Comment by vova_hn2

> What if the nearest car is full?

I wonder how do elevators find out if the car is full or not.

I once been to an office building where it obviously didn't work properly.

I needed to get down from a pretty high (15+) floor to the bottom during the evening rush.

The elevator got full immediately but still stopped almost on every floor on the way down.

Each time an awkward scene ensued: a huge crowd of people outside elevator just standing and looking at the crowd in the elevator. Everyone has to just wait pointlessly.