Hey, it's Mark Simone. This is our bonus segment just for you podcast listeners. Hey, now when you rent a car, if you get a little scratch on it, if you get a little dent on it, you know, you try to disguise it. Hope they don't see it when you bring it back. By the way, when you rent a car, I know it costs extra. But get that insurance they give you with it.

It can be 20 bucks a day or whatever.

You know, you got to pay.

But you get that insurance, as they say, you could leave the car in a ditch, and you're fine. You don't have to worry about it. But some people don't. So when you bring the car back, he's not going to see that little, well, you're not going to get away with that anymore.

Major car rental, he's not going to see that little, well, you're not going to get away with that

anymore. Major car rental giant Hertz introducing new James Bond style technology and they're first,

but they're all going to have this technology pretty soon. When you bring the car back,

Hertz is trying this out. You'll drive it through the X-ray tunnel to get in.

It's like a little tunnel.

It looks like a big cat skin kind of.

You drive the car through there.

And it looks over your car with an AI software thing and special cameras paired to these powerful AI computers.

And it will see any ding scratch divot on your car's exterior.

It will show up.

You won't get away with this anymore.

Hertz said the cars will be scanned twice.

Before you leave the rental place, they'll scan it to see what it is.

And then when you come back, they'll scan it again, and it did better match.

Renters will receive a report of any damages flagged by the system, along with before and after photos for added transparency.

So be careful. Parking garages? No, they don't want to have that in case they ding your car. They don't want to have that. But all this technology will change everything. Now, for instance, you go to the supermarket, you got the cashier, you got all that, or you don't want to wait in the line for the cashier, or they got this self-service checkout. You can check yourself out. It never works right. By the time bells are going off on alarms and it's not working, somebody has to come over and help you. But that's going to go away too. The new technology that's coming. And again, this is AI stuff and all that. Sam's Club is

starting it. They're trying it out. So what

it'll be is there's no checkout anymore. No checkout.

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