Non-motoring > Thermostats, Close Door buttons and Traffic lights Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Skoda Replies: 3
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New Thu 11 Nov 10 19:09 
 Thermostats, Close Door buttons and Traffic lights - Skoda
Stumbled across this, it gave me a chuckle.

idle.slashdot.org/story/10/11/08/1521226/The-Placebo-Effect-Not-Just-On-Drugs

Those guys at OTIS lifts must be 50% psychology lab 50% lift sales. They found, i think in the 70s, that young men would destroy lifts. They put cameras in some lifts and found young guys would take bit by bit away with them, a button, the emergency phone door, they'd even remove or at least break the support rails round the side.

They tried a few things, alarms, flashing lights, pausing the lift before settling on installing mirrors. They found that as soon as you put a mirror in the lift, young guys were too busy looking at themselves to destroy the lifts :-)
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New Fri 12 Nov 10 05:43 
 Thermostats, Close Door buttons and Traffic lights - Pat
Now, why am I surprised at that:)

Pat
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New Fri 12 Nov 10 08:47 
 Thermostats, Close Door buttons and Traffic lights - Bellboy
a few years ago all autotrader adverts were hand written onto sheets of paper in triplicate and this day a colleague asked mE to proof read all the wordings were right on them
well on one it said push button windows so i asked him what they were,electric windows said he
so why not put electric windows then i asked
i ribbed him for a long time over it
KISS
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New Fri 12 Nov 10 12:10 
 Thermostats, Close Door buttons and Traffic lights - Old Navy
>> Now, why am I surprised at that:)
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>> Pat
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Must be why lorries have so many mirrors. :-)
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