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Comment by arccy

2 days ago

I've found that it's only american elevator door close buttons that don't work.

The rest of the world manages to keep them operational.

On US elevators there is a minimum open duration to accommodate the handicapped or disabled. The door close button can’t force the door closed any faster.

Then most set the auto-close duration equal to this minimum open duration and you get this appearance of buttons doing nothing.

As a obsessive door close button presser, I can definitely tell you that there are many elevators in Europe where the button doesnt work either