Currency Redesign: Good for the Blind Bad for Vending Machine Industry
Bush Administration Doesn’t Favor New Money Design — “An effort to force a redesign of the nation’s currency so paper money could be more easily used by the blind would be too expensive and could cause undue hardships on the vending machine industry, the Bush administration says.”
The redesign amounts to changing the size of currency so that blind users can easily discriminate between denominations. However, this would make it tough for vending machines to handle those different sizes. Entirely new systems would need to be developed and deployed. Either way, the cost will be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
December 25th, 2006 at 5:52 am
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