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I hope these robots know how to break a twenty. Human delivery people can, and vending machines can, so I expect that to be reasonable to implement in deliver
by catalogia 7y ago
I hope these robots know how to break a twenty. Human delivery people can, and vending machines can, so I expect that to be reasonable to implement in delivery robots.
Yet for some reason, I feel pretty pessimistic about this.
- krapp 7y agoDon't worry - in the post-crash automated economy of the future no human will ever have an entire twenty dollar bill to break.
- busymom0 7y agoI feel like this whole thing will also make cash payments extinct as that requires touching dirty bills. I even think the credit machines will become tap only so you don’t have to touch dirty machines used by thousands of others and enter PIN numbers.
- djohnston 7y agoI hope cash doesn't go extinct, unless it's replaced by crypto that can guarantee anonymity like monero or whatever it was called.
- busymom0 7y agoMe too. I don't think crypto can ever be implemented correctly as long as government is involved in it. The current state of crypto isn't really anonymous since big banks are still involved.
- jotm 7y agoI don't know about the US, but there's a major push to move to electronic payments around the EU. Bank accounts are free, terminals are dirt cheap, even the poorest get contactless cards. Not to mention that cash+coin machines that can also give change have been around and reliable for a while now. But having autonomous cash-filled robots around is just inviting trouble.