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Push the Button
| 21. August 2006 | | Jure
Imam občutek, da bi Žižek na podlagi tega materiala znal kaj poreči.
For years, at thousands of New York City intersections, well-worn push buttons have offered harried walkers a rare promise of control over their pedestrian lives. The signs mounted above explained their purpose:
To Cross Street
Push Button
Wait for Walk Signal
Dept. of TransportationMillions of dutiful city residents and tourists have pushed them over the years, thinking it would help speed them in their journeys. Many trusting souls might have believed they actually worked. Others, more cynical, might have suspected they were broken but pushed anyway, out of habit, or in the off chance they might bring a walk sign more quickly.
As it turns out, the cynics were right.
The city deactivated most of the pedestrian buttons long ago with the emergence of computer-controlled traffic signals, even as an unwitting public continued to push on, according to city Department of Transportation officials. More than 2,500 of the 3,250 walk buttons that still exist function essentially as mechanical placebos, city figures show. Any benefit from them is only imagined. Več
In če še niste vedeli: enako je s tistim gumbom za zapiranje vrat v dvigalih. Vrata se zaprejo v enakem času, ne glede na vaše besno pritiskanje.
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sori, ampak tisto z dvigalom pa preverjeno ni res - no, mogoce v nekaterih dvigalih je, vendar je bistveno, da ni v vseh :)
si prepričana? ker meni se je že od nekdaj zdelo, da je tisti gumb samo za lajšanje nervoze ;) možno pa je vsekakor oboje
pred nekaj dnevi sem ugotovila, da dejansko deluje v mariborskem euro parku, sicer pa deluje tudi povsod po ZDA, kjer sem ga kdaj uporabila :)