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Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment (gizmodo.com)
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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I haven't gone through a drive-through in three years, but McDonald's tried this and it was atrocious. Every time I tried it it did not work and a human had to be pinged in.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Never mind AI; drive-throughs themselves are absolutely shit-tier urbanism and ought to be outlawed.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

McDonalds did this 3 yrs ago?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Yup, at least in major cities they were.