What's wrong with pulling up to the wrong side of the pump? I do it all the time when the petrol station is busy, just pull the hose over to the other side and fuel the car anyway.
but if you want a more dramatic example, it's right there in the text: Moylan got soaked because of this inconvenience. if he'd gotten a pneumonia as a result of this and died, then that is suddenly much more than a minor inconvenience.
Since learning that, I have the confidence to stick it in first time rather than 3rd or 4th.
That's not to say that USB-C isn't a huge improvement that has thankfully resolved having to know that.
I also don't know anything about any "arrow" signalling anything in my dashboard, maybe it's only on the US-made cars, I wouldn't know cause I generally know on which side I have to fuel my car.
We never, ever use "gasoline" or the Germanic "benzene" for this. Benzene is a specific chemical here, never ever a fuel.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-19/lpg-cars-disappearing...
That must confuse the hell out of the yanks
(I only drive my normal passenger cars, not trucks.)
But I'm me not in the habit of doing that, because it doesn't usually matter for me.