Elevators and escalators

Um, what does. Reference pls

the Reference being that it's scarry not having Braille buttons on elevators

That's not scary?

I know it isn't. Maybe scarry is the wrong word. Maybe confused might be a little more better? Without the Braille on there you could accidentelly push the alarm or the phone button. That has happend and most elevator people are verry understanding about that if that were to happen

I got stuck on an older elevator yesterday

bro all elivators in the us at least should have them

You did? So what happend tell us my friend. Tell us about your unfortunet adventure
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I got stuck on an older elevator yesterday

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it was the elevator in my apartment.
it was ann old otis elevator from like 1980 I was going to the lobby and it stopped and I used the phone and I got help inabout 20 minutes

Did it have a chime? Like did it ding 2 times to tell you that it was going down.

no it did not but noone was on it so I knew it was going down

Lol ding 2 times? Since when does an elevator ding 2 times once it goes down. But heh, maybe canada has a weird fantacy of elevators, *lol*

No. Most elevators, especially nowadays, it's a requirement that elevators must have what is called a directional chime. The chime will always sound once when going up and 2 times when going down. If you look up elevator videos on youtube, it will chime the way I said.

but some elevators still have one chime for both up and down

Or no chime at all, which is perfectly fine in my opinion. I know which direction I'm moving, thank you.

ok good

lol what? How is it easy to fall off an escalator? You're literally stationenry on the damned thing. If it stops you just walk off. If an elevator stopps you're trapped in a tiny steel box for god knows how long. Also I don't think I've ever seen an elevator in Trinidad without Braille. I always assumed that all elevators have them. And as for the chime, most of them don't have any chime at all. But some of them do play a ding... Doong... When they arrive, but in most cases there's just a voice saying going up followed by rapid fire Spanish because of course.

Here in South Africa, elevators, or lifts as I know them as, have no braille on them. It's extremely rare, most of them don't talk either.

Isn't it interesting that elevators in different countries have slight differentses

I think it has a lot to do with when the elevators were installed. The Hospital in San Fernando where I live is a sky scraper and it was built somewhere around 2014 2015 so it has speech. Other than that most elevators were installed sometime before that. Although thinking about it, I feel like the newer ones are more likely than not to have no sound at all.

post 79 I think so too