Hertz International Car Rental Guide

Welcome to Hertz international car rental site! We look forward to assisting you with Hertz car rental worldwide. Drive the world with Hertz!

Why Hertz

Founded in 1918, Hertz is the world’s largest and most popular car rental company, with more than 750,000 vehicles stored in over 10,800 rental shops (2,000 airport locations) worldwide.

You can enjoy the fastest car rental service worldwide. No long queues. No unnecessary paperwork. Booking with your Hertz membership, you just go straight to your car and drive away. Return without waiting, and the electronic bill will be sent to your mail box in time.

Renters’ Qualification & Requirements

●Passport

● Min. 21 years old

●Valid (有效的) driving license, min. 1 year driving experience

●International Driving Permit (IDP) or China Driving License English Translation (only apply to China Driving License holders)

●Valid international credit card (Please note that your bank card should be valid at least 3 months from the date of return)

●Booking Confirmation ID

Please Note: Hertz locations in USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, most countries in Europe and Asia (excluding Japan and Korea) now accept China Driver’s License when it is accompanied (伴随) with an English translation. Please contact Hertz China Call Center 4008423604 or follow Hertz China official WeChat “HertzGuoJiZuChe” to apply for English translation of China Driver’s License for free.

Have you ever thought how good it would be if an unfinished handwork project, which stopped because the owner passed away, could be lovingly completed?

Friends and knitters (编织者) Jennifer Simonic and Masey Kaplan started the Loose Ends Project in September 2022. The pair match “volunteer finishers” with unfinished projects online so they can carefully complete them and then return them to the people they were being made for.

It all started when founders, Simonic and Kaplan, realized that they had both been asked by friends to finish knitting hats, sweaters or other unfinished projects started by their dead moms.When more friends asked them for help, they felt it would be a good idea to “have strangers be able to finish things for each other”.

Helping strangers this way, which also assists them to get through their grieving process, was something that the two had happily agreed to do understanding how wonderful it feels to be dressed in something a loved one has created.

Adding a touching couple of extra steps, once the finishers receive the project, they may highlight the last stitch (针) worked by the dead maker in a special way before they restart the work.

In just a few months, Loose Ends has built up a global team of over 7,000 volunteers. New volunteers are asked to share their skill sets and interests,. When Loose Ends receives a project, the founders identify a good fit based on these skills. The Loose Ends team will let the volunteers try the work to “check if they’re feeling it too”, as Simonic and Kaplan never want the work to be a chore.

Volunteers do not charge for their work, while families are only asked to cover the shipping costs. The group tries to match projects to volunteers living nearby to reduce the shipping costs to the lowest.

Scientists have created a new tool that can turn people’s thoughts into words. It works by using an Artificial Intelligence (AI) program to translate brain activity into words. The scientists say the program could help people who cannot speak because of damage to the brain.

Alexander Huth, a team leader of the scientists, says, “We’re engaged in the study and are looking forward to the benefits the study can bring to people.”

The study involves two main parts. The first is a scanner (扫描仪) that allows the scientists to record brain activity. The second is an AI system that the researchers train to turn videos of brain activity into words.

To record brain activity without surgery (外科手术), Alexander and his team used a big machine called FMRI, which uses strong radio waves to create pictures showing which parts of the brain are active. FMRI can record the activity of the brain as it happens. To translate these recordings into words, they used an AI tool called “GPT-1”. It guesses which word is most likely to come next, based on the facts and details that came before.

The researchers first trained GPT-1 on lots of stories people had told about their lives. Next, they trained it to make connections between brain scans and spoken words. Then a test was done on three human volunteers to see whether the AI tool really worked. Each person spent sixteen hours in FMRI listening to stories. The people imagined the stories as they heard them, and FMRI recorded their brain activity. GPT-1 then used these recordings of brain activity to make connections between the words and ideas in the stories and the brain activity of the listeners.

Alexander found the words GPT-1 guessed were very similar to the words in the story that the people were listening to. Although the words weren’t exactly the same, they often carried the same meaning.

Alexander says that GPT-I is the first AI program to turn what people are thinking into words without brain surgery. The program isn’t something that can be easily used today, mainly because of the size and cost of FMRI.