Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster
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Nestle products (and sub companies)
That's a tall order. And just to be clear, not saying we should just give up against those numbers. It's not an all-or-nothing situation.
Just buy store brands and you're 80% of the way there.
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Just buy store brands and you're 80% of the way there.
Yea, it's usually the nicer packaged, higher priced products that make dumb consumers feel like they're buying something better.
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Not many people today remember when Google was actually useful. Once upon a time.
From "don't be evil" to "be as evil as possible"
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Just buy store brands and you're 80% of the way there.
very often, the storebrand is usually a namebrand product with a different wrapper.
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Just buy store brands and you're 80% of the way there.
Then you can buy nestle products and feel good about it because it's got the Kroger label instead of nestle, because store brands are generally name brand products in the stores wrapping.
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And the company that charges "gas refueling fees" for a fully charged EV.
Holy shit. The contract that dude signed had a maximum fee of $35 for EV recharge, yet they charged him $277 and claimed the contract allowed that. Thankfully, the worst I've had from Hertz is they just told me to fuck off and didn't give me my reserved vehicle.
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Okay so...in the rare event I need to rent a car, any suggestions on who to use that isn't Hertz and sister companies?
I recently used Avis, they were totally cromulent.
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Then you can buy nestle products and feel good about it because it's got the Kroger label instead of nestle, because store brands are generally name brand products in the stores wrapping.
Careful! Some of us are capable of flipping the package over and reading.
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Sounds like that shit with dodgy smoking detection in a hotel from last week..
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I recently used Avis, they were totally cromulent.
Plus they are worshipped as a god in some sectors of the universe.
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Okay so...in the rare event I need to rent a car, any suggestions on who to use that isn't Hertz and sister companies?
I rent through Costco and try to pick Alamo when possible. Avis is decent but they often share a line with Budget which can take forever.
I’m not a loyalty member of any brand for reference.
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The term AI itself is a shifting of goalposts. What was AI 50 years ago* is now AGI, so we can call this shit AI though it's nothing of the sort. And everybody's falling for the hype: governments, militaries, police forces, care providers, hospitals... not to speak of the insane amounts of energy & resources this wastes, and other highly problematic, erm, problems. What a fucking disaster.
If it wasn't for those huge caveats I'd be all for it. Use it for what it can do (which isn't all that much), research it. But don't fall for the shit some tech bro envisions for us.
* tbf fucking around with that term probably isn't a new thing either, and science itself is divided on how to define it.
It's also the other way around. What was called AI in the past is now called bots. Simple algorithms that approximate the appearance of intelligence like even the earliest chess engines, for instance, were also called AI.
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I recently used Avis, they were totally cromulent.
I used Avis in a different state for a short car rental and they sent me a hefty bill for some kind of damage below the vehicle a couple months after returning it.
I refused to pay and will refuse to use them ever again. Your mileage may vary.
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The term AI itself is a shifting of goalposts. What was AI 50 years ago* is now AGI, so we can call this shit AI though it's nothing of the sort. And everybody's falling for the hype: governments, militaries, police forces, care providers, hospitals... not to speak of the insane amounts of energy & resources this wastes, and other highly problematic, erm, problems. What a fucking disaster.
If it wasn't for those huge caveats I'd be all for it. Use it for what it can do (which isn't all that much), research it. But don't fall for the shit some tech bro envisions for us.
* tbf fucking around with that term probably isn't a new thing either, and science itself is divided on how to define it.
It's pretty clear your understanding of the history of computer science comes from Star Wars.
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I've had a lot of good recent experiences with Enterprise (in the US). There's some interesting services like Turo, but I can't bring myself to try it yet. Weirdly too personal being other people's cars.
Enterprise and Alamo is owned by the same family which means they aren’t beholden to public shareholders. Usually this means the company is ran better and not as haphazardly as public ones tend to be.
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Sounds like that shit with dodgy smoking detection in a hotel from last week..
Yup intentionally using dogy tools to extract more money from people under false pretenses, at this point I'm boycotting any company that claims to use AI, fuck em all
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No. Shit.
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It's also the other way around. What was called AI in the past is now called bots. Simple algorithms that approximate the appearance of intelligence like even the earliest chess engines, for instance, were also called AI.
And all those uses are correct, because AI is a broad field. We should just use the more specific terms these days though: machine learning, LLM, Bayesian networks, etc.
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I use an app called GoMore in some places in Europe that allows you to rent cars from other peers. The rental process is cheaper and faster--everything is done through the app--and you avoid these shady corpo practices.
Turo is probably the closest equivalent in the US
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I've had a lot of good recent experiences with Enterprise (in the US). There's some interesting services like Turo, but I can't bring myself to try it yet. Weirdly too personal being other people's cars.
I imagine Turo is now very similar to AirBnB in most areas, as in these are dedicated rentals, just owned by individuals instead of chains.
