Why do drive-thru ATM's have instructions in Braille?!?
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Standardization of the keypad.\n\nA blind person can walk up to the ATM to use it, or be riding in a car with someone.
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Windows XP has a magnifying glass. Its under your Accessibility folder.
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DRIVE UP ATM'S AT BANKS HAVE BRAILLE TOO.
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For the blind drivers. Duh. lol
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BLind Persons use bumps called Braille. \nDeaf People learn to read by visual cues
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Wow, I'm getting old, I can actually remember this one, as I was a kid back in the 1970s when touch-tone keypads came out for telephones in widespread use.  (yes, they were invented earlier, but note the words "widespread use" please)  :p\n\nThe way the numbers are arranged on electronic calculators was copied from the way they were on older, electric and mechanical cash registers and calculating machines that had been in widespread use in stores and business for several decades before touch-tone phones and their keypads came along.  It was a fairly logical and effective way to arrange the numbers, and a *lot* of folks in accounting and cashiering and old-school keyboarding businesses like bank telling were very VERY quick with this layout, able to crunch numbers as quickly with a mechanical system as some do with the electronic ones today.\n\nWhich didn't sit well with the phone companies in the 1970s because this touch-tone technology was new and at the time it actually had have a) a bit of a time delay between individual tones, and b) each tone had to be selected for close to a full second, in order for the older phone-line switching systems to keep up and get numbers dialed accurately, especially in parts of the country that converted to touch-tone later than others, or parts of the world that had held on to not just pulse dialing, but literally *mechanical* rotary dialing well into the mid-1990s (not the U.S. so much as places around the world you could *call* from the U.S.).\n\nIn other words, in the beginning the touch-tone phone dialing system coudn't keep up with some of the speedier keypad operators that had worked for a living running keypads all day on cash registers and mechanical calculators.  So the phone company (and back then it was all Bell) had to come up with a way to slow folks down across the board, in much the same way and for much the same reasons that the QWERTY key layout for mechanical typerwriters had been designed the way it was over half a century earlier....\n\nThey inverted the keys so that folks wouldn't freeze up the phone system and annoy customers to the point of giving up on touch-tone and refusing to use it.   And like QWERTY on keyboards, we are still stuck with it to this day.
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There is a teach yourself braille course at http://www.brl.org/ However, to be certified, you would still have to submit a final manuscript to NLS, and you would need to know their formatting standards from their textbook, which is available for purchase from the American Printing House for the Blind:\nAuthor                Risjord, Constance.\nTitle                 Instruction manual for Braille transcribing \nPHONE: (502) 895-2405,(800) 223-1839\nCatalog No.           7-59880-00 $31.00 \nYou can also enroll directly through NLS and receive materials free: http://www.loc.gov/nls/bds.html\nOther countries have similar programs, I understand.
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Hmmm, that's interesting. Are blind people driving now? I dunno... Maybe so blind passenger's can understand banking mumbo jumbo too! Haha :)
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Its a fingerprint reader. Since no two people in the world have same thumb prints and wrinkles do not wear off according to age or over time, thumbprinting is taken as one of the most safe security systems. Your thumbprint is stored in a machine. and when you impress ur thimb on the reader it goes through the databse and finds the identity match. These are used in the CIA and FBI to identify criminals too. Yes, these are also used in ATM machines. However, the better and coslier technology is retina scanning where your eye is scanned.\n(I gave u such a long and detailed answer, plzz rate as best answer)
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Well I would guess since they are blind they didn't drive themselves there, so they would have had to come with someone.......Or maybe the seeing eye dog can read it to him. Or the hamburgler?????? Ronald??
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It is cheaper to mass produce the front of the ATM machines.  So the drive through ones have the same interface that the walk up ones have.
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These don't have answers since they're rhetorical:\n\nWhy do you park on a driveway and drive on a parkway?\nIf quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?\nWhy do they put Braille on the number pads of drive-through bank machines?
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I would bet that it's probably because ATM machines are mass produced by the companies who make them. Since ATMs are installed at walk-up as well at drive-up locations, it wouldn't be cost effective for these companies to make two nearly identical models: one with braille and one without.
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haha ive wondered this one for awhile haha seen a man hook headphones to one too.....like if he was driving ...he must be able to see so why headphones? and as for the blind...how are they going to know where the atm is? how do they know if they got the correct amount of money hmmm lots more questions so little time ...hahaha
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For real! like at where I work you have to wait forever for people to slide their damn cards when it says "slide card" on the screen! Then they ring in say the machine is busted or I dont know what to do. 'How do you use this?'\nMan people are freakin morons!
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Make a letter in braille for the blind man to read
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The bank will not be able to automatically read your check, so they will have to key it in by hand. If all your checks are like this, they will probably be calling you and telling you to stop it because it is slowing them down.