Yes, I've seen the A/C motion sensors in CA also, and a few other places in the US.
I find that, when I go to bed at night and stop moving, it thinks I've left and turns the temperature up in the room. I don't like that.
This is one of those things we still don't have a good solution for, but as fuel costs continue to rise more and more will be looking for a solution. Let's hope they find a good one!.
Arkansawyer said:
I find that, when I go to bed at night and stop moving, it thinks I've left and turns the temperature up in the room. I don't like that.
Try being a female in a public restroom.
(okay so that didn't sound right, the auto flush toilets that flush when you are still there, sorry to be graphic, but they do and it is NOT GOOD! Esp little kids sitting there and it flushes on them!)
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Or, the opposite, it doesn't flush at all. You can stand there waving your hand in front of the sensor, but nothing happens. Luckily, most of them also have a little flush button next to the sensor. I can tell you, tho, the first time I used one of those sensor toilets I almost screamed.
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Madeleine said:
...the first time I used one of those sensor toilets I almost screamed.
You should have seen the crowds here in the 1960s when we got our first real supermarket. At the grand opening, traffic was backed up all over town and people had to park and walk blocks to get to the store due to the crowds.
And what had the come to see? Not aisles and aisles of exotic foods. No, they were there to see, and eventually get up the nerve to try, the first automatic doors they'd ever seen. Just walk up to the door and it opens! People went on about it for weeks!
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We took a short cruise in Barcelona. It sells to the Spanish as an introduction to cruising. Every time we got on the elevator there were people already in, but no buttons pushed. They were just standing in the elevator and going up and down because they had never seen one, before.
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Eric Arthur Blair said:
We took a short cruise in Barcelona. It sells to the Spanish as an introduction to cruising. Every time we got on the elevator there were people already in, but no buttons pushed. They were just standing in the elevator and going up and down because they had never seen one, before.
Speaking of the Sabbath.
Elevators in Israel are set to automatic so no buttons are pushed on the Sabbath. Just made me think of that...
Reminds me of the moving footpaths at airports, when there is time to kill it is always fun to watch people get on and stumble off. Not sure what they think happens at the end, but they are surprised by it!
I used to ride
the fast elevator in downtown Sydney (Remington Centre) every day, it bypassed every floor at top speed until the 24th, then stopped one ach one til the 28th. People who got on that accidentally were in for a treat!
PS I added Remington Centre as we have that small world thing going on...people stumble in here and we find commonalities from time to time. I had a guest from NC here overnight who coincidentally used to work in my building and walk past my desk every day to the Commodore of Logistics office (DoD). His son was at his high school prom while they were here on their anniversary, and the son was born there, when he walked past my desk all the time.
BTW they spilled red wine in the room (here) and used our new white towels to mop it up). Things never change, aye.
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