Always display the number of current floor and direction in which it is moving with an up or down arrow correspondingly and keep the lights on unless unoccupied.
Before moving, make sure weight limit is not exceeded. If it is not exceeded, release brakes and proceed. If there is no weight, it is unoccupied
When “up-button” is pressed on any floor/floors, proceed to and make a stop at said floor/ floors in ascending order, continuing in the upwards direction until the highest “requested floor” is reached, stopping at all floors requested from inside as well. Then you may proceed to respond to “down-button” requests.
When “down button” is pressed on any floor/floors, proceed to and make a stop at said floor/floors in descending order, starting at the highest “requested floor”, continuing in the downwards direction until the lowest floor requested is reached stopping at all floors requested from inside as well. Then you may proceed to respond to “up-button” requests.
If there are no more “requested floors”, “up-buttons”, or “down-buttons” to respond to, remain at present floor until otherwise requested.
When completely stopping at a floor,
-Open doors and play “arrival tone” (ding) and pause music, remaining open for 7 seconds, then closing if there are no obstructions tripping the laser and continue “music”.
-If the laser is tripped while closing the doors, open them back up and close again after 7 seconds of no obstructions.
-Doors may also be closed manually with the “close-door button” if there are no triggers in the laser
-Doors may also be opened manually with the “open-door button” if it is completely stopped at a floor
Light “requested floor buttons” as they are pressed as those represent “requested floors”, each button numbered correspondingly with their floor.
When reaching a “requested floor”, unlight the corresponding “requested floor button” with the relative floor.
If the “Emergency Button” is pressed, immediately connect the speaker system to the call center and pause “music”
Always play “music” when moving between floors
-“Music” is Surfin’ Bird by The Trashmen on repeat
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
This is very spare and blankly sensual poetry of instructions. I love that it more than satisfies the requirements of the assignment if tangentially.
You’ve chosen to instruct the entire elevator operation here, lil.sapph, another deviation from the actual instructions. The elevator itself ought not to be responsible for lighting the lights that share its status with passengers, for example. But you’ve decided to make it so. Yours will be unique in that way, too, I imagine.
You don’t actually distinguish between the two types of commands a downward bound elevator might encounter: external commands to COME TO a floor and internal commands to GO TO a floor. Seems like a big omission.
I can’t wait to see what you do next, lil.sapph!
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Thank you for your feedback! Could you please elaborate on my not distinguishing between the types of commands a downward bound elevator encounters so I can edit and resubmit? Should I have written “both” to make it clearer to stop at both “down button” floors and “requested floors” as “down button”s are pushed from the outside giving a come to this floor and “requested floor buttons” are pressed from the inside telling the elevator to go to that floor.
You tell me, lil.sapph.
Does this indicate that, when traveling upward, the elevator must stop to take on passengers who have placed an “up button” request along the way AND that it will also stop to serve all passengers who, while traveling up, have requested a higher floor?:
And does this indicate that, when traveling down, the elevator will stop to respond to all “down button” requests along the way AND will also stop to serve “requested floor” requests that are on the route?:
Make revisions if both types of responses are not addressed. Put the post back into Feedback Please AND Grade Please when you’ve finished.
I’d understand if you want to rest on what you’ve already accomplished.
You managed to make that better with just a few additional words.
Regraded.