But then the more you look at it, the more you realize:
1. You are doing your own type checking in the returnRental() method. You can't change the argument type of returnRental() to take a Car, since it's an override (not an overload) of the method from class Rental. (Overloading would take away your polymorphic flexibility with Rental).
2. You really don't want to make separate subclasses for every possible kind of rentable thing (cars, computers, bowling shoes, children, and so on).
But given your natural brilliance (heightened by this contrived scenario), you quickly realize that you can make the Rental class a generic type—a template for any kind of Rentable thing—and you're good to go.
(We did say contrived…since in reality, you might very ...
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