‘World’s first’ MRI-styled fully automated car inspection launched in Hawaii

The world’s first hands-free car inspection powered by AI has been launched in Hawaii. Eliminating the need of humans, the system uses ‘MRI’-like tech that performs a 360° scan of a vehicle to identify issues using AI.

After conducting the high-tech inspection, the BMW of Honolulu center shows a full condition report that can be easily sent to a customer’s mobile device.

The center claims that the use of cutting-edge tech boosts speed of car inspection and accuracy. It also reduces the center’s dependence on human technicians to find out any fault in the vehicle.

High-tech inspection

The high-tech inspection can also enhance customer’s trustworthiness for car service experience as they will have their vehicles ‘ visual report on their mobile devices.

“This has cut the time in which we scan our cars we used to do it hand by hand,” said Lydell Bangloy, service manager at BMW of Honolulu.

“We used to do it manually. So our service associate would actually walk around the car with the camera and go around and check for damages. Now with this machine, it takes a few seconds just to drive through and it does a 360 scan around the car and it looks underneath the car as well,” Bangloy told KITV .

Sensitive scanners help perform complete vehicle check

Already in the use by US military, the technology uses sensitive scanners to perform a complete vehicle check from roof to tires. It can also show details of underneath the vehicle.

The “ MRI ” for cars then provides specific details about potential repairs in the car.

Some customers have maintained that they don’t usually trust AI, but in this case, modern technology appears to be more accurate than humans.

System performs inspection increased accuracy

Also, it eliminates the chances of faking any fault in the customers’ cars, which is a common practice of car repair centers to get more money from vehicle owners.

The general manager at the center refused to reveal the cost of the technology but he appears to be sure that by the time, the high-tech method will pay for itself.

“I wanted to get a high-resolution imagery of every car that came in here so that we could avoid needing to do walk-around videos on every single car or take pictures if there’s damage and things like that on check-in,” Tim Palms, the general manager at the center, told KITV .

“Because that really, really really slows things down. So by able being able to automate that we’re able to speed up that customer checking process.”