So expect more of these kinds of stories. Aid scans your car before and after you have it, and if it finds new damage you are automatically assessed a fine. on the surface it’s not a terrible idea, but they charge ridiculous fees on top of the damage charge, and it’s nearly impossible to protest it for various reasons. Something to keep in mind if you rent from them. Hertz turns to AI for rental car inspections, faces backlash over fees | TechSpot
Aren’t they the ones who were filing bogus police reports against random customers for “stolen vehicles” when it was actually their own system that was messed up and just not processing returns correctly or to wrong accounts? This sounds like fun.
That scanner station looks expensive … so they have to recoup the cost of building and maintaining it on the small number of customers that they can detect dents and scratches on…. FWIW, my wife dented a rental car while running it through a gas station car wash, and because she put the rental on our credit card, we were covered completely by the credit card. This is probably what they are mostly looking for. Easy payouts.
