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Telling you to step back a few feet could solve the problem. I had this issue where I had to get a covid test in Orlando and we walked there but they were expe

Telling you to step back a few feet could solve the problem. I had this issue where I had to get a covid test in Orlando and we walked there but they were expecting to come in a car. I ordered an Uber for that, just to sit in the car in a drive through. The whole experience was ridiculous.... The hotel we were staying at was just 5 minutes and we initially said let's just walk.

devilbunny 3y ago
It doesn't solve the problem of how you pay them (which would be feasibly fixed with contactless methods) or get your food without exposing the employees - very few (if any) drive-through restaurants have a sliding drawer that they can use to exchange payment methods or the ordered food, the way that banks and pharmacies do.
- FooBarBizBazz 3y ago
  This makes no sense, because what do the car drivers do? You're about three feet away from a person either way. They're handing you cash or a credit card either way. The only difference is that one is sitting in a vehicle with the window open, and the other is on their own two feet. Any difference in "exposure" is completely psychological, maybe due to some perception that the person in the car is "in another room". But there's no less physical contact. Sure, I'll give a pass for some degree of paranoia at the time -- lots of us were uselessly Clorox(TM)-wiping our groceries -- though, we were well past the peak when this happened -- but at this point we all know that worrying about surfaces is almost completely pointless. So all this "contactless" stuff is just a bunch of technology providers and payment networks trying to ride in opportunistically on peoples' fears. Which, mercifully, have subsided along with most of the threat.
  - xboxnolifes 3y ago
    You're assuming reasonable people and ignoring the original objection of "jumping through the window". A person in a car isn't going to go from a sitting position to jumping through two windows faster than someone standing.
  - devilbunny 3y ago
    It's not about touching the same things. It's about potential violence. A person who is sitting in a car has to go through two windows and rise from a sitting position to attack someone inside. A pedestrian can be facing the window directly and grab with both hands. If a driver pulls a gun, the employee can duck. A pedestrian can lean inside and shoot them anyway. A person in a car necessarily excludes the possibility that there are accomplices hidden just outside of employee view. Pedestrians, not so much.

devilbunny 3y ago

It doesn't solve the problem of how you pay them (which would be feasibly fixed with contactless methods) or get your food without exposing the employees - very few (if any) drive-through restaurants have a sliding drawer that they can use to exchange payment methods or the ordered food, the way that banks and pharmacies do.

FooBarBizBazz 3y ago
This makes no sense, because what do the car drivers do? You're about three feet away from a person either way. They're handing you cash or a credit card either way. The only difference is that one is sitting in a vehicle with the window open, and the other is on their own two feet. Any difference in "exposure" is completely psychological, maybe due to some perception that the person in the car is "in another room". But there's no less physical contact. Sure, I'll give a pass for some degree of paranoia at the time -- lots of us were uselessly Clorox(TM)-wiping our groceries -- though, we were well past the peak when this happened -- but at this point we all know that worrying about surfaces is almost completely pointless. So all this "contactless" stuff is just a bunch of technology providers and payment networks trying to ride in opportunistically on peoples' fears. Which, mercifully, have subsided along with most of the threat.
- xboxnolifes 3y ago
  You're assuming reasonable people and ignoring the original objection of "jumping through the window". A person in a car isn't going to go from a sitting position to jumping through two windows faster than someone standing.
- devilbunny 3y ago
  It's not about touching the same things. It's about potential violence. A person who is sitting in a car has to go through two windows and rise from a sitting position to attack someone inside. A pedestrian can be facing the window directly and grab with both hands. If a driver pulls a gun, the employee can duck. A pedestrian can lean inside and shoot them anyway. A person in a car necessarily excludes the possibility that there are accomplices hidden just outside of employee view. Pedestrians, not so much.