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Handing a stuck drive-thru order to a human lifted accuracy from 81% to 95%
McDonald's ran an automated voice at about 100 US drive-thrus for three years and shut it down in 2024. A 2025 audit of three chains using voice AI measured what happens when the machine stops understanding.
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