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Hertz to face 100 new false arrest claims from customers
- rdtwo 4y agoNeed an app that scans car plates and tells me if the car is reported stolen.
- gknoy 4y agoOr, more simply, I now need to remember to check that the car I'm assigned _matches the paperwork_'s license plate number. It's not something I would have considered necessary, but is a good idea nonetheless.
- helpfulclippy 4y agoPapers Please has prepared me for this. Glory to Hertztotzka.
- beamatronic 4y agoNo, that's still the wrong solution. A computer telling an officer that a car has been stolen - that mechanism is too easy to abuse - it ends up hurting totally innocent people. In most of these cases the driver even showed the officer their paperwork - a rental agreement showing they have the right to use the car. Don't let a computer tell the officer to pull out their gun.
- tragictrash 4y agoI got news for you, basically everything we do is delivered by computers. Also, isn't it a hertz employee reporting the crimes? Would loooove to see the 'report a crime' API hertz is using.
- olyjohn 4y agoPolice already have ALPR in their cars, and the computer will tell them when they drive past a car that is flagged for any reason.
- heavyset_go 4y agoHertz surely is partly responsible for these incidents, but I'd also say that the SWAT team-esque response, with a dozen officers drawing their guns on peaceful people, against those merely suspected of driving a "stolen" rental car, is both excessive and fairly draconian.
- helpfulclippy 4y agobut but but officer safety /s
- grubbs 4y agoLiving in Baltimore...a stolen car is a next level offense. Maybe it's justified? But it literally brings 10s of cops and a helicopter or two.
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoCops, like any other predator, pick easy targets. They're much less likely to get shot back at stopping stolen cars then they are kicking in the doors of people who know they are engaged in the kind of business that gets your door kicked in.
- helpfulclippy 4y agoSir, that Hyundai Sonata might be operated by someone without the proper authorization of Hertz and so we need air support for our entire platoon of heavily armed quasi-soldiers trained to open fire at the slightest perceived threat. Our officers are risking life and limb to perform the necessary public service of totally demolishing the occupants’ lives until they prove to the court that theyre normal people driving a rental car they paid for, and they deserve to be safe
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoThe chain is probably a dozen people long. If any one of those dozen people had an incentive to give a lot of shits about false positives this wouldn't happen.
- bsder 4y agoThe problem is that a "false arrest" kicked off by a company needs to result in jail time for a company executive. Anything short of that, and it's "just a cost of doing business".
- sonicggg 4y agoWhy are these cases civil, and not criminal? If I make a false report to the police, in sure I'll get criminal charges against me. Why is it different of its a company?
- sidewndr46 4y agoI think what you are referring to is "piercing the corporate veil". This basically never happens in America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil
- resoluteteeth 4y agoCorporations can be prosecuted criminally without piercing the corporate veil, it just doesn't do much.
- sidewndr46 4y agoI'm guessing that the fact that it doesn't do much is why it is so rare in the US.
- londons_explore 4y agoYou probably won't get compensated for a criminal case.
- peter303 4y agoGet the printed receipt when you return the vehicle. Take time-stamped phots and beginning and end of rental.