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'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology (www.bbc.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

At least around here, the wheel locks are activated by a big antenna loop around (usually) the parking lot, to prevent them from being rolled off by homeless people. Unfortunately they also fail "safe", so when the locking gizmo's batteries run dry they lock the wheels. You may have just been the lucky winner of it locking itself at coincidentally the worst moment! Don't you feel special!