Mastercard has teamed up with Mercedes-Benz on fingerprint sensor tech so you can pay at the gas pump with a finger.
Mastercard has teamed up with Mercedes-Benz on fingerprint sensor tech so you can pay at the gas pump with a finger.
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Mastercard and Mercedes-Benz let you pay at the gas pump via fingerprint

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Mercedes-Benz and Mastercard have teamed up to let people pay at the gas pump using fingerprint sensors.

The companies are bringing embedded in-car payments to the point of sale. This partnership allows customers to make convenient and secure digital payments directly from their Mercedes-Benz vehicles using a fingerprint sensor. The service will initially be available at over 3,600 service stations in Germany.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.