Comment on How come when paying cash for gas, it is not like a coke machine where you can insert your money? And when it hits that limit it clicks off?

Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Interesting. What if you put a fake plate on your car?

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  • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Then it wouldn’t work? It unlocks the pump if it recognises your plate in its system. If they are smart they could also detect make and model or also geo reference your location via the app.

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    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean a fake plate that resembles a real one that someone else has registered.

      People are probably more honest in NZ. In the US people are regularly screwed over all the time (usually by companies just like this) so we’re primed to screw over others at every opportunity.

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      • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I think the uptake is low enough you would have to stalk a fuel station and try and watch for someone using it and not using the other method of paying from the app. But if the fuel station is using number plate recognition, plus colour and make recognition, which is easy with machine vision these days. You would have to wait until someone with the same model as you comes through.

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• southernbrewer@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In NZ, never heard of this. I don’t really consume marketing material though. What stations do this / what app?

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  • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s the Pay By Plate thing from Z.

    www.z.co.nz/z-app/pay-with-z-app

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• content_educator_94@thelemmy.club ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That actually sounds really nice I love that idea

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