somehow this is easier than bringing back automats

plural system in Seattle, WA (b. 1974)
lots of fictives from lots of media, some horses, some dragons, I dunno. the Pnictogen Wing is poorly mapped.
host: Mx. Kris Dreemurr (they/them)
chief messenger and usual front: Mx. Chara or Χαρά (they/them)
other members:
Mx. Frisk, historian (they/them)
Monophylos Fortikos, unicorn (he/him)
Kel the Purple, smol derg (xe/xem)
Pim the Dragon, Kel's sister (she/her)
somehow this is easier than bringing back automats
No, this is the Dahir Insaat stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oWk9gYSfME
Expect things to get far, far stupider from here.
Now imagining a repair tech having to go down a manhole and scrub the fluorescently-yellow cheez off a linear guide. New horizons indeed
I don't understand what this even improves for anyone. It says they still need to talk to an employee, and someone needs to put their order in the transporter. How is this better than the drive-thru? And why do we need autonomous robots - couldn't something on rails do the same job? They're working with some third-party startup so the whole thing smells like gimmicky bullshit designed to be VC-bait.
the one picture they have looks basically like it's on some kind of guideway - but not actually rails and probably steers independently instead of using track switches
This makes it so they don't have to handle all drive through orders as a single queue. For inside orders everything is set up to parallelize well already, if it weren't for the drive through lane people could get served quicker theoretically.
But practically it adds a lot of techno junk that can fail, and people can fail to understand, like you say, it might not actually turn out better for everyone as these things go.
I hate this so much.
This is just so utterly lacking in both imagination or technical rigor.
I think the part I am most incised about here is that on top of being impractical and poorly thought out it's all about hiding the mechanism. Why wouldn't you just build this above ground. This could be like Food Loop / Rollercoaster Restaurants but for drive through and instead it's just 1970's drive thru banking for your food, christ.
the company they are partnering with for lighting a bunch of money on fire is literally named Pipedream what are we even doing here
so they've invented drive-up banking from the 1960s