Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years

Re:Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years by jfengel on Monday June 26, 2023 @04:31PM (#36485425)

I wonder how much any of those "driving essentials" could matter at this point. Tire pressure sensors are mandatory. Oil pressure sensors won't tell you until it's too late, but cars are now built better and are no longer assume to leak oil after a few tens of thousands of miles.

It might be nice to have somebody wash the windows and check the washer fluid level, but it's hardly essential.

We don't even need them to run the credit cards any more. It's so weird going to a station in New Jersey, handing the attendant your card, and having them slide it right on the pump, just as you would. (And yeah, I've avoided filling up in New Jersey for the same reason: it takes longer.)

Maybe this served a goal at some point, but technology seems to have vaporized whatever it could have ever served.

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Re:Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years by nickvanw on Monday June 26, 2023 @05:08PM (#36485874)

I don't even have a dipstick in my car at this point - the computer will warn you when the oil level is low, otherwise you're to assume it's fine. It also warns me when the windshield wiper fluid reservoir is low so that I can fill it before running out.

Not that gas stations in Oregon were doing any of this anyway, they were pumping gas and nothing else.

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Re:Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years by jfengel on Monday June 26, 2023 @05:31PM (#36486151)

Oh, man. I've never even looked for the dipstick on my (25,000 mile old) car.

I used to change the oil on my cars myself. I've never even tried on my newest car.

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Re:Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years by deathanatos on Monday June 26, 2023 @11:17PM (#36488484)

My car has both the in-cab oil indicator, and the dipstick. The indicator comes on late, like, it is bone dry and well below the L mark on the dipstick.

But, I mean, every model is different.

(I know this because this is how we started to learn we were losing oil, somewhere. … and unlike the parent poster's suggestion that old cars did this after 10k miles … this was around 130k miles. This is but one car, though, I suppose.)

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Re:Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years by no_wizard on Monday June 26, 2023 @07:41PM (#36487312)

They don't wash the windshields or check the washer fluid in any part of Oregon I've been at so far. Granted I'm a recent move in, but this never happens, at least not at the Fred Meyer or Costco gas stations I go to.

More often than not, its just a bunch of people standing around using their phones as they wait for fill ups to end and they meander between the cars. Its really poor service, honestly.

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