2006-06-29 07:52:23 · 13 answers · asked by midi_junkie 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Some seeing-eye dogs can drive, but since dogs have no fingers, they cannot push the buttons on the ATM. Therefore, the blind person is forced to do it.
2006-06-29 07:55:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cute question.
Probably for practical reasons...the keypads are mass produced and put on all ATM's regardless of whether they are drive-through. It's more efficient that way.
2006-06-29 14:56:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Lexie and debster92 are right, they're just mass-produced ATMS.
Shadar, Some ATMS have headphone jacks for the blind too, or they have a voice that reads the screen very quietly.
2006-06-29 15:14:38 · answer #3 · answered by electroberry1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Come to think of it, why do they put it on any ATM? I've yet to see an ATM that wasn't a visual interface. Indeed, if you can't read the on-screen prompts, how the hell do you know what buttons to press?
2006-06-29 14:57:42 · answer #4 · answered by Shadar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps for the blind person in the back seat who doesn't want to trust the driver with his ATM code.
I guess we're so used to the idea of "one car one person" that we can't even think of a blind passenger in a car. Scary.
2006-06-29 22:18:53 · answer #5 · answered by NotEasilyFooled 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ATM keyboards are most likly standard. They probably use the same ones no matter where the ATM is. Plus, it is possible to walk up to most drive-up ATMS
2006-06-29 14:56:08 · answer #6 · answered by lexie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've often wondered that myself. Maybe it's just standard manufacturing, as someone else mentioned, but I wonder if it's a regulation of some sort, like a rule that the company has to follow for all their banking machines.
2006-06-29 15:13:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought about that myself and got a good laugh out of it but then
I thought that since ATM's are on 24 hrs. maybe they put it there so
somene can walk up to it after hours to get cash or whatever.
2006-06-29 14:59:12 · answer #8 · answered by booboo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it is cheaper to make all the keypads the same.
2006-06-29 18:48:44 · answer #9 · answered by metaraison 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's for the blind passengers in foreign cars and blind backseat drivers and blind pillion passengers and blind rickshaw passengers and for sighted fashion victims wearing shades at night who don't want to look uncool at the expense of looking stupid.
I may be wrong, though it won't be the first time.
2006-06-29 15:41:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋