IT IS my personal opinion — just my very own personal opinion, under stand — that this city needs a how-to on elevator etiquette. Bloomberg‘s al ready stamped out cigarettes, so what else has he got ...

Does the door close button in your elevator actually work? In Trapped In An Elevator, one expert said the button was a sham. But after viewers wrote to us disputing that, we decided to run a little ...

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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Do all the buttons in an elevator work? Sometimes it seems like the elevator door stays open forever and there is a "close door" button for just those times, but does the button ...

After Trapped In An Elevator premiered last week, we started hearing from viewers who disagreed with one of our on-screen experts about a quirk of elevator operation: the door-close button. Does it ...

A button that lets you make someone’s day (or at least their morning) A button that lets you make someone’s day (or at least their morning) Elevator buttons can sometimes be fickle things — confusing ...

Can we speak, for a moment, about the humble elevator button? I know, there could hardly be a more seemingly inconsequential design element, yet the elevator button has become the bane of my existence ...

When you push the “door close” button on an elevator, does it really work? Some think it’s just there as a “placebo,” but a tech website says the buttons really do work.March 8, 2016 ...