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

• 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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      • jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        if the government doesn’t want me going 50 they wouldn’t have set the speed limit to 45

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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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