What is the point of this?

Can confirm
My friend was driving a diesel work truck. He didn't know it was the only diesel they had, so he filled it with regular gasoline.

It's for women and the disabled who can't remember what the car takes.

It does, however, make it a LOT harder to lose the cap (it's not there), and so forth.

> The salesman didn't show you how to fill it up
I bet you don't even have the emergency filler tube.

but the cap comes attached to the car though

my BMWs from 2006 and 2009 have this protection AND a cap.
you cant push it to the end and if you start pumping it blocks the pumping after some drops like the tank is full
its hella annoying if you want to fill up with a jerrycan

on a landrover i used once a jerrycan and it locked the tank the sam way but the diffrence is that you cant just take after this the right nozzle... nooooooo.... you have to stand like an idiot at the gas station and than go and pay for gas for some cents, than drive home, google and find out that there is a shitty plastic piece of shit in the trunk where the spare wheel is wich you have to insert and unlock this shit....

fuck landrover

>ran out of gas for some reason in a Target parking lot, gauge was faulty
>middle of winter -20 fahrenheit
>gas station is luckily 200 yards away
>get the gas
>the safety device on the can is a bitch, have to use jumper cables and leverage to rip it off
>realize there isn't a fucking nozzle
>grab a magazine laying in the back and use it as a nozzle
>leave the soaked magazine in the parking lot

Car was used, it didnt come with it.
Had to get one from the dealer. Then i lost it and had to buy another one. So fucking annoying. There's supposed to be a space for it in the boot somewhere with the spare wheel but there isn't.

I wonder how many people said gee I wish I didn't have to crank this knob to open my windows

I wonder how many people said gee, I wish I didn't have to use 2 feet and push this stick around when I drive

Yet another pointless gadget to add to the modern car.