QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. (InvestigateTV) — Car dealerships are using artificial intelligence to spot potential safety issues and maintenance problems on vehicles.
“It’s like an MRI for the vehicle,” said Dave Flores, a sales manager for UVEye.
With the UVEye system, more than a dozen cameras capture every angle of the vehicle, even the undercarriage, as it’s driven through a high-tech arch.
“What we’re doing is we’re using machine learning AI to try to detect all the damage on that vehicle. This includes safety issues with the tires, like bulges,” Flores said.
In the service department at Earnhardt Chevrolet in Arizona, the high-tech scanner helps save time and diagnose issues that may have gone undetected.
“This is just transparent to the customer. It’s instant. You can send it to them. Email them. They’re going to know right away what their car report looks like,” said Nick Walag, the dealership’s parts and service director. “Gamechanger. One hundred percent.”
A comprehenside report of your vehicle is ready within seconds after driving through the UVEye arch.
It only takes a few seconds to drive through the arch, and within another 45 seconds, the report is ready, including a comprehensive view of the vehicle’s undercarriage.
“This is 900 photos here,” Flores said. “All put into one, and what we’re looking for is any oil leaks, oil seepage, any broken shields.”
UVeye also detects body damage, dents and scratches as small as two millimeters. That wasn’t the original goal.
“It started in Israel,” Flores said. “It was made for bomb detection. About 400,000 scans later, we started detecting oil leaks, and that’s when we found out this could be something for the automotive industry.”
That includes rental cars. Hertz uses the technology at some of its locations to scan rentals when they’re returned.
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