I've been going along the learning curve with Apple Pay, who has it, what state the the phone have to be in for it to work, learning not to press the glyph the

I've been going along the learning curve with Apple Pay, who has it, what state the the phone have to be in for it to work, learning not to press the glyph the UI presents me but instead press the actual fingerprint sensor. At some places they will be putting the terminal out towards my window so our hands are coming within a foot of each other. Once the terminal was afixed to a shelf within reach of the car window. The terminal has buttons and a card slot so it can't be behind glass for chipped credit cards, but I wonder if for NFC it could be.