Can anyone explain to me why a drive up ATM has Braille on the machine to accommodate the driver?
Here is the Braille definition.
"Braille is a system of touch reading and writing for blind persons in which raised dots represent the letters of the alphabet. It also contains equivalents for punctuation marks and provides symbols to show letter groupings. People read braille by moving the hand or hands from left to right along each line."
Chase bank incidentally. That might explain it.
A blind person could take an Uber or lyft to the bank and use it.
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I took a tour of Denver's Mile High Stadium a few years ago. I was amused to find that the Officials Locker Room includes the room number in Braille.
Might explain a few calls they made on the field last year.
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OK, to be fair, all the rooms in the stadium include a Braille designation.
Maybe. Very accommodating I'd say. Plus the passenger would definitely need to be seated behind the driver. Plus the rear window needs to roll all the way down. Many rear windows do not roll down fully as yet another nanny feature engineered into cars. Seems to me a lot a variables at play to conduct said transaction.
If I were blind I would appreciate it....
Because it's cheaper to make one set of buttons that will work on both walk-up and drive-up ATMs.
Quote from: deathsled on August 13, 2023, 12:55:39 PM
Chase bank incidentally. That might explain it.
LOL...totally agree.
Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on August 13, 2023, 02:48:40 PM
Because it's cheaper to make one set of buttons that will work on both walk-up and drive-up ATMs.
Yes, perhaps. The Henry Ford approach of any color you want as long as it's black.
Quote from: deathsled on August 13, 2023, 04:53:53 PM
Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on August 13, 2023, 02:48:40 PM
Because it's cheaper to make one set of buttons that will work on both walk-up and drive-up ATMs.
Yes, perhaps. The Henry Ford approach of any color you want as long as it's black.
Only from 1914-25 when they were using every trick to boost production and reduce cost. Black was the cheapest paint, there were no wrong color part screwups on the line and it's also been said he went to black because it dried the quickest. And you'll be happy to know the T also came in the same colors as a 66 Hertz car - blue, red, grey, and green - but you'll need to settle for gray instead of white.
I had a great-uncle Larry (90+) who was legally blind and was one of the funniest people I've ever known (I've written about his exploits of driving his gas-powered golf cart into supermarkets and purposely running into displays, then yelling "Sorry...I'm blind!"
He could read Braille, so one time I asked him to feel a stucco wall (one of those old kind with a zillion little pin points sticking out) and tell me what he could read. He thought that was hilarious and would play that joke on people while he waited in a line somewhere, with his blind assist cane. He'd feel the wall line by line, and then say something like "Hey, look, right here...President Lincoln spelled "emancipation" wrong."
It was great. People didn't know what to think.
Maybe he suggested Braille at the drive-thru ATM? Sound like something he'd do, with a completely straight face. God, I miss him.
Quote from: Side-Oilers on August 13, 2023, 08:32:27 PM
I had a great-uncle Larry (90+) who was legally blind ...
My mom was nearly blind in one eye. They made her renew her license yearly. When she was at DMV one time the lady at the counter said "well if you just sign this form that you know you're blind we can give you a 5 year license". Gotta love CA.
Brett, that's great! Glad the DMV worked out for her.
To keep his driver's license for so many decades (up until about age 85) Uncle Larry had a multiple-overlaying lens concoction that must have had five lenses all together. He wore it on one eye of his glasses. He was completely blind, except for a little bit of peripheral sight in that one eye. He kept his license for a long time by proving to the DMV that he could see enough to safely drive. Each time they gave him a driving test and he did fine. He told us later on that the last couple to times he had no idea how close he was to obstacles, but just lucked out. He drove his same old Ford truck he'd had for 20+ years, occasionally towing something, somewhere.
The funniest part was that he always insisted on driving at night (especially on the family house boat at Havasu.) He (and the rest of us) was usually three sheets to the wind by that point, but said that he could see just as well at night as he could during the day. Made sense to us. And he could still dock that big party barge without busting up too much lumber...or an occasional prop.
I love that generation. The Greatest, absolutely!
Alrighty !