The pedestrian call button an affront to intelligent design

Pedestrian buttons and ped lights are one of the biggest jokes traffic engineers have ever done and who ever promoted and signed off on current designs standards should be shot or at least publicly ridiculed for such an affront on

Intelligent design flop #2 - User Interface & Queuing
By way of an example lets design calling for elevator the same way as a pedestrian calls for a crossing light. So to get an elevator call button up to speed we need to first remove all visual feedback clues, no light that comes on when you press a button and no floor indicators.

Next we need to install a queue timer to maximize efficiency of the elevator and allow sufficient time for people to gather on the floor being served, that is to say make people wait at least a minute and half before an elevator even starts to move to their floor. Efficiency of the elevator is of the utmost importance which makes queuing also the utmost importance so even if the elevator is already on the floor people must wait, so have the elevator serve other floors before serving the floor it was resting on. (If you pressed a ped button just after the main light turned green you have to wait a full cycle for the green ped light to come on.)

Intelligent design flop #3