On Monday, 26 September 2016 20:14:52 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Monday, 26 September 2016 12:55:20 UTC+1, dennis@home wrote:
On 26/09/2016 10:35, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 15:02:11 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article m,
dennis@home wrote:
Shell scrapped their pay at the pump as they make more money selling
Costas at £3 a cup, Volvic at £1.50 a litre and a sandwich at £3
than
selling fuel.


You can buy fuel in Shell garages using your phone instead of pay at
pump.

Whatever happened to the 'do not use your mobile phone in a filling
station', then? Do you drive off and pay later? ;-)

I know Mythbusters busted it a while back ... total bollox nowadays
(may
have been true in the past).


Mythbusters didn't test for the real reason mobiles are banned.

I suspect the biggest danger if from dropping your phone and the battery
subsequently blowing up and taking the fuel with it.
Some phones don't even need dropping!

I heard the real reason was because of the way the pumps calculated
how much petrol was pumped in that case the amount owing could
be altered by the older type mobile phones that had a higher signal
output rather than explosions.

Just goes to show how stupid it is to believe everything you hear.

The pumps of the era when mobile phones were originally banned
were mechanical, so that can't have been the reason for the ban.

They were not mechanical in the UK they mivh have been in your backward dustbowl.


They have/had simialar concerns wuth aircraft

Different equipment involved entirely.

Same problem electromagnetic interference.


although that was apparently more to do with
the wiring picking up extransious mobile signals

Wrong again.

right again.


which agian just wouldn;t happen with phones from this milenium.

Wrong, as always.

right again.