Originally Posted by
Hawaiian717
The problem is you want to force your preferences on everyone by either banning or making things more hassle for other people if they have different preferences. You want contactless-only pumps and anyone who doesn't have or want to use contactless will be forced to go inside. Not only is it more hassle for them, but it slows down everyone else if there's a line since their car is sitting at a pump while the person goes inside and possibly waiting in line there too. What would be better is contactless along with a chip/swipe reader, so that people who don't have or don't want to use contactless can still pay at the pump. Sure, there's more risk of skimming, but that's part of the tradeoff they make when they chose to use chip or swipe instead of contactless.
Everything regarding progress in this country is more of a hassle at first.... Even chip was.
People don't understand the security risks between contactless and physical chip/magnetic stripe.
The contactless transition shouldn't be that big of an issue. I'm not the problem in this situation, the average American is, and this wouldn't be a problem in most countries. Banks could easily send cards out, and there are these things called Android, Samsung, and Apple Pay which 90% > of people have these phones.
Forced change is the only way to adopt contactless. Maybe if Americans were forced to change more with technology, we wouldn't be a decade behind everyone else. American's are like the person afraid to bungee jump while everyone else already has.