How? Isn't 90% of the problems that American experience overseas with unatteneded koisks and such? (Merchants you can talk to face to face can usually take the swipe, though many seem not know it until they try.) How does putting a chip&signature card into a kiosk that expects a PIN as the security verification work? Are you told to put in a specific "generic" PIN for that card type?

If it doesn't work in unattended kiosks, then I'm not sure what good it is for consumers. Unattended kiosks, from what I understand, are the main problem, not a tangential problem. (Perhaps because there are many more ways to work around a seeming unacceptance of swipe when there's a human involved, but no ways to work around it other than chip&pin AFAIK when there's no human in sight.)