floor of the elevator (which i dont always know before getting in), same thing
i feel like any method of ignoring elevators that come in indicating the "wrong" direction of travel has too many false negatives to be useful to me
@stella@natty@jeder@BryanGreyson@Elizafox I'm pretty sure @ielenia is thinking about express elevators, though I could be wrong. I'm seeing her point of view because I used to live in a tall building that set their elevators to express 16 hours a day.
@stella@natty@jeder@BryanGreyson@Elizafox@ielenia single direction travel. They start at the top or bottom and go all the way in order to move the maximum number of people as efficiently as possible. It's an artifact of American disregard for the comfort of the individual. (i.m.o.)
@stella@Toni2167@natty@BryanGreyson@Elizafox@ielenia the only express elevator concept i know of is when elevator does not stop at most floors at all (there is no physical way to enter the elevator) and some buildings in poland have elevators like that yes its annoying and an accessibility hell
@stella@Toni2167@natty@BryanGreyson@Elizafox@ielenia this building is famous for being, well, big it's so big it is considered its own neighbourhood for administrative reasons and its elevators stop only at floors 0, 2, 5, 8, 11 and 14
