Comment on $440 Charge For A Wheel Scuff Raises Questions About Hertz's AI Rental Car Damage Scanner

• cadekat@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I see you have never driven behind a pickup truck on a gravel road.

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  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you’re close enough to another vehicle on a gravel road that you’re getting stones flicked up, there’s no way that’s a safe following distance, especially considering the increased stopping distances.

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    • jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      gravel travels fairly far when the vehicles are going 50 mph

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      • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Vehicles also skid very far at that speed.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If you’re going 50mph on a gravel road, you have much bigger problems.

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    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s easy to armchair quarterback when you have the benefit of hindsight.

      Go ride a motorcycle and then come back and tell us how many pebbles got enough in your direction, despite following at safe distances. I can assure you that you will be very surprised.

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    • gramie@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have had nicks in my windshield due to gravel thrown up by vehicles traveling in the opposite direction.

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  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Have you tried not doing that?

    It’s really as easy as not doing that.

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  • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You don’t even have to be on a gravel road. My van’s windshield got cracked the other day simply from a pebble getting kicked up from a passing car.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have actually, for several years of my life, which is how I know it doesn’t cause that.

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    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’ve driven on a gravel road behind other cars and never had a windshield crack? Not even a rock chip?

      Now I know you’re full of shit.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Now I know you’re full of shit.

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    • Tiger666@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not you again. Yesterday you were annoying people about trump.

      Immediate downvote.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nice to know you have no counterargument.

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• lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A pebble flug up from a passing car cracked my van’s windshield the other day.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And I suppose you expect Hertz to eat the cost of replacing the windshield?

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    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes. Full-stop.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        LOL I don’t even know what to say to that. “Tough titties” indeed. You’re the one responsible for anything that should happens to the vehicle while it’s in your possession, even if it’s not entirely or even partly your fault.

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