Touch me for gas

Apparently, there’s 10 Shell gas stations around the country with a new pay at the pump method. Now all you have to do is simply touch your finger on a keypad, in which all of your payment, personal, and credit card information will be retrieved from their database which your fingerprint is linked to. That’s so awesome that I can leave my credit card at home, and the only way for someone to steal it is to cut off my finger. =D

But seriously, if this gets further looked into, it could be a nice secure way to pay in the future. No credit card to carry around and possibly lose (which I’ve done at a KFC drive-thru) and identity theft at the store level would be much harder to accomplish. Of course, then you couldn’t give your credit card to someone else to pick something up for you because you’re too lazy to get out of bed to get it yourself at the store. I mean, it’s the people at the counters’ responsibility too to make sure that the person paying is really the person who owns the card, but they never check anyway.