Elevator Instructions—Softball1321

Posted on September 15, 2024 by Softball1321
  • Remain Inactive until the Indication Button is pressed by a user.
  • The Indication Button is either an Up Arrow or Down Arrow.
  • Arrive to the floor where the user pressed the Indication Button. Wait three seconds and open the doors, allowing the user to enter.
  • If the commuter does not enter after five seconds, close the doors. If called to another floor, arrive to it. If not called to another floor, stay in place with the doors shut.
  • When the commuter enters the elevator, shut the doors securely after 3 seconds.
  • In the elevator, there are a set of buttons indicating the floors of the building. When the commuter presses a number signifying what floor level they want to go to, report to the floor immediately.
  • Once arrived to the floor, wait three seconds, allowing the user to either stay or leave.
  • If the user decides to stay in the elevator, without having any floors selected to attend, shut the doors securely and Remain Inactive. Wait for an Indication Button to be used.
  • When the commuter exits the elevator, shut the doors and Remain Inactive until the Indication Button is activated again.

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1 Response to Elevator Instructions—Softball1321

  1. davidbdale's avatar davidbdale says:
    October 11, 2024 at 8:58 pm
    • Remain Inactive until the Indication Button is pressed by a user.

    —Inactivity is the elevator’s natural state. It never needs to be told to remain inactive, or wait.

    • The Indication Button is either an Up Arrow or Down Arrow.

    —That’s useful for your human reader trying to understand the instructions, but the elevator doesn’t need to know that the Up and Down Arrows belong to any category. It will be happy referring to them as “up or down” arrows.

    • Arrive to the floor where the user pressed the Indication Button. Wait three seconds and open the doors, allowing the user to enter.

    —The elevator is entirely unaware of passengers unless you outfit it with a load-bearing sensor. Repeat: you do not have to tell an elevator to wait for anyone. It could not care less.

    • If the commuter does not enter after five seconds, close the doors. If called to another floor, arrive to it. If not called to another floor, stay in place with the doors shut.

    —Wouldn’t the elevator close the doors after five seconds whether the commuter boarded the car or not? Maybe you mean, “after five seconds of inactivity,” close the doors, or something like that? Most elevators will immediately reopen the doors if an obstruction prevents closing or if a sensor indicates something is in the path of the closing door (such as a person entering or someone waving their hand through the doorway to stop it from closing).

    • When the commuter enters the elevator, shut the doors securely after 3 seconds.

    —Once again, not based on whether a commuter enters or not.

    • In the elevator, there are a set of buttons indicating the floors of the building. When the commuter presses a number signifying what floor level they want to go to, report to the floor immediately.

    —Not so fast. The elevator is always TRENDING either Up or Down, so to speak. If it’s headed Up, it will respond to that Floor Number Button only if the corresponding floor is UP.

    —Furthermore, along the way, it will ignore all Down button pushes, but it will stop and open the doors for what I call Summons Button pushes (those on the outside of the elevator, in the hallway, being just Up or Down buttons).

    —You can probably figure out for yourself what to do with the rest of your instructions.

    I’ll grade this Softball. Put it back into Feedback Please or Grade Please following any significant improvements.

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