LIVONIA, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) — Technology originally developed for homeland security is now available in Michigan to inspect every inch of your car. The developers claim that UVeye is like getting an MRI for your vehicle.
“This will allow a full study to be done from five miles per hour to 30 miles per hour, although we would never do that,” said Kristie Risner, account manager for General Motors.
GM has partnered with UVeye to bring drive-thru generation to dealerships, such as Feldman Chevrolet in Livonia.
The Israeli tech start-up first created the underground component to uncover bomb threats hidden under a vehicle.
“When they go through checkpoints, they look in the mirrors and the landing gear of the vehicles, and they basically think ‘there’s a better way,'” Risner said.
Motorists use automated generation that takes thousands of photographs and then stitches them together into a high-definition image. Along with car bomb explosions, the team began to detect mechanical failures and leaks.
UVeye then added an arc component that takes 360-degree pictures of the car’s exterior as it passes by. Detection of dents, scratches and chips. A third segment inspects the tires for bulges and asymmetrical tread wear.
Once the vehicle passes through the UVeye, they receive a detailed report within 30 seconds.
“It’s about safety. That’s the ultimate component,” John Butkovich, head of constant operations at Feldman Automotive Group.
They have the generation in 3 of their dealerships. Butkovich said this is based on sincerity and transparency with customers.
“You can click on it, scroll down and see it as close as you want. And this is a genuine photograph of the vehicle itself. “
He said it also saves time for his workers and customers as it’s faster and more detailed than manual inspections. It can show damage as small as 2 millimeters.
“These are things that you wouldn’t see with the naked eye when you’re driving a car,” Butkovich said.
The dealership uses UVeye in its service line, but also for new cars coming in from factories and in its used car department, to assess their value.
AI generation can also be used on borrowed vehicles to inspect damage before and after use.
Butkovich said they don’t qualify for analysis and that customers, of course, have the choice of whether or not to fix the problems detected by the technician.
Michigan is an early adopter of this technology; Lately there are a few hundred UVeyes in the United States. Risner said he expects to see more and more technologies like this in the future.
Amazon will use the automatic inspection formula on its fleet of more than 100,000 cars in the U. S. , Canada, Germany and the U. K.