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Chipreaders are terribly slow, I don't understand how they could not develop a secure payment system without 10-second~ delay times. My local grocery store installed new chip readers and within a week had taped over time in favor of the more-expensive but quicker stripe processing.
Weirdly, I've only really noticed this in the US. Back in Australia where we've been using chips for about a decade, I rarely remember it taking more than a couple of seconds, certainly not 10. We also have contactless payment on most of our credit cards (as in built into the card, not Android/Apple Pay) and support for it on ~90% of terminals as well though so it's not much used anymore.
Even after a decade in the US it amuses me that NASA can run a fleet of vehicles on Mars, that the country produced places like silicon valley, and that American ideology is one of entrepreneurship/innovation but as a country we struggle with changes the rest of the world has decided are worth the effort.
It makes me wonder what the US would be like if we weren't still wasting huge sums of money on healthcare and credit card fraud etc!
Of course some may say that the US is what it is because of these things...