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AI Rental Scanner Unfairly Charging You With Damage? There's AI For That
A startup that built AI tech for car rental and insurance companies is now offering it to the public, to fight back against exploitative damage claims.
Since publishing our initial stories on this trend, a few digital inspection startups have reached out to share how they’re leveraging the tech, but not quite in the way that UVeye and ProovStation, the companies that are partnering with Hertz and Sixt, respectively, are handling things. ProovStation Ravin’s decision to focus on insurance, rather than rentals, can at least in part be attributed to the very horror stories we’ve been hearing about in recent weeks, founder and CEO Eliron Ekstein told me. Ekstein believes that the potential still exists for rental agencies to use AI in a way that creates efficiency in their systems without causing strife for consumers, but right now, they’re attaching exorbitant fees to every insignificant blemish likely because “they need to justify the cost” of their scanning equipment.
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