Hertz puts cameras in its rental cars, says it has no plans to use them

[MineralMan]

44. No, actually it's nothing like that.

It's more like your weird cousin from Cleveland saying, "Dude, let me borrow your car for a week." You're going to worry about how he's going to drive it, how far he's going, and more stuff.

The car rental company isn't discriminating against people. It's setting rules for how they use the cars they own. For the smoking deal, they know that a lot of their customers don't want to get into a car that has been smoked in. So, they don't allow smoking in their cars. They're not discriminating against smokers; they're treating all customers alike. No smoking rules make sense for them, and nobody is required to smoke or is born as a smoker. You can't smoke on airliners; you can't smoke in restaurants; you can't smoke in most rental cars.

So, as a smoker, I have to resign myself to not smoking in rental cars. It's not that big a deal, really. If I need or want to smoke, I can stop, get out of the car, and light up whenever I want to.

Trying to make such rules by companies equivalent to racism is really weak. It's nothing like that at all.