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by tgsovlerkhgsel12 hours ago |

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by chrismorgan9 hours ago|

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I have long presumed that sort of thing to be deliberate, avoiding activation on accidental bump.

by inigyou9 hours ago|

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Then it should light up when the request is acknowledged, and stay lit up until the elevator arrives.

But wait, there's more: when the elevator arrives until it leaves, the button should flash or change to a more prominent color. Why? Because imagine someone presses up and someone else presses down, and the elevator arrives going up. If the up button switches off at this point, now only the down button is lit which clearly signals the elevator is going down, which is wrong.

by chrismorgan9 hours ago|

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Perhaps we’re not talking about the same thing. What I refer to has the button light up while you bump it, and then go dark again, whereas if you press it more deliberately, it stays lit (and takes effect). This can apply to the buttons inside or outside the lift.

by lebuin7 hours ago|

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It does sounds somewhat reasonable on paper. But some of the crosswalk buttons in Belgium have this as well, and it's really jarring. You press the button, see the light go on and look away to look at the traffic light and wait for it to turn green. Except 20 seconds later you look back and the indicator light is off again. I feel very strongly that the indicator light should only turn on when your press has been registered.

Let's say you tell someone to do something, and they say "ok". But when you ask them later whether they did, they say "oh no, I just said ok to indicate that I heard you, not that I was going to do something about it." That doesn't make any sense. The indicator light has the same function. Going on and then off again is a violation of basic communication protocol.

by ButlerianJihad6 hours ago|

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At intersections, I usually find myself not looking at my red “DON'T WALK” signal, but I’m watching the other traffic signals which are green, and watching for them to turn yellow then red, which means that the next step in the pattern is a green signal for me.

The more complex the intersection, the more controls I can watch, to get a feel for the rhythm, patterns, and triggers that influence the cue to activate my “WALK” signal.

I’m also watching the cars to see when the flows slow down or stop. I should perhaps pay more attention to the signal that pertains to me as a pedestrian or motorist...

by stavros7 hours ago|

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But then you might tap the button and think it's broken, because it does nothing. The light means "this button works", not "your desired action has registered".

I guess you might want to fade it from red to green (red being "this works" and green being "it'll do what I want"), but I don't mind the holding-down behaviour. The only problem is that you can never know how long you need to hold it down for unless you stop holding it.