The Future of Bill Validation!

I thought this was pretty funny. This is at the payment station at the parking garage next door to my business.

It's a closeup of the part of the machine that accepts cash...called a Bill Validator. What's funny is how, when it's ready to accept money, it sits there flashing a self promotional slogan, "THE FUTURE OF BILL VALIDATION!" I just think that's ridiculously funny.

It's the kind of garage where you get a card when you enter and pay just before retrieving your car.

Ordinarily it sits there with "BV INHIBITED" on the display. So after you insert the card and any discount coupon when the validator is ready to take money it starts flashing this promotional slogan "CASHCODE - THE FUTURE OF BILL VALIDATION" (although the leading C seems to be truncated the first time through). And look at the green LED's flashing where you put the currency in....it's like you're landing the shuttlecraft on the Enterprise! At the end after I have inserted a credit card elsewhere it goes back to "BV INHIBITED."

Can "Otis - The Future of Elevators" and "Kohler - The Future of Toilets" be far behind?

I did a little research and Cashcode is based in Ontario but they are a unit of Crane & Co. which used to make, among other things, toilets, but they sold off that business.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• crane
• cashcode
• bill validator
• validator
• cash
• payment
• garages
• vending
• machines
• parking

[RomanticLinguaphilia]

That plus the error message, plus the almost _KNIGHT RIDER_ LED display :-D

[lowsperm81]

looks like the hardware programmer forgot to remove the promotional messages when they installed that bill acceptor to the parking company...