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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / April 2005Car Rental Company Told to Stop Overcharging Speeding Customers
This is unfair to the company. When one of their speeding customers kills someone, you know damn well the company will be sued. http://www.kyw1060.com/news_story_detail.cfm?newsitemid=45161 Wednesday, April 6, 2005 The Connecticut Supreme Court is putting the brakes on a rental car company's use of a GPS (global positioning satellite) system to fine its speeding customers. American Car Rental -- which operates Acme Rent-A-Car -- had been fining speeders $150. Acme said the fines were to make up for wear and tear on cars driven at excessive speeds. However, a consumer protection hearing officer determined such costs at about 37 cents per vehicle for each infraction. State officials say Acme failed to warn customers of the fines they would face if the company's GPS system showed they were speeding. Acme also automatically debited consumers' bank accounts or credit cards without notice. The company has already returned some of the fines it collected. >This is unfair to the company. When one of their speeding customers >kills someone, you know damn well the company will be sued. What is it with you and cars? >>This is unfair to the company. When one of their speeding customers >>kills someone, you know damn well the company will be sued. > > What is it with you and cars? Well he's a troll... See here http://www.urban75.com/Mag/troll.html > >>This is unfair to the company. When one of their speeding customers > >>kills someone, you know damn well the company will be sued. > > > > What is it with you and cars? > > Well he's a troll... 'Laura' provides an very important public service - every time I feel my blood pressure going too low, instead of eating saltly foods which are unhealthly, I simply log in here and read the latest lame rant by 'Laura'. Although logically I realize that anybody that stupid in real life couldn't work a computer (breathing would be a achievement on that level), still the whole concept of his blitheringly idiotic posts raise my BP level and thus prevent me from feeling tired :P >>This is unfair to the company. When one of their speeding customers >>kills someone, you know damn well the company will be sued. > > What is it with you and cars? By now, that should be fairly obvious: Judy's drunk father ran him over repeatedly as a child. With a speeding SUV.  Signature~/Garth "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it." - Edith Sitwell (Mail pgp@v6stang.com for secure contact information) >>>This is unfair to the company. When one of their speeding customers >>>kills someone, you know damn well the company will be sued. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >By now, that should be fairly obvious: Judy's drunk father ran him over >repeatedly as a child. With a speeding SUV. And got away with it. That's what really burns his a.s. SignatureBill Funk Change "g" to "a" > This is unfair to the company. When one of their speeding customers > kills someone, you know damn well the company will be sued. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > also automatically debited consumers' bank accounts or credit cards > without notice. That's f.cking *theft*. They should get more than a cease and desist. They should have to pay penalties back to the customers. > The company has already returned some of the fines it collected. > http://www.kyw1060.com/news_story_detail.cfm?newsitemid=45161 > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > The company has already returned some of the fines it collected. I think this case has been ongoing for years IIRC. Consumer Reports discussed it a long time ago. >I think this case has been ongoing for years IIRC. Consumer Reports >discussed it a long time ago. Indeed it has. In fact, it's received so much publicity, I'm surprised there are still idiots who rent cars from ACME Rent-A-Car. SignatureSloth Kills! http://www.geocities.com/slothkills/ On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 07:38:48 -0700, Scott en Aztlán <slothkills@NOyahooSPAM.com> wrote: >>I think this case has been ongoing for years IIRC. Consumer Reports >>discussed it a long time ago. > >Indeed it has. In fact, it's received so much publicity, I'm surprised >there are still idiots who rent cars from ACME Rent-A-Car. Especially with the ACME Explosives Co. store on one side, and the ACME Rocket Co. store on the other. And all those unsavory wily characters hanging around. SignatureBill Funk Change "g" to "a" |
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