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Payment is made up front in cash, credit card or voucher form.
A car pulls into a drive-through (or for the pedants, drive-thru,) and selects a meal from a menu, either from a conventional fuzzy sounding operator or a computer based interface. Hell, you could even have a site available via WAP phones
to order in advance.
Cars are then told to line up their car with a marking on the road, the rear, driver/passenger side window must be wound down. A net should be placed just on the inside of the open window.
The customers are then told to accelerate at a constant speed through to the firing range.
Perhaps with the aid of advanced AI technology programmed to recognise car windows or some sort of apparatus that the user is instructed to affix to the top of their open window, a cannon lines up, and fires the food at the car. The net catches the food and everyone is happy.
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This could be installed on motorways (interstates) so people don't even have to get out of a traffic jam (gridlock) in order to get some food. |
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sdm: You probably wouldn't want to be accelerating at a constant rate, but instead driving at a constantish low speed. It would make the aiming easier. |
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I think that you could do better than a net, though. The food might bounce straight out again. If you're not careful with the implementation, the food could also turn out to be either (a) rather crumpled; or (b) all over the passenger window. |
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I also hope that this might stop people asking some variation on the theme of "Do you want fries with that?" ... Either that, or they web interface will do what Amazon.com does and say "most people who ordered what you did also bought fries and coke". |
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cp, //If you're not careful ... the food could also turn out ... rather crumpled// I still don't see how this differs from the average trip to McDonalds. <insert: McDonalds is shit rant> |
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Point taken. However, unless McDonalds' standards have been dropping even lower than normal, the food tends not to be splattered all over the windscreen, car door or wall due to any number of minor faults in the device. |
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Why not have the ordering microphone thing at a central location, and then a couple of blocks away at each set of traffic lights, a collection point. You'd go "Two gristleburgers and an filet-o-piss, and I'm heading North", and head off. This may be stupid, but it's no stupider than going to MacDonalds. Either that, or phone ahead. |
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Ha, phone ahead indeed. I used to have a friend who was an MC - he had the word power to prove it. We spent some Saturdays watching this guy as he called different McDonalds', KFCs, and such, and tried to scam free food. |
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It was a lot more fun than prank calling, plus, if we were good at it, we would get free food. Once we even got a couple of pizzas delivered. |
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A rapper. He bust dem rhymes! Y'all. |
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One of those cornucopia thingys for the image of a Big Mac hurtling at 240 mph in through the rear window of a vehicle doing 65 mph. |
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McDonald's burger cannon operator "Launsssch one, launsssch two, launsssch drinkshh, eight shec'nshh to impacsshht, shicsh, fifve, four, shthree, two, one. Good hit! Good hit! Good hit! Can we try a shupplementary on the drinksshh?" |
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Perhaps you could use a laser guidance system like the military do on operator-guided gravity weapons? |
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// Perhaps you could use a laser guidance system like the military do on operator-guided gravity weapons? // |
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I can see it now: a kids on a moped chasing after your car and reflecting a laser off your rear window to guide your dinner home. What about re-usable homing missiles? You get a discount if you bring one back at the same time as you order. |
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AFOC: Apologies if you're joking, but that cornucopia thing is a croissant. I know it takes some people a while to work it out. |
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I just assumed this would involve ringing ahead, a transponder on the car (individual IFF signals for each vehicle) and a fixed point which you drive past. As you do so some kid with a killer joystick technique paints your car with the laser and ZOT!, there's a 'burger embedded in the head of your rear seat passenger*. |
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* Mental note: Ensure mother-in-law is in rear seat of car when next I order driveby 'burgers. |
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Forget the net. Just face the open window and open your mouth. |
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How do you handle the drinks? Just fire the liquid into a bucket on the roof? |
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virtual croissant to A Farrago Of Calumnies for the possible alternative title "drive-by burgers" |
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Launched by Tacobel's Canon? |
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Great opportunity for toll booths on
highways. Whilst the driver pays the
road
toll, food is delivered. |
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In the classical way, the driver hits a
button on the box while the vehicle is
halted to pay and a standard order of
burger and
fries/chips is fired in through the
passenger window, |
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With wireless payment, there are two
lanes: 'telepass' and 'telepass with
burger', no need to phone ahead
anymore. As the idea grows in
popularity, more lanes could be
provided to offer different menu items.
The huge roofs of toll plazas could be
used to provide solar power for the
reheating |
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