Elevator buttons ... open door button will usually make sure they stay that way. If the doors have started to close, jabbing the button often adorned with an icon of opposing arrows should stop ...

but what about the close doors and open door buttons? I asked people getting in elevators and this one guy told me, " I don't think it does much, personally, I like to think it does, but I don't ...

Every single one of us has pushed the 'close door' button ... that none of those buttons work anymore and are all deactivated. If they're not, they're programmed to stay open for at least three ...

Or bashed the “close door” button in an elevator, while suspecting that it may, in fact, have no effect whatsoever? You’re not alone, and you may be right. The world is full of buttons that ...

confirmed to The New York Times in a recent article that functional close-door buttons have been phased out since the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act in 1990 (Door open buttons ...

Chris Towski explains why firefighters must be aware of a potential serious safety condition that exists in certain elevators. The ASME A17.1 Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators has ...

One of those specifications stipulates that elevator doors remain open for a minimum of three seconds or more, depending on how close the hallway’s call buttons are located to the elevator shafts.

Or bashed the “close door” button in an elevator, while suspecting that it may, in fact, have no effect whatsoever? You’re not alone, and you may be right. The world is full of buttons that ...