No ding goes unnoticed – hertz ai tunnel x -ray rods each stripe at 100 Return Airport this year
In general, travelers like rental at airports – despite all the additional costs – because large car rental companies have simply not worried about the cuts and minor scratches on vehicles. Hertz, opinion and national are a high volume, and these locations also tend to be high income. Tenants therefore tend not to be nickeled and decrease (often for minor damage that they have not done to the vehicle).
Although it is always advisable to take photos and videos of vehicles before the rental, the hassles of minors tend not to go into play with the large car rental channels in the main airports. This can be about to change.
Hertz installs more than 100 Uveye inspection portals in its largest American airport stations, starting with Atlanta, and a complete deployment is expected by the end of the year.
They will have return vehicles taken to a camera and sensor tunnel. These devices, nicknamed “MRI for vehicles” reporting anomalies and creating a digital recording. The original use case for Uveye technology detected smuggling / explosives.
- This helps Hertz to identify problems with cars faster and keep them in service and then rent.
- But he also records damage to customers, in a way that the staff of the rental agency often does not do so.
- And it is difficult to find damage (reassembly gear, uneven wear of tires, capillary windshield cracks).
| Digitized car portion | Typical caught defects | |
| Chassis | Frame cracks, leaks, braking / exhaust problems, missing parts | |
| Tires + wheels | Depth of the walking, bubbles of the side wall, pressure, damage to the rim, incompatible sizes | |
| Full body | Teeth, paint shavings, glass cracks, missing garnish |
Hertz focuses sharply on costs after a loss of $ 2.86 billion 2024 linked to EV-Fleet depreciation, and it is a way of controlling costs and potentially request the reimbursement of customers.
Expect that this is spreading to other rental companies. ENTERPRISE – Knowing for their atrocious vehicle walks (which helps sales insurance in addition to taking damage caused by vehicles) – pilot a similar technology and opinions discussed test plans.
