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by mikeash 3517 days ago
Around here (Washington, DC area) drive-up ATMs are fairly common at banks which have drive-through service.

Having used both types of ATMs, I find the touch-screen ones less error prone. The touch targets are always gigantic. They pretty much have to be anyway to ensure that everybody can read the labels. I just touch what I want and it works. For ATMs with physical buttons on the side, I always have to crouch down to get the right angle so I can figure out which button does what. With the ones I've used, it's quite easy to get a viewing angle where it's ambiguous.

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In my area, there are several banks that had drive-up ATMs at some point, but most are unused nowadays.

One feature they had in common: each function button had Braille (raised dots for the blind) instructions also.

Yes, Braille. On the driver's side.

This could explain much of what I encounter on the roads.