Why are there 2 buttons on outside of a lift?

Dist said:
There are some people who have said that the close door button can be used on some elevator as part of an 'override' way of skipping past floors that would normally be stopped at, such as for police/security to go directly to where they want. No idea if there is any truth to that though or what sort of button press combination would be required.
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Yep, I've heard this. Apparently you hold down the close door button and then hold down your floor number until the lift starts moving and then release. Apparently it's only programmed in on some lifts. I've tried it a few times, but lack the evidence to back up the claim 100%.
 
Curio said:
Interesting factoid: On 90% of lifts the "close door" button doesn't actually do anything. It was eliminated decades ago, but they leave the button there because people like to feel they have the power to control the doors. That's why when you punch it (to speed things up) it never does anything for a few seconds anyway......it would have closed by itself after the same length of time :)

I heard this on the radio the other morning. This in the US....may not be the same over there.
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Guarantee you I've not found this to be the case in Hong Kong :p Half the lifts I've been in have that button worn to being almost indecipherable, and it's always slammed the doors shut as soon as it's touched. Then again, considering how much time people here seem to spend either waiting for or standing in lifts, I'm not really surprised!
 
I was once stood with a woman who wanted to go up, but pressed the down button, as she said that "You have to press down to make the lift come down to you". She wouldn't accept it when I tried to explain otherwise!
 
The lifts at our work are pretty good and use the two buttons correctly. Guess they have to be pretty clever when it's the global HQ and has soo many there.
 
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