The destination is the goal

摘要

There are days when simply everything appears to have conspired against you. Then you are sprinting into the elevator at the last minute, only to find out that of course, now of all times when you are in a hurry, it is full to bursting point. And of course, on a day like this, the car also stops at every floor to let people get in or out, or also because someone had called the elevator but is now already on their way in another car. Maybe the only advantage is that in this way you have enough time to think up an excuse for being late. However, the engineers at ThyssenKrupp Elevator evidently have a soft spot for people in a hurry. They picked up the idea of so-called destination selection control (DSC) and developed a generation of elevators that think for themselves. Thus a computer calculates the ideal route for every passenger in a matter of seconds and allocates the most suitable elevator to him. Now people who belong together travel together, such that only passengers with a matching "journey profile" share an elevator car.