I think it might be a great idea if self service on way in and you scans you in . I feel weird leaving keys and wondering when inspection is done and what happened between. Also should be on exit.
Hertz will scan your rental return with AI
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In my aviation career, I often rented 2 or 3 times per week.
Hertz finally got me. Jeep Grand Cherokee V6, I bent the LF rim and destroyed the tire, along with popping the lower ball joint, by hitting a curb type median in terrible weather at 35MPH. No body damage, $22,000. My CC paid half. The rest were bogus charges and the CC refused to pay. My company refused to pay. Sickening charges, a full 10x what they should be.
Hertz finally got me. Jeep Grand Cherokee V6, I bent the LF rim and destroyed the tire, along with popping the lower ball joint, by hitting a curb type median in terrible weather at 35MPH. No body damage, $22,000. My CC paid half. The rest were bogus charges and the CC refused to pay. My company refused to pay. Sickening charges, a full 10x what they should be.
I just drove through one of these AI machines at the Austin airport picking up a rental Envista earlier. Curious to see if anything happens upon return. It's under a corporate agreement that includes LDW so I doubt anything will happen.
I take a pic of the gas gauge and odometer and whole instrument cluster before I drive off. I also take a pic walking up to the car, just to document the pickup time, and one when I am driving away that include the windshield view to document I was just leaving the parking lot.
Made the return through the scanner today, no charges after 1,300 miles of driving. Win!
Yea, I’m in Portland once a year to visit friends and I have access to bikes - TriMet isn’t bad at all, they live near one of their busiest routes that has buses picking up every 5-15 minutes and I can be at PDX in 20 minutes via transit. Never needed to rent a car in Philly, Seattle and NYC and last time I was in SoCal(Long Beach), I was near the core of downtown and LA Metro/Long Beach Transit served fairly well.
https://thehill.com/business/5461657-hertz-ai-car-damage-inspection/
House panel eyes AI use in rental car damage assessments
I got one ahead of Hertz way back. My wife demolished a steel rim in Costa Rica hit puddle with hole. The tire lost all air and I had to put on spare tire.
The original tire I got fixed by outdoor road side tire shop with tin roof / outdoors. They used mallets and hammers to straighten the rim which basically a square now and remounted tire for sub of $5.
Never heard a thing about it.
The original tire I got fixed by outdoor road side tire shop with tin roof / outdoors. They used mallets and hammers to straighten the rim which basically a square now and remounted tire for sub of $5.
Never heard a thing about it.
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