[crowf]

> In hospitals, elevators with Sabbath mode would be considered dangerous because they are to be relied on for fast service for transporting patients in dire need of care or surgery.

That's wrong for 2 reasons. First of all, most/all major hospitals in Israel have a shabbat mode. The solutions are either to have many elevators, with only some of them stoping at every floor, and/or have a manual override. If someone presses a button it goes directly there, otherwise it goes floor by floor.

[tgsovlerkhgsel]

> If someone presses a button it goes directly there, otherwise it goes floor by floor.

This is also a good compromise to let people follow their religious practices without imposing the impact from them on everyone else.

[pmiller2]

Pushing the button in this case is still in accordance with Judaism. There is a commandment to preserve life that takes precedence over everything else.

[aaronbrethorst]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikuach_nefesh