21st-Century Fast Food Drive-Through Alternative

Last week I drove through (in an EV, BTW, so Ye Old Hypocrisy Police can go back to your coffee 'n' doughnuts) the sleepy town of Gibsons, BC—and in this little burg of ~4000 people, was aghast to see from five to ten cars chugging away around each of its several drive-through-equipped fast-food joints.

At that moment, I was listening to a CBC radio feature about climate change, where a prominent researcher was saying the latest data made him feel like he was "watching a catastrophe in slow motion".

Let me get this straight: We _know_ the Earth is heating up, and we _know_ what terrible things we'll be doing to our children, and their children, and so on, if we don't avert it. Yet we're _still_ encouraging people—at the corporate level—to sit in their idling cars, waiting for meals?

Thus, my idea:

When you enter the restaurant, you have the option to request your order at a kiosk just like the one that'd be outside (but it's not anymore, see, because we finally got rational about that).

You and your party then board an electric themepark-ride-type car (perhaps made to look like sportscars, muscle cars, monster trucks—you know, all the stuff gas-burning peeps still love), which you operate along a track, at typically low drive-through speed, toward a special counter. (To prevent bumper-car inferences, each radar-equipped car stays a safe distance from the one ahead of it.)

Once you arrive at the counter and pay for and receive your order, you get to trundle to an unload area, where you disembark and exit, and your car automatically returns to the start position.

People who use this swell "hey, I'm doing all this in a car" system not only get to feel like they're still at the wheel, but are permitted to make driving sounds with their mouths at acceptable volume levels. And maybe their grandkids won't have to starve—everyone's a winner!

(NB: Ideally, power for this system would be generated by solar cells on the restaurant's roof, or wind power, or by somehow collecting the copious methane people generate from fast food... I'll leave such details to the annotators.)