[obituary_latte]

In the article one of the attendants says "I hit stop on Pump 3 and nothing happens" so they are at least seeing the pump is on and running. Whatever is happening must be either locking the attendant out or is leaving the attendants machine in a bad state with the pump running switch "on" so to speak. I wonder if it's actually NFC. It'd be interesting to see what a Flipper Zero would come up with.

[yellow_postit]

I can imagine a lot of Flipper Zero owners heading out to explore pumps now.

[SoftTalker]

Agree, sounds like some kind of poorly-protected function has been discovered that's putting the pump into a "maintenance" or "test" mode where it will dispense fuel without a prepay having been completed.

[wyldfire]

> "Every time we push Pump Three stop, it wasn’t doing anything," he said. "We have to shut off the whole pumps - we have emergency stops."

Whew - sanity prevails! When I read the part about not stopping, I was a bit worried that the e-stop somehow was not a simple mechanical failsafe.