# What is this button **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Tags:** toyota, camry\ **Created:** [August 21, 2020, 12:40am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-this-button/168986 "2020-08-21T00:40:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-this-button/168986/21 "2020-08-22T02:46:42Z")
> [@jtsanders](#): > > I’ve seen many crosswalks that don’t give pedestrians the safe walk sign unless the button is pushed That’s exactly the case here Every time I walk to an intersection, I push the button, because I can’t be sure the lady that’s already standing there has done so. And that has often turned out to be the case, because some people are too busy playing with their phone to push the button . . . ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 11:42am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-this-button/168986/22 "2020-08-22T11:42:19Z")
In my youth I had a Plymouth with a push button transmission. I mounted a fake floor shift on the hump with a 4 speed knob. ---
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 11:46am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-this-button/168986/23 "2020-08-22T11:46:27Z")
We had an old elevator at work. It had timer relays. You could push the close door button and shorten the cycle but only after a 5 second delay. They updated the controls and then the close door only worked if someone pushed the hold open. The normal open cycle was longer as well. Elevator guys said it’s that way to accomodate physically challenged that need more time. You can’t short cycle with the button. Liability concerns come into play yet again… ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-this-button/168986/24 "2020-08-22T15:41:46Z")
Yeah, I was thinking Cali on business trips. ---
**Author:** ![lance.cleghorn\_167694](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c89c15/32.png) [@lance.cleghorn\_167694](https://community.cartalk.com/u/lance.cleghorn_167694)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-this-button/168986/25 "2020-08-22T17:20:14Z")
![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/e/c/ec46a21c82cf9c0b9c52a65723707669026eb646.jpeg) Got it. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-this-button/168986/26 "2020-08-22T21:47:16Z")
> [@Nevada\_545](#): > > Looks like a hands free phone module was installed, Looks like Nevada got it right off the bat but the other answers were more fun. ---
**Author:** ![Nevada\_545](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nevada_545/32/41232_2.png) [@Nevada\_545](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Nevada_545)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-this-button/168986/27 "2020-08-22T21:56:05Z")
I have seen a few of those “Parrot” hands free systems in cars, they have no affect on crosswalk signs. ---
**Author:** ![galant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/77aa72/32.png) [@galant](https://community.cartalk.com/u/galant)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-this-button/168986/28 "2020-08-22T22:09:59Z")
My interest in the eject button has faded as MIL is now in assisted living and can’t get out (The only one good thing about COVID!). I am now looking for a mute button for the passenger seat. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-this-button/168986/29 "2020-08-23T01:31:12Z")
> [@galant](#): > > MIL is now in assisted living and can’t get out As they say at Disney Haunted Mansion, there is ONE way out. ---
**Author:** ![p.g.i.holmes\_156524](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@p.g.i.holmes\_156524](https://community.cartalk.com/u/p.g.i.holmes_156524)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 2:22am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-this-button/168986/30 "2020-08-24T02:22:14Z")
In every elevator I’ve been in in Japan the close door button works almost instantly. I guess it highlights the different behavioural & cultural expectations between cultures. The designers & engineers don’t have to mitigate the asshat factor. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-this-button/168986/31 "2020-08-24T02:55:58Z")
> [@p.g.i.holmes\_156524](#): > > In every elevator I’ve been in in Japan the close door button works almost instantly. It was interesting at a hotel in Israel there was one elevator designated as a no button touch elevator. You got in and it made the rounds without human intervention. None of the buttons were activated. ---
**Author:** ![galant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/77aa72/32.png) [@galant](https://community.cartalk.com/u/galant)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 5:51am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-this-button/168986/32 "2020-08-24T05:51:32Z")
I take the stair unless I am really forced to. But the same issue I guess applies to the AC controls in the offices. I guess most of them are not connected to anything, but it gives the employees the feeling that they are controlling something. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 6:16am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-this-button/168986/33 "2020-08-24T06:16:47Z")
Ours worked. If it was too cold, we’d put a rag over the thermostat and that would summon the heat-until the building engineer caught us. The no touch buttons in the elevator were for those that were forbidden to do work on the Sabbath and pushing an elevator button was classified as work. [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-this-button/168986.md?page=1)