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Apparently there's over £80 million spent on fixing engines that have had the wrong fuel put into them, in the UK alone. Why not have different shaped nozzles for the pumps that match the 'socket' in the car? Circular for plain unleaded, Triangular for diesel, square for super unleaded etc. A simple
plastic/rubber adapter (or some compound that isn't melted by fuel)could be attached to the pump until all cars and pumps 'fit'.
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Baked - try getting a leaded petrol nozzle into an unleaded socket. |
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I say let them screw up. It's safe social Darwinism for drivers. I'd rather they wreck their engines than drive like an idiot. |
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I recommend reading "The Design of Everyday Things" for an interesting critique of many, ordinary, badly designed things. |
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No wiener shaped nozzles? |
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// No wiener shaped nozzles? // That's exactly what I was wondering in my mind when I first read the description. Bun on that wiener! |
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You would need an interim modifiable cap before it becomes a universal standard |
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What [Antegrity] said, obviously. |
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I'd rather have car and truck engines that use a universal fuel. One pump, one nozzle, one fuel....it makes such perfect, simple, sense. |
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Wiener shaped nozzles with orifice shaped gas caps. |
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//or some compound that isn't melted by
fuel// Dissolved. You mean 'dissolved'. I
don't know why, but it always annoys me
when people talk about sugar 'melting' in
water or plastic 'melting' in a solvent. The
two processes - melting and dissolving -
are only tangentially related. |
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