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.

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

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.

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

Have you considered vandalism?

Vandalize it.

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

Advertising should be illegal.

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.

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 ^^

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

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.

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

Here in the u.s they have insanely loud fucking screens that scream commercials at you.

Like volume to the max.

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

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

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

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.

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

There is no way these are rated as intrinsically safe

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

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

And gas is never cheaper because of it too

Very Cyberpunky. The bad parts of Cyberpunk that is.

Another win for electric cars, huh?

Spray paint or hard to peal off stickers.

Aaaaand of course it's called "Smarter nozzle" 🤮

It should me legal to smash that shit. You don't need to get money put of every possible human action, you mofos

What has station is this?

It's a smarter nozzle, see? The last one only pumped gas, this one let's you be tempted to consume while you pump gas. You wouldn't want a moment of free time in peace would you?

Does the ad need to be playing to dispense fuel or would these work just fine if they got accidentally dropped really hard?

That looks like something that won't last very long. I could be wrong, but my guess is that, being in the handles themselves, those screens are gonna get busted and they won't have made nearly enough from ad revenue to warrant replacing them on a regular basis. Here in the US we've got them built into the pumps so when you start pumping you get some loud ass commercials.