How to fill with petrol using app when on a bike?

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ian505050 · Traffic Copper Joined: 27 Oct 2010 Karma :

Triton Thrasher · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 16 Oct 2012 Karma :

If you’re using a petrol filling phone app, why do you have to mess about with the pump and hose as well?

Useless app!
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AdamEf · Nova Slayer Joined: 19 Dec 2015 Karma :

The app isn't designed as a benefit for customers. It's for the garage saving money on employees. Like the self checkouts in supermarkets. Minimising staff costs and pushing up turnover in as short a time as possible.

AdamEf · Nova Slayer Joined: 19 Dec 2015 Karma :

These apps replacing everything are also worth more to companies providing them as data tracking devices that we all sign up to by accepting the small print / T&C. I always wondered how all the "Yobike" and similar cycle hire schemes that are appearing around the world eveywhere are making money out of charging £1 per hire. Turns out the data they collect is the main money maker for them. It tracks your journey through the GPS on the bike and app, which is linked to your identity in your account, which is linked to your debit cards, other apps etc and helps build a bigger picture, when combined with other third party data also collected through Google etc to become a valuable picture of millions of people's spending and personal info sold to marketing companies etc. Uber is similar apparently... the data they're harvesting is a big money maker for them.

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Kawasaki Jimbo · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Oct 2015 Karma :

Talking of paranoia when fuelling up I saw this sign today and subsequently looked into 'Facewatch.'

https://s25.postimg.cc/x53458fyn/IMG_0456.jpg

(Oh, and 135p/Litre!)

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AdamEf · Nova Slayer Joined: 19 Dec 2015 Karma :

It's not all bad! Also creating some interesting situations where people are comitting crimes and giving someone else their phone / accounts access that gets tracked somewhere else as them providing an alibi for their whereabouts!

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Mr Hammers · World Chat Champion Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Karma :

I use Shell's Fill Up and Go all the time. That way i can keep track of my fill ups on Fuelly. I always used to forget to look at the price/litres, and now i get home and check my email and all the details, other than mileage, are all there. No waiting for it to appear in my online account. And as i always have my phone with me, but not always my wallet, no worries about paying. I think it's great Smile

Only had one time where the disembodied voice told me i shouldn't be using the phone, i just ignored him and carried on to see if he would, or could, stop the pump. He didn't.

The station where i usually go has never given me any hassle for helmets or phone use, and i've used it for years.
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Don;t use any payment apps personally, I use various stations so for me there is no point. I just stick to my trusty credit card (or cash if required)