Reply #30: The bill acceptor thing is THE holdup [View All]

Every vending machine sold in America today has a bill acceptor on it, all ATMs have bill handlers, all self checkouts have them...not to mention coin changers and video poker machines. Throw all those people together--NONE of whom want to spend a hundreds of dollars buying a new bill acceptor for every machine they own--and you've got a very powerful lobbying force.

Someone mentioned Braille. I know that wouldn't work. Money gets folded up, rubbed against itself, crumpled...which would flatten out the Braille bumps and defeat the purpose.

I remember them talking about this problem when I was in school--I graduated in 1981. Back then, nothing except some old gas pumps had bill acceptors on them, so this change would have been fairly painless. Now? There's no damn way.