The Insider: Thanks for the keys to the rental car — now what?

Editor’s Note: This is part four of our new “Insider” series on car rentals. Here’s the first installment, the second one and the third one. By the way, if you see something I’ve missed in this post, please tell me in the comments .

You’re standing in front of your rental car. Now what?

If you said, “Load your luggage and drive away,” then you need to keep reading.
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Take a picture of your rental vehicle — your car rental company is

carNext time you rent a car, take a picture of it. No, seriously. Whip out your digital camera and take a snapshot.

Your car rental company might be.

Hertz said yesterday it plans to introduce a new photographic inspection system to take pictures of its cars before and after they’re rented. Such applications have been available for years, but they haven’t been adopted on this scale until now.
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