TECHNONEWS * USA - Pay-by-touch fuel pumps introduced
Chicago,Ill,USA -Land Line Magazine -November 1, 2007: -- Shell has introduced some high-tech gas pumps at 10 stations in Chicago... Customers touch a small screen with their fingertips, and a biometric scanner clears them to pump gas if they’ve signed up for the service... After they pump, a credit card or bank account is automatically charged... One station owner told The Associated Press only 2 percent of her customers have signed up. She said she thinks the technology scares people from a privacy standpoint...
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