They might have hundreds of cars and not every feature is immediately visible.
Say it takes 5 minutes to manually enumerate all the features of a car. This seems more than generous. An intern can go through 12 cars per hour at this rate. This is a major inconvenience, but it doesn't sound like a thing that would completely disrupt business.
A smart intern would take photos of the window stickers, OCR them, put them in a Google drive folder, and salespeople could then search them. Could be done as fast as walking from car to car.
It started last Wednesday, and the estimate for the fix is “several days” according to the AP. I think it will be difficult even to get somebody hired in time.
The paid internship... The true unicorn...
For a STEM student, in the US? I’ve never heard of an unpaid internship, sounds like a scam.
Dang it's a shame there's no list of features easily found on the windows or something.
All those dealerships really should have checked on HackerNews before investing in all these pointless computers I guess.
Or maybe they should manually see what they have in inventory. Why is that such a difficult thing to do? The alternative is that they can sit around with their thumbs up their asses and not sell any cars "because the puter is down."