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by 63 1809 days ago
I believe your story highlights precisely why more elevators don't include that functionality.
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No it doesn't. You can't prevent people from being a-holes and stealthily pressing 10 buttons before leaving the elevator. The feature as described is as useful as pressing a floor to stop on. Perhaps it makes more sense on smaller elevators than it does in large ones. Or perhaps it would make more sense to allow undoing a press only within the first few seconds.
In at least one elevator I rode in as a kid, pressing every button resulted in everything being de-selected.