Born in California
Did the school thing studying electronics, computers, release engineering and literary criticism.
I worked in the high tech world doing software release engineering and am now retired.
Then I got prostate cancer.
Now I am a blogger and work in my wood shop doing scroll saw work and marquetry.
Haha! Good point. I suppose someone could technically walk up to it, but how would they know a car wasn’t already there, or other cars in line waiting? They’d either walk smack into them, or they’d act ignorant and jump the queue.
Could it be because of a possible passenger in the car? Kind of farfetched but possible. Pied Type [up above] is probably right. As a person with disability, I can tell you that some of the accessibility issues have gotten way out of hand. The “ADA” isn’t all that useful.
Joking aside – the reason is standardization. The ATMs used in the drive through are the same as the walk up ones – just mounted differently. For ADA requirements all ATM must accommodate blind/low vision people so there is braille and a sound port for head phones. it would cost too much to have ADA and non-ADA versions systems and I have seen people walk up to a drive through ATM …
Andrew's View of the Week 
One of the great unsolved mysteries…
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I’ll let you know if we get a solution…
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Haha! Good point. I suppose someone could technically walk up to it, but how would they know a car wasn’t already there, or other cars in line waiting? They’d either walk smack into them, or they’d act ignorant and jump the queue.
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See, all kinds of bad things could happen.
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Putting braille on those drive thru banks should be illegal then.
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It’s more likely that law makers would require automakers to build cars that could be driven by seeing eye dogs…
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Very true!
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I’ve always wondered that myself. So…I see you’ve provided the answer to that question above. Thanks for clearing that one up for me.
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I knew you wanted to know.
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When are you hanging out your shingle that reads “All Your Questions Answered Here”?
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Anytime you need a question answered, just let me know. If I don’t know the answer, I’ll make one up …
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Ha! Somehow I knew you would do that. 😉
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Could it be because of a possible passenger in the car? Kind of farfetched but possible. Pied Type [up above] is probably right. As a person with disability, I can tell you that some of the accessibility issues have gotten way out of hand. The “ADA” isn’t all that useful.
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Joking aside – the reason is standardization. The ATMs used in the drive through are the same as the walk up ones – just mounted differently. For ADA requirements all ATM must accommodate blind/low vision people so there is braille and a sound port for head phones. it would cost too much to have ADA and non-ADA versions systems and I have seen people walk up to a drive through ATM …
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A great question, Andrew. The same could be asked about the braille next to the buttons in an elevator.
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I got a lot of good questions …
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Probably because our super-intelligent lawmakers require it?
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humm, not sure they’re smart enough to know what braille is.
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I wonder that every time I drive-through!!
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some people drive by braille …
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You use drive-through banks? Hmm… What else don’t I know about you?
Still waiting for your book to come out as an ebook…
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I’m a mysterious person – I might do an audio book … maybe …
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