Here’s a great picture of a short-hosed, fairly standard East / Midwest USA fuel pump.
You might be able to get the hose to the other side… but good luck, especially with a SUV.
(This is not my image - thanks to Driver127 of Wikipedia, who uploaded this on a CC3.0 license. Original here > Common ethanol fuel mixtures - Wikipedia <)
(I love that this is turning into a “how gas stations work in various parts of the world” thread! 
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Do they still allow gas to be pumped unattended, there. Pumps in UK largely require driver to hold the trigger down or the flow stops.
Sadly, I cannot find any pics of a UK driver filling up from a low-pipe pump, on the ‘wrong’ side. Plenty of pics of people in the US doing it, with pipe draped over car, as @DukeTrout noted.
Indeed! She is lucky some scallywag - or person not paying attention - didn’t decide to just drive through.
Ah, Lucas… Inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper.
I had an old MG that had just two 40-amp fuses in what passed for the fuse box. After consulting a wiring diagram I discovered that one of them was just for the horn.
Yes. Even in states where only gas station attendants are allowed to pump (I’m looking at you, Oregon and New Jersey!), there are little latch things on the pump triggers that let you walk away while it’s filling, and automatically shut off when the nozzle detects that the tank is full.
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Really? In this day and age? Do they also ban automated looms?
Spotted this interesting setup in Japan:
Was on a tram going past so didn’t see how they would snag the hose from the overhead support, but definitely done by the attendants. This image from the 2011 Streetview shows them in operation:
Japan - the land where overmanning is standard, and fax machines still seem like a pretty good idea. Oh, and their trains go up to 200mph…
Great set-up - great find!
But the attendants thing is by design for this installation, and from a service-oriented culture where economics and competitive forces enable it. Of course the shortage of land in Japan also drives creative solutions like this where flying the pumps makes more sense than letting them take up valuable floor-space.
Not saying the same competitive service-driven forces could not apply in those US states, but being enforced by statute doesn’t even let anyone find out. Self-serve (make the customer do the work and cut the costs/price to compete) has long been the dominant force, so this sort of regulation does come over as pure job protection luddism rather than a safety measure, given it has been proven safe enough elsewhere.
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