How do you feel about AI? If you rent a car from Hertz, you might like it less. They plan to roll out vehicle scanners at 100 airport locations by year’s end, and you can bet more businesses and locations will follow.
The scanners are like an MRI for cars, and unlike a code scan tool that most shops use to read stored faults, these scanners image the entire vehicle’s exterior to find damage and defects.
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