The Rental Car Problem

I needed a rental car by day's end for a short trip and none were available. I decided to rent a U-Haul van for $19.95 a day plus mileage, which is cheaper than a rental car. This option is often missed because U-Hauls are commonly associated with transporting stuff, not people. However, cars and U-Hauls are semantically close because they are both rental vehicles.

ChatGPT fixated on "car" and could not devise a solution that worked for me.

All of ChatGPT’s suggestions related to cars: borrow a car from a neighbor, look at small rental places and not just the big name companies, look at car dealerships that might rent, etc. Through conversation, it needed to be guided to the connections that cars are vehicles and there are other type of vehicles that are rented.

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