Blind Car Drivers?

Winston fired this volley in news: snipped-for-privacy@news2.newsguy.com:

Why not? Drive-up ATMs have Braille keyboards.

LLoyd

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Lloyd E. Sponenburgh
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"Approximately ten percent of those deemed legally blind, by any measure, have no vision. The rest have some vision, from light perception alone to relatively good acuity."

If I were a caregiver for a partially sighted person, it'd be convenient to have them use the ATM from the driver side passenger seat. The Braille would be a good 'parallel information path'.

I can 'see' that. :)

--Winston

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Winston

Have you seen traffic tickets, issued in braille? That's, next, probably.

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Stormin Mormon

That's because they use the same keypad in walkup ATMs. It reduces the inventory needed for service work, and the chances of being out of a Braille keypad when needed. I used to work next door to a Diebold service center, and talked to their techs when I was on break. They have guaranteed response & repair times in their contracts with banks and all of their other equipment. That is why most repairs are done at the assmbly level, rather than the component level. I used to get dozens of two year old gel cells for free from other bank equipment repair people that were replaced before they had a chance to fail.

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Michael A. Terrell

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