Kansas City Downtown Dystopia Realized: Robots Already Yelling At Pedestrians

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Credit to this report for making an issue out of it . . . And bring up the topic for debate . . .

DO ROBOTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO YELL AT KANSAS CITY LOCALS?!?!

 Here's the word . . .

A motion-detected speaker announces ‘you are under surveillance’ when someone walks or drives into two parking lots off 17th & Main Street.

Meanwhile, some business owners, like David Epstein at Tom’s Town Distilling, said the loudness is a problem.

“We have seen our weekday sales go down, and I attribute that 100% to that,” Epstein said. “We have a lot of weddings here, so in between saying I do, they have to hear ‘you’re under surveillance.’”

They even named one of their drinks on the menu ‘under surveillance.’

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