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Recently I ran into a new one. The pump had a screen, but instead of a tiny screen surrounded by buttons (one of which can be used to mute the video), it was a giant screen with no buttons. Ergo no mute button. I tried clicking around the screen but nothing worked. There’s gotta be a pattern though.
I hate those ones, last one I saw was at a full serve station. Not even fuel select buttons just touch screen for all of it.
Gas pumps get beat up. A touch screen will not suffer that level of abuse for long...
I think they use a touch layer overtop the actual screen so if it gets fucked they can swap it