Gas pumping robot (the beginning of the end)

[Janizary]

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

Originally Posted by autoblog.com

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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Janizary's thoughts:

NO
NO
NO, not even in New Jersey.

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.

[2fast4u2]

Beginning of the end indeed.

[jasonandre]

Retirement communities rejoice.

[CameronJr9]

Never will I allow that. Never.

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

/Back to the Future Part II reference.

[bizzybearfigiblue]

hmmm... i don't think i would want that thing near my car...

[shemmy]

Say whaaa??

[bizzybearfigiblue]

shemmy has more posts than me... wtf??? i need to get to work in here... (no not whoring )

[Janizary]

News flash, elderly lady mistaken by 'gas pumping robot' for a car. Film at 11.