Elevator Hacking

[G4M3R]

How To Force an Elevator to Go Straight to Your Floor Without Picking Anyone Else Up:

1) Get in the elevator.

2) Decide which floor you want to go to.

3) Extend both index fingers.

4) Press the button for the floor that you want to go to, and the door close button at the same time, and hold them down for five seconds.

5) Laugh at all of the people that are waiting on an elevator while you go right past them.

Works on all Otis elevators.

I am going to try this out tonight :D

Also read that will bypass floors that other people in the elevator have pushed :devil:

[AionXn_]

Interesting...what is Otis?

[planetik]

I'm 99% sure that this info was a prank made by some clever dude. I've tried it a couple of times myself. A lot of times on Otis elevators.

I think it was on hack-a-day, a week after the "hack" was published, announcing it was a joke.

[Shof]

dont work in most elevator..only in new ones

[P!P]

This is sort of old. I heard about this a couple of years ago. I've tried it in several Otis elevators and all have had it disabled.

[-hurley18]

Nice

[p858snake]

its works on the boarol(spelling??) ones where our units are execpt their not the glass elevators so you cant laugh at the people

[ozgeek]

This is very rude and stupid. You are doing yourself some benefit at the cost of other people's benefit. Just imagine how would you like if YOU were one of those waiting to get on? :no:

[Shof]

my brother got stuck in an elevator becuase of this once

[ProtoPunch]

I'm so gonna try this at every elevator I get on from now on. :D

[illicit]

Heh, I will need to try this out.

[Lexcyn]

  ozgeek said:

This is very rude and stupid. You are doing yourself some benefit at the cost of other people's benefit. Just imagine how would you like if YOU were one of those waiting to get on? :no:

Uhh ... how about just wait for another elevator to come? Usually buildings have more than one ... and even so, what's waiting a few seconds for it to come down again? :|

[Black Hawk]

  Lexcyn said:

Uhh ... how about just wait for another elevator to come? Usually buildings have more than one ... and even so, what's waiting a few seconds for it to come down again? :|

Goes both ways. Why not wait for the people on the other floors? What's waiting a few seconds for it to get to your floor?

[p858snake]

I wouldn't normally use this (ie: when shopping) but at the unit complex thers some stupid people that press the wrong direction button and when your in qa 20 floor building...

[BroChaos Veteran]

pretty crazy if it's true. there are some things you think you'll never hear of, but on neowin, you hear a lot :p

[KC]

It has never worked for me.

[PL_ Veteran]

Cool

[Koolslacker]

This is cool to know. Thanks for the info. I'll have to try this next time I am in an elevator.

[ChArMzZ]

Schindler Lifts in Australia(to be precise:Sydney World Tower Apartments)???Any hacks for that....Its really tiring sometimes to go down from 50+ floor to the Lobby everyday...

[Intersect]

you would have thort that lift Manafactures would implement some kind of detection system where the lift wouldent stop on a floor unless some one is on that floor and has requested it or it has been requested for a stop at sed floor by a person using the lift.

a simple PIR on each floor would help issues like this. after all how much does a PIR cost compared to a 50 floor lift system.

Edited April 29, 2006 by xSuRgEx

[Nathanael]

  xSuRgEx said:

you would have thort that lift Manafactures would implement some kind of detection system where the lift wouldent stop on a floor unless some one is on that floor and has requested it or it has been requested for a stop at sed floor by a person using the lift.

a simple PIR on each floor would help issues like this. after all how much does a PIR cost compared to a 50 floor lift system.

I think such mechanisms already exist. This hack makes the elevator ignore the stop requests.