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I don't disagree with the concept of letting people use a credit card. I'd just prefer people to enter it on their car's on-screen interface, rather than assumi

I don't disagree with the concept of letting people use a credit card. I'd just prefer people to enter it on their car's on-screen interface, rather than assuming physical card readers at every charging point. Leaving aside the annoyance factor (fumbling with cards and bending down to feed one into the curb each time I park), we're eventually going to have millions of charging points on random walls, curbs and lamposts. Based on my experience with today's chargers, the card readers are uniformly the first item to fail. And they never get fixed.

JohnFen 3y ago
> I'd just prefer people to enter it on their car's on-screen interface I know I'm more -- ahem -- cautious than most, but I'd be very nervous about entering any sensitive data like that into a car's data system. I'm not even comfortable connecting my phone to a car via bluetooth. It wouldn't necessarily be a showstopper for me, but I would certainly want to see others use such a system for a few years before I started to, to be reasonably confident that the car wasn't helpfully storing my payment details for me or passing them along to an entity not involved with the transaction.