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>Back in April, we reported on how Hertz was planning to employ artificial intelligence to scan vehicles before and after renters use them, to check for damages and issue associated charges. The AI system has been live now for a few months at select locations around the country, and one customer of Hertz-owned Thrifty reached out to The Drive to share his experience after one of the company’s scanners caught damage on his rental. Mind you, it wasn’t exactly an experience he enjoyed. A reader named Patrick recently rented a Volkswagen from Hertz’s location at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, which was in fact the first store nationwide to use the tech. When he returned the car, he did so with a 1-inch scuff on the driver’s side rear wheel. Patrick says he was alerted to the damage “minutes” after dropping the VW off, and with it, charges for the blemish: $250 for the repair, $125 for processing, and another $65 administrative fee. That’s $440 all told, for curb rash on one wheel.

Archive: https://archive.today/JiuUv From the post: >>Back in April, we reported on how Hertz was planning to employ artificial intelligence to scan vehicles before and after renters use them, to check for damages and issue associated charges. The AI system has been live now for a few months at select locations around the country, and one customer of Hertz-owned Thrifty reached out to The Drive to share his experience after one of the company’s scanners caught damage on his rental. Mind you, it wasn’t exactly an experience he enjoyed. A reader named Patrick recently rented a Volkswagen from Hertz’s location at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, which was in fact the first store nationwide to use the tech. When he returned the car, he did so with a 1-inch scuff on the driver’s side rear wheel. Patrick says he was alerted to the damage “minutes” after dropping the VW off, and with it, charges for the blemish: $250 for the repair, $125 for processing, and another $65 administrative fee. That’s $440 all told, for curb rash on one wheel.

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Hertz is working with UVeye for this tech, an Israel-based company that is wholly focused on deploying AI to automate vehicle inspections.

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Somehow my Hertz rental got little tiny specs of white paint all over the hood. And then someone scratched my Hertz rental in a motel parking lot over night. I think it was the same idjit subcontractor with a truck that I saw there. I was left not wanting to pay anything and not having bought the rental comprehensive-collision insurance. I worked to scrape off specks with a plastic spoon and then I tried filling in the scratch with crayons, then tried markers, then bought a paint pen from a car dealer then gave up on that frankenstein patch up and settled on greasing it up to dazzle the eyes with WD 40 and when I returned it I put the scratch side on the shady side, parked really close to another rental car so no one could stand next to it and look at the scratch. I was lucky no one cared. I guess the days of not getting charged are over with the scanners.

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Yeah, they are trying to force you into buying the overpriced "insurance" since it will probably only cost like $200 but for some fucking retarded reason they think they are owed like $500 for a scuff on a wheel on a car that is going to be rented to possibly thousands of people.

At this point just get a hired car then use local taxi's or something. It would probably be cheaper and they will either change how they charge people or go out of business.