Some of you probably won't find this that interesting. Certainly not anyone who has been to the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. But I found the elevator system at the hotel to be kind of fascinating.

You walk up to the elevator banks and push a keypad as your floor destination.



It then tells you which letter elevator to go to:



After an small eternity waiting for the elevator, you walk in and the elevator takes you to your floor. There are no floor buttons.



The no floor buttons is the thing that took me the most to get used to.

What also appears to happen is that the computer system keeps track of the number of people who have requested a particular floor. So after a certain number of buttons presses for, say, the 40th floor, the next request for 40 will send you to a different elevator. Unfortunately, the system is a bit flawed because people keep pushing the pad when the elevator doesn't arrive, and there's no accommodation for people and large pieces of luggage.

But it's an interesting system nonetheless.

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