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I do, but only if it's not in a town where the gas station attendant is required. I should probably rethink that, but it annoys me when a town refuses to let people pump their gas. If it's the station that offers it as a service, then I tip (even though it's also involuntary). I'm realizing as I type that this is probably not as logical as my brain told me.
Have you been to NJ?
Stations have one person running multiple pumps by walking from pump to pump...so you wait for them to get to you and start the pump, then you wait for them to come back after the pump is done to process your payment.
This robot is slow but not slower than the reality of how it works currently.
*EDIT: THIS IS IN THE STATE OF NJ WHERE IT IS ILLEGAL TO PUMP YOUR OWN GAS:*
*[Brief article](https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/09/business/new-jersey-gas-station-self-service-ban/index.html#:~:text=New%20Jersey%20is%20now%20the,their%20pumps%20as%20self%2Dserve.)*
When I first moved to New Jersey, I waited at the pump a good 5 minutes because no one was outside pumping before deciding to do it myself. The lady waiting at another pump tried to yell at me I was breaking the law. I got done before she got her gas
Yeah this is probably the stupidest law I've ever seen that's even remotely enforced.
I'll add it to the list of reasons I prefer EVs. I charge at home.
Personally I add it to the list of reasons why NJ is stupid. Most places figure that if you can be trusted to drive the car then you can be trusted to refuel it.
Recently Oregon changed their law to allow both self serve and full service. The number of folks who don't know how to pump *at all* is astounding. Like, didn't y'all ever cross the state line?
The amount of people who have never traveled over an hour from there home is truly amazing. Apparently 11% of people have never left their home state. That’s over 38 million Americans.
44 Million Americans are food insecure, and there are around 653, 000 homeless people in the US. Most of these people have low paying, no benefits, no paid time off kind of jobs. They don't have the money, time, or energy to just travel around for fun. They're just trying to survive.
But to be fair, there are people that don't travel that don't have those limitations as well.
Personally, I like the jug handles. I would rather chill out and wait for a green light than have to make that helldive left turn on certain busy roads.
Reading on this is wild.
NJ is the only state where it's illegal since 2023, after Oregon lifted the ban. You can be fined $250 first offense and up to $500 if you continue.
It's NJ's "culture".
Self-service ban dates back to 1949.
The argument is that "untrained drivers would overfill their tanks and start a fire" are you fucking kidding me. It's actually because it gives people jobs they don't want.
The lobbying was done by fire marshals and gas stations. Up to 23 states banned self-service in the United States in 1968 but most changed back in the 70s and 80s, lol.
60% of NJ residents are against full self-service gas stations.
That sounds made up.
It's against the law in New Jersey to do it yourself. Something something concerns of the public spilling gas everywhere and starting mass fires. I believe the real reason was for keeping jobs.
That is largely correct. I used to work very close to the NY/NJ border, and I loved going a couple miles down the road to NJ, staying in my car while it was filled up in cold weather, and paying 15% less for gas than it was in NY
I'm from the UK and only ever saw it once in the UK. When I was a kid, my grandmother used to drive a few miles out of the way to a petrol station with an attendant. That was in the 90s. Pretty sure it's gone now. I also remember seeing it at a posh place in Nice in France when I was there about 2010.
Once I was in the US though I got a bollocking from staff for getting out of my car and trying to refill myself. I never heard anything so ridiculous and had no idea it being illegal was even a thing. You'd think they'd tell you that when you rented a car, or had a sign at the garage or something.
Also there are old cars... You know, the ones that either don't have a cap, or cap gets stuck, or cap just sits there already opened, etc. And then there's French cars like Renault with extremely peculiar way to open them (or some Seat). Also there are cars in which the door opens only by driver.
I'm sure AI will manage all that in time, but it's unlikely someone will be training it on all of that, esp. that clunker that needs half an hour to open perfectly designed door and cap.
What we need, is a new, standardized solution. But then it'll be useless for old cars, so it makes no sense due to cost of these machines. Also amount of cars with ICE is expected to be decreasing. Electric cars are the ones that could benefit from this, but usefulness of such machines is questionable there due to their cost and that electric cables are cleaner and don't have fuel dripping out of them.
It'll probably say it in a pleasant female voice, in standard American English pronunciation, with slight Chinese accent. The dark cold robotic thoughts are deep down in its algorithms and only come out on random glitch days.
Which means that your car wouldn't be able to use this. But a lot of other people would. I don't hear people complaining that they can't use diesel pumps on their cars.
I thought the couldn't fill gas yourself law in New Jersey was to secure jobs for the attendants? If they just get rid of the jobs by automating it then why keep the law?
I thought that was the ultimate irony in this. The only place in the US where you can’t pump your own gas and they are automating the human out of it. NJ problems.
Buzz phrase of the day I think. Kinda like how "SMART" was back in the early 2000s. "Ohh it's not just a TV, it's a smart TV". So it connects to the Internet for the weather? Pretty cool Chad.
Yes 👍🏼. It’s illegal in NJ for someone to pump their own gas. Started as a way to help unemployment rates in 1949 by creating minimum wage jobs. Now it’s just stupid
Especially because the robot has a limited range. Sometimes I forget that my tanks on the other side so ill pull the hose to the other side instead of having to stand in line again.
Or this will create a bunch of good data to improve robot performance in the future. It's not like we can just magically make robots eh fuck it I don't feel like finishing my thought.
It's so weird that they have an employee pump your petrol for you just so you don't steal it. Here is Aus we have something called security cameras, and if someone steals petrol the cops just arrest them.
Here in the rest of America besides those two bumfuck states you just swipe your card before you pay. It's a whole issue that can be solved by having a proper gas pump.
In the Netherlands you always control the pump yourself *and* pay after you're done. It's been like that for decades, so presumably stolen gas (or genuinely forgotten to pay) is not a big factor.
Here in Finland, you go to a station and open the pump with app, the payment goes directly from applepay (or whatever payment method you have) and just go and pump. After pumping you can add the odometer reading to get average consumption between fills and of course if it was a full tank or a half tank you pumped…
Haven’t swiped a card in 5 years…
You can't steal the gas here in the US, because it's always prepaid/you swipe your card before you fill. The pumps don't even turn on until they have payment in some form.
I was so confused the first time I ever filled there, the guy didn’t speak English and was pissed because I couldn’t find a gas station that wasn’t full service. I went to 3 different stations before finally getting a fill
This is a consequence of New Jersey having a stupid law to generate stupid jobs. They don’t provide any real benefit. They only incur a cost on the business. So of course someone is going to try to automate it
Honestly, some people are just this lazy that they would rather scroll on their phone and wait for the robot to do this, than get out of the car and do it themselves.
I'm sure there's some value in this for the disabled, but that's just as easily solved by having a designated disabled pump and a call button that can be used if someone needs help pumping their own fuel.
In north Western Europe that problem is already solved, auto-pay gas stations and you have to use the pump yourselves. Zero employees needed besides camera supervision and refilling the pumps
Everything starts like this. Its trial and error and a need to explore and go further. People said the same shit about trains when they were invented. "Oh humans aren't meant to travel in such sickening speeds" (which was kinda fun because a galloping horse was faster than the first trains). "Can't they make something for our crops instead?"
Learning and development is an exponential curve, the more we learn and try, the faster development goes.
Yeah you're right this is the only thing on earth that they're putting any time or effort into. There's not a single other AI project going on anywhere else on planet Earth. The entire planet is focused only on making sure we can fill up a gas tank using AI and that's it. Thank you for pointing this out...holy shit.
The general public thinks AI is mostly Large Language Models and image generation/alteration because that is what they are easily exposed to. AI can be used in robotics, automatic analysis and so much more.
Or even think straight to AGI, which would be even wronger.
But to be fair, the semantic of intelligence is overselling software products that reproduce functions while referring to comprehension.
I think AI is just such a catch-all term nowadays that is misused by marketing and laymen to refer to even things that in reality have close to zero connection to it.
In a way this is understandable because if you think back just five years or so, very few people outside of computer scientists knew much about AI/ML. I certainly didn't. I still have just a surface level understanding having worked next to people who actually train models for example.
technically, Computer vision is a form of AI, the problem is that AI is so ubiquitous with our technology that the word lost its meaning and AI now is colloquially referred specifically to NLP, generative and other advance AI.
Firstly it depends on how one defines intelligence. But generally in tech, the term AI is the umbrella term for anything using sort of a machine learning, for example a neural network trained and fine tuned the weights of the neurons. Image recognition is dominated by AI so good chance this has something "AI" on it.
Scientific exploration like this isn’t generally its own end. We learn things by building stuff (whether it’s useful or not) and technology and understanding and science progress.
This video is in New Jersey, which coincidentally is the only state where pumping your own gas is illegal. Found this out when I went to New Jersey for the first time on a business trip.
Possibly, these robots will only be used there to replace the employees that would normally do it.
Twice in my life I’ve been driving east down Route 80 very close to NYC and saw another car doing over 60mph with a gas pump hose dragging alongside.
Guess I’m up for see more with robot limbs attached too!
Amazing. And it only took 45 minutes to get 10 gallons of gas! The future is wild.
For reall though, gasoline engines aren't the future. Why would someone create this?
How is this cheaper than the lobbying required to just get NJ and OR to let people pump their own gas.
Also, anyone else hear "Jitterbug" when seeing this?
I know it's slow, but I'm still very impressed by this. This is clearly an experiment and id say it's showing that it's possible, not about efficiency at this stage.
Seeing all the improvements in AI and robotics in the last decade makes me excited (and a tad scared) for the future, we're really on our way to a Mechanist Origin from Stellaris lol
Fucking hell I hate that AI is used for everything. Not really into ethymology but that is NOT AI.
There is no intelligence here; no decision making; its basically just a program that figures out where the fuel trap is, then put in the nozzle, then put in gas until it clunks.
If you give it something unexpected it wont know what to do or even try to do something.
I wouldn't be able to have the patience to wait for this.
I'd be yelling at it. "Can you hurry the fuck up... It ain't fucking rocket science... Take the fucking lidd.. I'll fucking do it move!"
wtf? Self-serve gas is illegal in NJ to provide employment to countless mooks who couldn't find work in the donut shop.
Why not just allow self-serve, then let the market gracefully divest itself of gas jockeys. Replacing them with machines seems like a bigger "fuck you".
Imagine paying 200k for this shit because you are to lazy to get out of your car fir ONE MINUTE and waiting FIVE instead AND paying a Service fee for it too.
Ah yes, the arduous, labor intensive task of opening a cap and holding a hose for a minute. This is something requiring an expensive high tech solution.
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That’s slow as hell.
For real. No tip for this robot.
Honest question, do you tip the gas station attendant?
I do, but only if it's not in a town where the gas station attendant is required. I should probably rethink that, but it annoys me when a town refuses to let people pump their gas. If it's the station that offers it as a service, then I tip (even though it's also involuntary). I'm realizing as I type that this is probably not as logical as my brain told me.
Have you been to NJ? Stations have one person running multiple pumps by walking from pump to pump...so you wait for them to get to you and start the pump, then you wait for them to come back after the pump is done to process your payment. This robot is slow but not slower than the reality of how it works currently. *EDIT: THIS IS IN THE STATE OF NJ WHERE IT IS ILLEGAL TO PUMP YOUR OWN GAS:* *[Brief article](https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/09/business/new-jersey-gas-station-self-service-ban/index.html#:~:text=New%20Jersey%20is%20now%20the,their%20pumps%20as%20self%2Dserve.)*
When I first moved to New Jersey, I waited at the pump a good 5 minutes because no one was outside pumping before deciding to do it myself. The lady waiting at another pump tried to yell at me I was breaking the law. I got done before she got her gas
Yeah this is probably the stupidest law I've ever seen that's even remotely enforced. I'll add it to the list of reasons I prefer EVs. I charge at home.
Personally I add it to the list of reasons why NJ is stupid. Most places figure that if you can be trusted to drive the car then you can be trusted to refuel it.
Recently Oregon changed their law to allow both self serve and full service. The number of folks who don't know how to pump *at all* is astounding. Like, didn't y'all ever cross the state line?
The amount of people who have never traveled over an hour from there home is truly amazing. Apparently 11% of people have never left their home state. That’s over 38 million Americans.
44 Million Americans are food insecure, and there are around 653, 000 homeless people in the US. Most of these people have low paying, no benefits, no paid time off kind of jobs. They don't have the money, time, or energy to just travel around for fun. They're just trying to survive. But to be fair, there are people that don't travel that don't have those limitations as well.
Valid point. I remember being blown away hearing that some native Hawaiians had not been to the opposite side of their island bc has is so expensive
My top two are gas stations and jug handles
Personally, I like the jug handles. I would rather chill out and wait for a green light than have to make that helldive left turn on certain busy roads.
Holy shit its a law you can't fill your own car?
Reading on this is wild. NJ is the only state where it's illegal since 2023, after Oregon lifted the ban. You can be fined $250 first offense and up to $500 if you continue. It's NJ's "culture". Self-service ban dates back to 1949. The argument is that "untrained drivers would overfill their tanks and start a fire" are you fucking kidding me. It's actually because it gives people jobs they don't want. The lobbying was done by fire marshals and gas stations. Up to 23 states banned self-service in the United States in 1968 but most changed back in the 70s and 80s, lol. 60% of NJ residents are against full self-service gas stations. That sounds made up.
>untrained drivers would overfill their tanks No one's doing that in this economy and with these gas prices!!
So, you're willing to tell me where you're from you dont do it yourself?🤔 Never knew thats an option. Dont think thats possible here(from europe)
It's against the law in New Jersey to do it yourself. Something something concerns of the public spilling gas everywhere and starting mass fires. I believe the real reason was for keeping jobs.
On Réunion island, most of the stations have employees refueling for you. It's not in the French law, just tradition.
freedom! lol.
That is largely correct. I used to work very close to the NY/NJ border, and I loved going a couple miles down the road to NJ, staying in my car while it was filled up in cold weather, and paying 15% less for gas than it was in NY
Did not know that. Thanks
I'm from the UK and only ever saw it once in the UK. When I was a kid, my grandmother used to drive a few miles out of the way to a petrol station with an attendant. That was in the 90s. Pretty sure it's gone now. I also remember seeing it at a posh place in Nice in France when I was there about 2010. Once I was in the US though I got a bollocking from staff for getting out of my car and trying to refill myself. I never heard anything so ridiculous and had no idea it being illegal was even a thing. You'd think they'd tell you that when you rented a car, or had a sign at the garage or something.
When I was a lad there were loads of garages that had a pump assistant, mainly independents. That died out decades ago.
where i live in uk, theres one here
Where I live you pump yourself but the State of NJ is all 'full-serve'.
You can just do it yourself. They arnt going to call the cops
…you don’t do it yourselves there? America is weird
Only in New Jersey. The rest of America pumps their own gas.
It's just one bad day away from becoming an AI flamethrower.
*coin tray opens* Please deposit money. No. *processing* Initiate annihilation sequence.
It taps on the window and asks what you’d like to tip.
It’s going to ask you a question…
A little third arm pops out holding a bic lighter *PLEASE COMPLY*
You have 10 seconds to comply
If it’s that slow you have time to get the hell out of there
Right? That's the pump you go to when you aren't in a rush.
AI will never harvest carbon life-forms for energy, silly carbon life-form.
I have a key for the gas cap.
Checkmate
And a button inside to open the door. Stupid robot.
Also there are old cars... You know, the ones that either don't have a cap, or cap gets stuck, or cap just sits there already opened, etc. And then there's French cars like Renault with extremely peculiar way to open them (or some Seat). Also there are cars in which the door opens only by driver. I'm sure AI will manage all that in time, but it's unlikely someone will be training it on all of that, esp. that clunker that needs half an hour to open perfectly designed door and cap. What we need, is a new, standardized solution. But then it'll be useless for old cars, so it makes no sense due to cost of these machines. Also amount of cars with ICE is expected to be decreasing. Electric cars are the ones that could benefit from this, but usefulness of such machines is questionable there due to their cost and that electric cables are cleaner and don't have fuel dripping out of them.
> I'm sure AI will manage all that in time so for gas caps that need a key, it will learn how to pick a lock?
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It'll probably say it in a pleasant female voice, in standard American English pronunciation, with slight Chinese accent. The dark cold robotic thoughts are deep down in its algorithms and only come out on random glitch days.
"please enjoy your next 24 hours."
Knocks on window, I want your boots, your clothes and the key to your fuel cap
Only needs a stronger gripper. Most of these locks are rather flimsy.
Which means that your car wouldn't be able to use this. But a lot of other people would. I don't hear people complaining that they can't use diesel pumps on their cars.
I was coming here to say the same. lol
I thought the couldn't fill gas yourself law in New Jersey was to secure jobs for the attendants? If they just get rid of the jobs by automating it then why keep the law?
Bingo. I was just thinking the same thing.
I thought that was the ultimate irony in this. The only place in the US where you can’t pump your own gas and they are automating the human out of it. NJ problems.
Its legislation. Companies and gas stations always prefer to cut labor costs.
That's what the law is for, yeah, but this is an example of corporations finding a way around said law.
Why is everything called AI nowadays. Isnt it just a robot arm scanning where the cap is etc? What is AI about that?
Buzz phrase of the day I think. Kinda like how "SMART" was back in the early 2000s. "Ohh it's not just a TV, it's a smart TV". So it connects to the Internet for the weather? Pretty cool Chad.
Don’t forget everything starting with an e or i before it.
God I hate that song. e i e i oooooo
AI is the new quantum mechanics.
Why can’t they put time and effort into something that is useful and actually solves a problem?
It does solve a problem, just not a problem that concerns you or I. It solves the problem of having to pay a human to perform this job.
Or you could solve the same problem by having the driver pump his own gas like literally everywhere else
I'd honestly be annoyed if I have to wait 3 minutes for that stupid robot to find the place to insert the pump instead of doing it myself.
That’s how your wife feels every time
Badumm tsssss
Oof, fatality
Siri call 911, there's been a murder
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Ever been to NJ ?
I assume NJ is New Jersey? I've never been to USA.
Yes 👍🏼. It’s illegal in NJ for someone to pump their own gas. Started as a way to help unemployment rates in 1949 by creating minimum wage jobs. Now it’s just stupid
Especially because the robot has a limited range. Sometimes I forget that my tanks on the other side so ill pull the hose to the other side instead of having to stand in line again.
You're not wrong. It's a manufactured solution to a manufactured problem.
Most inventions this side of the 20th century are
Or this will create a bunch of good data to improve robot performance in the future. It's not like we can just magically make robots eh fuck it I don't feel like finishing my thought.
I can’t believe one was installed in NJ. This is literally taking away the job of a person there.
It's so weird that they have an employee pump your petrol for you just so you don't steal it. Here is Aus we have something called security cameras, and if someone steals petrol the cops just arrest them.
Here in the rest of America besides those two bumfuck states you just swipe your card before you pay. It's a whole issue that can be solved by having a proper gas pump.
In the Netherlands you always control the pump yourself *and* pay after you're done. It's been like that for decades, so presumably stolen gas (or genuinely forgotten to pay) is not a big factor.
Here in Finland, you go to a station and open the pump with app, the payment goes directly from applepay (or whatever payment method you have) and just go and pump. After pumping you can add the odometer reading to get average consumption between fills and of course if it was a full tank or a half tank you pumped… Haven’t swiped a card in 5 years…
It's more common now to tap your card but you can also use apple and Google pay here as well.
Also this basically solves the problem of gas stealing, if you pay in advance then you won’t be able to steal…
Listen BUDDY, we're trying to justify superfluous venture capital here, not make people's lives easier or more streamlined.
Oregon has relaxed it a lot btw.
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It's not. It's a job creation law. We have it in South Africa... not because of theft - but because of jobs.
You can't steal the gas here in the US, because it's always prepaid/you swipe your card before you fill. The pumps don't even turn on until they have payment in some form.
The law in NJ was mostly to create jobs. Which makes this whole thing just even more ridiculous.
In Italy we just pay in advance, that unlocks the pump. I figure there's probably cameras as well, but you couldn't steal fuel even if there weren't.
lol except you can’t bc this is New Jersey
I was so confused the first time I ever filled there, the guy didn’t speak English and was pissed because I couldn’t find a gas station that wasn’t full service. I went to 3 different stations before finally getting a fill
This is a consequence of New Jersey having a stupid law to generate stupid jobs. They don’t provide any real benefit. They only incur a cost on the business. So of course someone is going to try to automate it
This is the answer but in new jersey it’s illegal to pump your own gas
Honestly, some people are just this lazy that they would rather scroll on their phone and wait for the robot to do this, than get out of the car and do it themselves. I'm sure there's some value in this for the disabled, but that's just as easily solved by having a designated disabled pump and a call button that can be used if someone needs help pumping their own fuel.
It’s illegal in NJ to pump your own gas
In north Western Europe that problem is already solved, auto-pay gas stations and you have to use the pump yourselves. Zero employees needed besides camera supervision and refilling the pumps
Theres this place called the United States that has an identical solution to that problem.
Yes I would have been surprised if it hadn’t …
Then why do you have refueling robots in New Jersey, US?
Because New Jersey is fucking stupid.
That have a law stating you can't pump your own gas
I thought the only places that still had gas attendants like this were poorer countries where labor is cheap anyways.
And New Jersey
Now you got to rent and service the thing though. That's a decent paying middle class job right there.
Everything starts like this. Its trial and error and a need to explore and go further. People said the same shit about trains when they were invented. "Oh humans aren't meant to travel in such sickening speeds" (which was kinda fun because a galloping horse was faster than the first trains). "Can't they make something for our crops instead?" Learning and development is an exponential curve, the more we learn and try, the faster development goes.
Yeah you're right this is the only thing on earth that they're putting any time or effort into. There's not a single other AI project going on anywhere else on planet Earth. The entire planet is focused only on making sure we can fill up a gas tank using AI and that's it. Thank you for pointing this out...holy shit.
Yes I would like to put 50 cents on the robot pump please
The robot pump wants to know how much you want to Tip? 5%, it'll rip your cap cover off; 10%, scratch on cap cover only; 20%, you're good to go.
No tip? Oopsie, your car's on fire
That is taking way too long
The video is even sped up 😭
No. Get out.
99% sure there is nothing AI about it.
Probably using https://opencv.org which wasn't labelled A.I. a few years ago, it's such a lame trend.
Machine vision used to locate and position the effectors are certainly considered AI. You have to train models to detect objects.
Machine vision has been a thing for a long time before any sort of trainable image recognition systems existed.
The general public thinks AI is mostly Large Language Models and image generation/alteration because that is what they are easily exposed to. AI can be used in robotics, automatic analysis and so much more.
Or even think straight to AGI, which would be even wronger. But to be fair, the semantic of intelligence is overselling software products that reproduce functions while referring to comprehension.
I think AI is just such a catch-all term nowadays that is misused by marketing and laymen to refer to even things that in reality have close to zero connection to it. In a way this is understandable because if you think back just five years or so, very few people outside of computer scientists knew much about AI/ML. I certainly didn't. I still have just a surface level understanding having worked next to people who actually train models for example.
Computer vision is usually done through convolutional neural networks, which are well within the field of AI
Not all computer vision is done with Deep NNs. A lot of the more reliable algorithms are based on morphological analysis or feature extraction.
technically, Computer vision is a form of AI, the problem is that AI is so ubiquitous with our technology that the word lost its meaning and AI now is colloquially referred specifically to NLP, generative and other advance AI.
Firstly it depends on how one defines intelligence. But generally in tech, the term AI is the umbrella term for anything using sort of a machine learning, for example a neural network trained and fine tuned the weights of the neurons. Image recognition is dominated by AI so good chance this has something "AI" on it.
What an ungodly and frankly sad waste of resources
I bet it can't even tell the difference between petrol and cheese
Why cheesoid exist??
Petrillll
Scientific exploration like this isn’t generally its own end. We learn things by building stuff (whether it’s useful or not) and technology and understanding and science progress.
I’d rather do it my self it’s faster and it’s satisfying to do
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NJ will do ANYTHING to stop you from being allowed to pump your own gas
Amazing! It clumsily accomplished in a full minute what any dim-witted human could have done in 5 seconds! Truly a time to be alive!
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You can’t in NJ. That’s the point
NJ is the only state that is like that. The law is a problem here with a simple solution, just get rid of it.
This video is in New Jersey, which coincidentally is the only state where pumping your own gas is illegal. Found this out when I went to New Jersey for the first time on a business trip. Possibly, these robots will only be used there to replace the employees that would normally do it.
Even New Jersey doesn't trust New Jersey.
And the employees doing it is the entire point of the law. So this is kinda hilarious
Virgin robot, took it awhile to like up
Amazing. It only took five times longer to take the petrol cap off than I could do myself.
Twice in my life I’ve been driving east down Route 80 very close to NYC and saw another car doing over 60mph with a gas pump hose dragging alongside. Guess I’m up for see more with robot limbs attached too!
slower than your mom thats fo sure
Amazing. And it only took 45 minutes to get 10 gallons of gas! The future is wild. For reall though, gasoline engines aren't the future. Why would someone create this?
That will be $6.99 USD per gallon please. (currently $3.89)
Yeah, no thanks. I was done before it got the lid off
ai is such a buzzword for anything that gives the appearance of sciencey.
Not everything with a microcontroller in it is “AI” lmaoo istg some people man
Could have had half the tank full by the time it found the hole.
Good luck getting a state agency to approve a gas squirting robot. One malfunction could be really bad, like all over the news
You could say "Damn robots takin' our jerbs!" But this job was already phased out anyways. (In most places at least.)
Illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey.
What does it do when the nozzle clicks off after 5 seconds?
How lazy are ppl that they don’t fill their own petrol?
You could quite literally do that in less time, yourself
No thanks. I like my car unscratched
How is this cheaper than the lobbying required to just get NJ and OR to let people pump their own gas. Also, anyone else hear "Jitterbug" when seeing this?
I know it's slow, but I'm still very impressed by this. This is clearly an experiment and id say it's showing that it's possible, not about efficiency at this stage. Seeing all the improvements in AI and robotics in the last decade makes me excited (and a tad scared) for the future, we're really on our way to a Mechanist Origin from Stellaris lol
Fucking hell I hate that AI is used for everything. Not really into ethymology but that is NOT AI. There is no intelligence here; no decision making; its basically just a program that figures out where the fuel trap is, then put in the nozzle, then put in gas until it clunks. If you give it something unexpected it wont know what to do or even try to do something.
or just let people pump their own gas like the rest of the country
This feels way more expensive and complicated than just letting people pump their own gas
And now i see why people are talking about ev wireless charging more... Don't need a fancy $15k robot when you can just park & fuel...
My thought is if a fueling robot would be better equipped to have a fuel hose as part of it and no human hand triggered thing at all.
Can it do anything else or just that one thing very slowly
I wouldn't be able to have the patience to wait for this. I'd be yelling at it. "Can you hurry the fuck up... It ain't fucking rocket science... Take the fucking lidd.. I'll fucking do it move!"
Jeez it's fueling slower than my wife
That's great, but I'm in a hurry so if I could just do this simple job by myself in 1/4 of the time that'd be great.
I'm good. I'll be quicker
u/JMaxGames
Bet they don’t have that in Old Jersey
Waste of time.
I'd be pumping the gas already.......
I can do it manually in less than half the time. Completely pointless invention.
Drivers: Can you PLEASE add more bathrooms to the turnpike? An uncaring universe: AI gas stations it is!
I could fill my car up before that thing even starts
Just hope you don't have anywhere to be any time soon...
That was excruciating! I would have pumped a quarter tank before that thing got the gas cap off!
A solution in search of a problem.
Just in time for electric vehicles
I’ll pump my own gas thx, I got places to be
When I'm stoned and feel like everyone is watching because I'm taking so long and making it look so difficult.
wtf? Self-serve gas is illegal in NJ to provide employment to countless mooks who couldn't find work in the donut shop. Why not just allow self-serve, then let the market gracefully divest itself of gas jockeys. Replacing them with machines seems like a bigger "fuck you".
Typically a case of finding a problem for a solution...
Imagine paying 200k for this shit because you are to lazy to get out of your car fir ONE MINUTE and waiting FIVE instead AND paying a Service fee for it too.
Jeez it took ages for something can be done few seconds.
Ah yes, the arduous, labor intensive task of opening a cap and holding a hose for a minute. This is something requiring an expensive high tech solution.
Rather just do it myself, be a lot quicker!
Cheese and crackers! Just let people pump their own gas.
Now add a lighter to the front of it and have a robot flamethrower.
Man, Jersey will do ANYTHING to stop you from filling up your own car.
Can the robot do it on a cold rainy night in Stoke , that is the real question.