The New Taco Bell

The New York Post has published an article describing the soon-to-built store in Brooklyn Park, Mn. The money quote in the article is:

 The goal of the new Taco Bell Defy concept is to get diners-on-the-go back on the road quickly — and without any interpersonal interaction.

Evidently there will be no cash involved. Diners will pay for their tacos using smart phones and QR codes. 

Left unsaid is what happens after the diners-on-the-go get back on the road. The most important aspect of fast food, this version included, is getting it quickly. Since almost all fast food choices are eaten with the hands, no silverware involved, when diners-on-the-go get out of the parking lot, they begin to eat. 

It's generally the case that when photos are taken of fatal car wrecks it's mandatory for those photos to include any beer or whiskey bottles in the car. Statistically, there must be a significant number of traffic fatalities that include a driver stained with mayonnaise, ketchup or salsa. But we don't know what that number might be because, unlike impaired driving, no records are kept of accidents where driver food consumption may have been a factor. In most jurisdictions it's now illegal to use a cell phone while driving but it's OK to wolf down a double cheese burger traveling 70 mph on two-lane blacktop.

Perhaps it's too late to arrest the insane fixation with time in modern American society.