Comment by dylan604
6 hours ago
"Inevitably what happens is, let’s take the rental car example: A car is reported stolen by the rental car agency."
I've heard stories of rental car companies being very aggressive in reporting a car stolen. It sounds like Flock is having to do a lot of work to handle reports made by rental car companies specifically. This leaves me wondering how aggressive rental companies are in reporting back to the department they made the stolen report notifying the car had been found. I'm guessing not very.
These rental companies need to be held responsible for their lackadaisical use of stolen car reports. It is not the police's responsibility for what is essentially a contract dispute. If I allow someone to borrow my car, the police will not consider this a stolen car situation even if they said they would bring it back the next day. This is no different than a car not being returned to the rental company, so why are the police willing to be involved?
Hertz had a "glitch" in their system which would wrongly flag cars as stolen and automatically report that to police.
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140998674/hertz-false-accusa...