eli5: how does an elevator know it’s overloaded

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eli5: how does an elevator know it’s overloaded

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It has weight sensors that measure how heavy the elevator is at any given point in time. It’s usually calibrated to consider the empty elevator as “0”.
The computer is programmed with certain weight thresholds and what to do when they are reached.

Simplified further: basically every elevator has a scale attached that tells it’s computer how heavy it is.

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