Sadly, I saw this on my local news channel earlier this week. Fark used to be where I got my news first. Ahh, the good ole days :)

Seriously though, there's no way I'd let that thing poke at my car to find the gas tank.

wittycommentwittycommentwittycomment Sarah Connor.

/Just getting the obvious out of the way, lazily.

So they don't let you smoke or talk on a cell phone, but I'm supposed to let some electric powered test run poke at my car?

Then again, it is fluent in over 6 million forms of language.

Neat, just like in Back to the Future!

/where's my flying car?

OH NOEESS!!!

Where will all those crackhead NJ gas jockeys get jobs NOWWW?????

dustman81 beat me.

/sucks at getting screen caps anyway

Mugato: dustman81 beat me.

/sucks at getting screen caps anyway

if it helps, dustman81 was beat by several days

Three words:
Old Glory Insurance
/for when the metal ones come for you.
//because they will.

Dead or alive, you're buying Super Premium Unleaded.

Oops, New Jersey and Oregon's (new window) unemployement rate are going to double.

DarthBrooks

OH NOEESS!!! Where will all those crackhead NJ gas jockeys get jobs NOWWW?????

Yeah. I don't think I'll be comfortable with this unless the robots have incomprehensible accents, listen to loud punjabi music, and give me $50 worth when I ask for 15.

/would rather go across the border to NY and pump my own
//if the price wasn't so much higher, that is

Heroic Poser: So they don't let you smoke or talk on a cell phone, but I'm supposed to let some electric powered test run poke at my car?

Then again, it is fluent in over 6 million forms of language.

This.

Anyway, Skynet is way overdue for becoming self-aware, and I don't want to give it any extra opportunities.

Sounds great, just so long as we keep them at 3/4th size. Just in case.

Did the inventors not even see Maximum Overdrive? YOU DON'T WANT TO GIVE THEM THE ABILITY TO REFUEL THEMSELVES.

Heaven help us.

They're back! In pog robot form!

Great. Another justification for raising gas prices.

Even Newer Hotness: People stealing $100,000 robots that dumbasses leave outside. I know I'd want one, just the part at the end with the sensor package and wrist would kick ass.

Filling gas is a Complex 14 Step Process. Just ask eHow.

Because gas stations will buy $100,000 robots that will break down and be expensive to maintain so that they have to just to pump gas when people will do it for free...

Worst. Invention. Ever.

rule #34:

gas station robots, in MY vagina?

DP at the BP

Oznog: Filling gas is a Complex 14 Step Process. Just ask eHow.

Wow. Just wow.

Although I do love the "credit cards and loans" part.

if it scratches the paint on my car, there will be real trouble

/I'm just saying

farkwell: rule #34:

gas station robots, in MY vagina?

DP at the BP

/thread

I wonder if Mexican robots will compete for jobs?

Go to quickie mart. buy Cheetos, Twinkies, Red Bull & cigs.

aactually I remember this from at least 5 years ago.

Herbert Kornfeld's L.O.D.: Because gas stations will buy $100,000 robots that will break down and be expensive to maintain so that they have to just to pump gas when people will do it for free...

pretty sure that is not how it works

bob4pres: Oops, New Jersey and Oregon's (new window) unemployement rate are going to double.

Subby must never have visited either. Just TRY to pump your own gas in OR and people their farking mind it seems. Reminds me of the WA/OR across-the-river rub that stated "we'll take you more seriously when you learn to pump your own damn gas".

tonesskin: Great. Another justification for raising gas pricesfinding an alternative.
/ftfy

The world will be brought to it's knees by the...

I remember seing this in popular science at least 10 years ago.

I go to the robot gas station using Johnny Cab!

Just checking to make sure the BTTF2 reference had been made.

Carry on.

The Japanese are waaaay ahead of us in robot technology. They are using it for good instead of laziness.

Not a Rick Roll (pops)

How long before someone steps between the car and the robot and gets 10 gallons of unleaded injected into their leg?

Just putting gas in a tank isn't full service.

This is great news(NOT) I already have hell gassing my truck up because of the vapor recovery systems(it's about like striking a FOX viewing position). Now I get to let a robot do it, fail because of the vapor recov system, then let Julio come over and do it. Maco is going to make some serious cash off of this.

tonesskin: I wonder if Mexican robots will compete for jobs?

So long as they don't congregate outside Home Depot every morning, rusting & staining the ground they stand on, I'll be ambivalent.

rajuncajun1369: pretty sure that is not how it works

That's how it works in every state that doesn't have ridiculous laws preventing normal people from pumping gas.

What happens in the retarded states which legislate such things is none of my concern, so long as I don't pay for your idiocy (of course).

dlpriest: Did the inventors not even see Maximum Overdrive? YOU DON'T WANT TO GIVE THEM THE ABILITY TO REFUEL THEMSELVES.

Heaven help us.

Buwahahah

At least in Oregon, the law still forces the gas station attendant to pump your gas. Just don't ask him to "do" your windshield, though. That's only asking for trouble.

Megain: Mugato: dustman81 beat me.

/sucks at getting screen caps anyway

if it helps, dustman81 was beat by several days (new window)

Holy crap, credit where credit is due...
I'd like to thank all of the little people who made this possible: Doc, Marty, and those crazy libyans, bif, god, my wife, Robert Zemeckis and Megain(TF).

And how does it handle locking gas caps?

Solty Dog: The Japanese are waaaay ahead of us in robot technology. They are using it for good instead of laziness.

fembot
I'd hit it

Uh, Full Service includes checking the oil, cleaning the windows and kicking the stem on the tire and telling the guy he has a slow leak in his tire. The service manager will then replace the stem, clean the tire and charge him for a matching used tire he just 'happens to have'.

Worked in a full serve for about two months. Off of I-57 in the middle of nowhere Illinois. Never did the above but was suppose to encourage work for the bubba drunks in the back.

They've been predicting these are right around the corner for 20 years now. I'll believe it just as soon as I see it refuel my flying car while I listen to Chinese Democracy as I think of getting home to play Duke Nukem Forever.

I've considered 'on the road' fueling for trucks and such. Kind of an 'in flight' refuelling for the road.