Self-Driving KFC Food Truck in NYC. A Wildest Dream?

China’s streets are apparently offering self-driving KFC food trucks, selling drumsticks with ease. Meanwhile, NYC’s culinary scene? People are still disputing whether a hot dog qualifies as “street meat”. Only in New York City, a rogue KFC truck would be speeding across Manhattan while dodging delivery bikes and potholes like an over-caffeinated Mario Kart character.

Construction cones, wandering raccoons, and cabbies who think turn signals are optional would challenge even the savviest AI. City inspectors would want a human “babysitter” for the fryer (because apparently robots can’t handle secret recipes).

Consider the upsides: a truck that sits outside Penn Station at midnight, feeding tipsy revelers too sluggish to DoorDash, or one that trolls Brooklyn hipsters by refusing to serve avocado toast. China’s done it. Waymo’s testing it. The fundamental question isn’t “Can it work?” but “Will New Yorkers tolerate a Colonel Sanders bot judging their life choices with self-serving chicken?”