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Driver Fury as Hertz's New Orwellian Scanners Trigger Instant $400 Fines for Barely Visible Scuffs
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A driver returns his rental car and is faced with an expensive bill because an AI had discovered damage to the vehicle for which the driver now has to pay. Artificial intelligence is used in more and more areas. For more than a year, Amazon has been using a technology to check for possible damage to its vans. AI can record this with a scan within a minute and immediately detects whether there is a problem or whether the driver has made a mistake…
For weeks, large AI scanners have been checking returned vehicles at Hertz for damage. Now, a customer should pay, inquiries are rather not planned.
Artificial intelligence now produces scratch invoices.
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In today’s episode of “AI Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things,” we feature the Hertz Corporation and its new AI-powered rental car damage scanners. Gone are the days when an overworked human in a snappy windbreaker would give your rental return a once-over with the old Mark Ones to make sure you hadn’t messed the car up too badly. Instead, Hertz is fielding up to 100 of these “MRI scanners for cars.” The “damage discovery tool” uses cameras to capt…
Driver fury as Hertz's new Orwellian scanners trigger instant $400 fines for barely visible scuffs
Driver fury as Hertz's new Orwellian scanners trigger instant $400 fines for barely visible scuffs Hertz is facing a wave of online backlash. Critics are taking aim at the rental company after multiple customers say they were billed hundreds of dollars for minor damage flagged by new AI inspection…
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