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Hertz Puts Cameras In Its Rental Cars, Says It Has No Plans To Use Them

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-the-better-to-see-you-with dept.

schwit1 writes Hertz has added a camera to many of its newer cars that uses the "NeverLost" navigational device. So why is Hertz creeping out customers with cameras it's not using? "Hertz added the camera as a feature of the NeverLost 6 in the event it was decided, in the future, to activate live agent connectivity to customers by video. In that plan the customer would have needed to turn on the camera by pushing a button (while stationary)," Hertz spokesperson Evelin Imperatrice explained. "The camera feature has not been launched, cannot be operated and we have no current plans to do so."

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  1. Why don't i believe them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "The camera feature has not been launched, cannot be operated and we have no current plans to do so."

    So we're to believe hertz put the cameras there for no reason other than to hurt their business by scaring away customers, because may be someday they may want them?

  2. Duct tape by Peter+Simpson · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Handyman's Secret Weapon.

    1. Re:Duct tape by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Realize you have no control over it. You don't know where "the" microphone is, whether it is active, nor how many there are. And you never will.