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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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 ...

It’s an open and shut case: You’re not crazy if the “close door” button you’ve been madly jabbing has done absolutely nothing to make those elevator doors shut. Odds are it hasn’t, according to Otis ...

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 ...