Smart Elevators Coming to Seattle

coaxial writes "Fujitec has unveiled a new elevator system for Seattle's Metropolitan Park West Tower. The new system uses touchpanels to group users by destination. Riders may wait slightly longer for the proper car, but the overall ride is shortened because the car stops less."

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Waiting

[decipher_saint]

"Riders may wait slightly longer for the proper car"

To me, once you're riding time appears to go by quickly, it's the waiting for the damn thing in the first place that's frustrating.

Human nature I suppose.

Re:Real World may hold surprises

[yobjob]

You actually bring up a good point - what's to stop a single user from registering 10 full lifts worth of demand for his own stop by repeatedly entering the destination floor at the kiosk? Maybe if sensors are installed in the doorway, it can estimate how many people leave the elevator at a floor, and compare that to the demand originally registered at the kiosk. The predictive logic software could then learn which floor has the highest number of selfish arseholes, and adjust their service accordingly :)