TORONTO -- Even a guy with decades of experience servicing elevators is creeped out by pushing the up and down buttons.
Health authorities are recommending elevator behaviour that once would have seemed, at best, anti-social. In Calgary, riders are advised to face the wall and some office buildings in Toronto have decals on the floor instructing passengers to stand with their feet pointed into the corner.“I don’t think you or I will be getting on an elevator with 10 or 12 people on board for a long time,” said Kelly Leitch, managing director of KONE Canada.
Isabelle says modelling shows it would take three hours for just half of the 10,000 employees at the four-tower Commerce Court in Toronto’s financial district to get to their office in the morning.COVID-19 is accelerating the adoption and creation of elevator technology, says Jon Clarine, head of digital services for ThyssenKrupp Elevator, who is based in Atlanta.
“Long term, no one wants to touch buttons and not just for COVID-19, but for colds and the flu,” said Shaun Harper, a field supervisor with West Coast Elevator. The company has collaborated with NZ Technologies that develops touchless devices for operating rooms. One technology that is found in high-end office towers across the country is a system dubbed destination dispatch in which riders enter their floor on a touchscreen and are directed to a specific elevator with others going to the same floor or those in the same vicinity. No more stopping at every floor.
Advanced destination dispatch systems are tied into turnstiles where employees swipe their cards for entry to office towers. The system automatically summons an elevator and directs the user to which one to take. If a user needs another destination – to attend a meeting or get a coffee – they can override the default floor.But Bluetooth connectivity remains a challenge. A rider would connect in the hallway, but then has to switch to a transmitter within the car, a steel box that isn’t the best environment for stable connections. Depending on the phone, its software and its version of Bluetooth, it can be tricky, says Eleid.
Source: Tech Daily Report (techdailyreport.net)
Until when?
The worst part is that there will be people that will follow this shit. 🤦
This is fucking ridiculous.
But I loved staring at the numbers to avoid eye contact and awkward elevator conversation
And magical stairs that go up without touching too
Ummm why not just put one of these inside of every elevator? Just dispense people like sandwiches in a vending machine. 😛
Lol
Nothing like being told to stand in the corner. Like you are an 8 year old.
It's just going to keep on getting more and more stupid folks, the longer we let the morons in charge keep their 'emergency powers'. Get ready for maximum stupid come September!!
No such thing as 'New Normal', just people being Abnormal
FFS it's not ebola.
Anything they can do to separate and divide the people.
Everyday it just get more and more stupid, can it be made more ridiculous? Oh yes, it can and right now people are being paid to come up with ideas even more stupid than this, and sadly, they actually think this is the right thing to do.
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Social Conditioning for Sheeple
Lol
Are you. Fucking. Kidding me. The level of stupidity is astonishing.
I have yet to see people abiding by the directional arrows in supermarkets so I doubt this will fly
Watch New Twister fun spread....And their new normal disintegrating in real time.
It’s not normal stop your propaganda 👎
You played a part in this new reality. Thanks FakeNews
Seriously? Go away with this. Stop dehumanizing us.
Hell on Earth. Enabled by the MSM.
This is fucking stupid.
Wtf...🤦🏻♂️
Peak absurdity
Everyone remember viruses dont move side to side
I always take the stairs. Healthier, virus or no virus, and never crowded.
Sure, people can't even follow arrows in a grocery store. Good luck with that
Are you fucking kidding me
Is this because masks don’t work in lifts or just to dehumanise?
I’d say one person upside down every other square so the heads are farthest away
I was in an elevator recently where the ‘place your feet here’ signs were on the walls because the floor is carpeted. So wanted to lay down, put my feet on them and take a pic. But I’m not in high school any more.
nEw NoRmAl
Gawd
Sheeple please stand here, all others boykott this business in particular.
Enough of the 'new normal'. What a crock of shit, there is nothing'normal' about anything that is going on. If it doesn't go back to the way things were, normal is not in any sentence.
This isn't normal...
Funny thing is, many people find this totally ok.
New normal Nope I haven’t changed lol
No surprise..the same country that brought you 'glory holes' for sex in the times of corona.
Would anyone ACTUALLY do that!
CTV is another propaganda machine
it's official. our government wants us to hate life so much we'll either kill ourselves or each other. why are people so willing to give up everything for a false sense of safety? we're not surviving this world either way. give me liberty or give me death!
This is not going to work in Scotland.
tomlin_britt your apartment? 🤪
I hope those markings are not permanent!
'New normal'. Get lost, clowns.
Whatever you do don’t make eye contact anymore!
The virus does not travel backwards or sideways. Duh!
This will encourage more jumping in elevators
Take the stairs.
Lmao!!!
Going to take a lot of time for people to get up and down and different buildings.
Wth is a sideways elevator
Lol this is a test to see how much you all will obey. Does anyone remember the first word you learned? 'No!'
Don’t masks work?
The new abnormal.
BULLSHIT!!!
This is absolutely ridiculous people when is enough enough?
On a positive note- it's been months since someone's bashed in to me as they walked by.
Better off to take the stairs I think!
Liberalism is the downfall of society
This wont work at rush hour
Until there's a vaccine, I'll take the stairs!
Ha ha ha. Stay in your boxes & circles!!! Hey you, in that triangle...don’t move!!!
Why not make elevators voice command. Like Star trek.
Four?! We're only allowed two which some people take too seriously. If you're all already together or better going to lunch together, get on the elevator together. The elevator police are not waiting on the first floor.
Oh well, no one likes to be stared up and down in an elevator anyway.
Because those 4 people don’t breathe the same air?
😂😂😂
Omg this is just ridiculous, are we 3 years old?
YOU ARE THE PROBLEM CTV You are complicit. consequences karma ctvlies
Oh sure! A helpful idea until somebody farts. 🤦♂️
Touchless for the brainless!
DON'T TOUCH THE BUTTON!!!! LOL
Do the people thinking up these even have a working brain?
This new normal is simply a temporary inconvenience. This won't be 'normal' forever. The term 'new normal' is an annoyance. It's a temporary adjustment. Temporary.
Please stop saying ‘new normal’.
Communist control
Fine by me. The worst part of using elevators are other people anyway.
take the stairs
But how will people stare vacantly at the moving lit-up numbers?
Pathetic!
Even more awkwardness during an elevator ride.
99.7% survival rate btw
why are you still spreading fear porn?
Ridiculous.
Paranoia is a mental disorder
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