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The return of full-service? Gas pumping robot - Autoblog



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Dutch inventors might have ushered in the return of the full-service station. Yet like so many other things being taken out of the hands of flesh and blood people, the new full-service could be an all-robot affair. The robot -- called the Tankpitstop robot -- is affixed to the bowser, and if it recognizes the make and model of car, and your gas cap doesn't need a key, it will open everything up and start pumping.

The creation is the brainchild of a gas station operator who said he saw a robot milking a cow, and figured that a robot could fill a car. Heck, if robots can build cars and fill their fluids, we figure there's no reason why they can't fill a tank. The question now is how to let drivers know that the robot knows how to fill your car. What you don't want is to pull up in your freshly-waxed ride and hear the robotic equivalent of "Hmmm, let's try this..." As it stands, the robot costs €75,000. No telling what a station's liability insurance will cost.
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No robots putting gas in my car. NO. I am picturing the scene of carnage when it malfuntions. :HORROR:

Ugh. I feel like a Luddite.
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Beginning of the end indeed.
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Never will I allow that. Never.

Not even in 2015, when it has proven will happen.

/Back to the Future Part II reference.
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hmmm... i don't think i would want that thing near my car...
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Say whaaa??
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shemmy has more posts than me... wtf??? i need to get to work in here... (no not whoring )
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News flash, elderly lady mistaken by 'gas pumping robot' for a car. Film at 11.
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