AssholeDesign

Shell gas stations in the US have been showing ads on the main machine for years, I've never seen them on the handle before. I hate it. I would expect them to break "accidentally" quite often.

Looks like the perfect application for one of those awful shipping labels that tear into a million pieces when you try to remove them

This company went bankrupt btw 💯 I can only hope whatever chain decided to try this shit got ostracized too.

Damn, thought only the US was crazy enough to have ads at the pump. This is a whole other level.

Vandalize it.

This is the first time I see someone actually use the gloves.

Have you considered vandalism?

Do your neighborhood a favor and bring a can of spray paint next time

We don't have them on the nozzles, but our pumps blare out the audio at hearing damage volumes.

And they wonder why that brand of station is avoided.

"Smarternozzle", but still no cell phones near a gasstation ...

angry unibomber noises

Can't do that in the US some crackhead would take it and sell it as an ipad

Worse in California.

I've been to multiple stations that have speakers on the pump and start blaring ads as soon as a credit card is inserted. Most of them have had "Mute" buttons on the pump, but the last one I went to did not and there was no way to silence the screaming advertisement. Will never go back.

There is no way these are rated as intrinsically safe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_safety

I've started leaving if the thing shows me an ad, I just put the nozzle back the second the ad plays, gets me enough fuel to get to a non compromised station.

The most fucked is full serve stations with the ads. While my windows are up so Im safe, the poor staff have to listen to an entire gas station worth of pumps blaring ads all day.

Regardless the gas price i'd go somewhere else. When they all have it, i start ducttaping them to make mypoint (i know, it would not mute audio)

To anybody thinking about vandalizing this thing:

DONT BREAK IT, not the screen, not the speakers and none of its electronics, you can create a shortcut, then a spark and YOU WILL KILL YOURSELF or the next person that uses the pump.

Paint and stickers are the way to go.

Next level : if you want it to fill your tank fast & ad free, you have to subscribe to a monthly card-club with Facial-Recognition, otherwise it keeps showing you ads & it fills your gas tank reeeeeally sloooOOOOoowly to make sure you watch at least 5 ads ^^

And gas is never cheaper because of it too

"smarternozzle" it could have shown the amount you're putting in your car and how much it would cost etc on there.

nope, ad.

That screen would get "accidentally" cracked if I had to use it.

Spray paint or hard to peal off stickers.

This is honestly kind of amazing in its evilness. Is it powered by a little turbine from the flow of petrol in the handle?

Who fucking comes up with this stuff? I mean they probably won't ever admit to it, but there are probably agencies, like EvilAds Inc. that spend weeks refining concepts such as this one.

Sounds like something that could motivate me to wear a ring with a diamond. "oops. Seems diamonds really are a hard material..."

Would be a shame if you dropped the nozzle on that cold hard pavement.

How I sleep knowing that with my new second hand EV, I never have to visit a gas station ever again:

!ZzzzZZzz!<