Why do drive-through ATMs have brail on them?

Question

I realize this is a dumb question. I was trying to get points. I didn't realize that you LOSE points for asking questions. I'm kinda' new to this thing. I know the answer is that the factories only produce one kind of ATM to save money. It makes sense. Sorry for making you think about a dumb thing. Don't put me on your shite list, por favor...

Answer 1

who knowssss.

Answer 2

So people like you could have a question to ask on Yahoo! Answers fifty million times.

Answer 3

The ATM Manufacturers only make one kind of ATM. Then they fit it into various locations: inside the bank, in a wall at a grocery store, and with the right kind of housing, they put them outside. There isn't a different design for "ATMs for Inside" and "ATMs for Outside." They're all designed to be used both inside and outside, anywhere and everywhere. So the banks just put them in the housing for outside, stick it in a drive-through lane and voila: drive-up ATM... with Braille. It's not about "political correctness" or any other such nonsense, it's just cheaper to have them ALL with braille, than to produced different models define by where they're going to be placed: inside (with braille), outside on a wall (with braille), outside in a drive-up lane (without braille), etc. It's pure economics: make them ALL with braille. Make them ALL capable of being placed outside. Let the bank decide where they want them placed.

Answer 4

I have walked up to ATM's, even the drive through ones, so I think as an act of accomodation under the law, they had to make it possible for a visually handicapped person to use the ATM machine on their own. They of course would not be driving.

Answer 5

Nice observation... maybe if the blind person has someone driving they can still go thru the drive through, but get out to use it...

Answer 6

Because people can WALK up to a drive through ATM. I do it all the time.

Answer 7

Because they are required to be accessible to everyone under federal law. Ever hear of the Americans with Disabilities Act?

Answer 8

yada yada interstate highways in Alaska ... locks on the doors of a 7-11.  Yawn.

Because banks buy the same faceplate for all their ATMs drive up or walk up.  Because the ADA requires it.  Because my half-blind girlfriend passenger feels cuddly when she leans over to key in her PIN.

Presumably you know that this same meaningless question has been asked 1,576,473 times at Christmas parties this year alone.  Crumbs, it's in at least 5 books that I know of.

Get with it, bud, get some originality going.

Answer 9

lmao good question i never thought about that

lol

Answer 10

so you can cover the key pad with your other hand..and still tell what you are doing..

Answer 11

That's how nutty our country has become when it comes to sensitivity. Prime example of when Political Correctness overtakes Common Sense.

Answer 12

For blind drivers, duh.

Answer 13

I would think because even if someone else is driving, the blind person may want to make the transaction theirself since they could be easily taken advantage of.