Next Generation of Car Sharing: You Rent Your Car to a Complete Stranger
Known as personal car sharing or distributed car sharing, the concept is very intriguing...and runs somewhat contrary to how many people view their cars.
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The basic premises of the models are the same. The cars and drivers are certified through some kind of background check. As the renter, you tell the online system when your car is available and then others can search the website for available cars. You set the price, either by hour or by day or week.
- WhipCar, launched in London last week
- RelayRides, will launch in Boston this summer
- Spride Share, based in California, will launch as soon as they can get the laws changed in California to allow personal insurance policies to cover car sharing
Clipped from: Share your car for a fee - Spride Share
Clipped from: YouTube - WhipCar - Rent the car next door
WhipCar - Rent the car next door
Clipped from: RelayRides - Home
RelayRides Person-to-Person Carsharing is Launching in the Boston area!
RelayRides is a new carsharing service that allows people to rent cars directly from car owners in their neighborhood, whether for an hour or for a day.Clipped from: YouTube - Make money letting others drive your car
Make money letting others drive your car
Sources:
- Next Generation of Car Sharing: You Rent Your Car to a Complete Stranger
- Next Generation of Car Sharing: You Rent Your Car to a Complete Stranger : Gas 2.0
- Share your car for a fee - Spride Share
- YouTube - Personal vehicle sharing
- Hire Cars on WhipCar - Local Car Rental, Put Your Car to Work | WhipCar
- YouTube - WhipCar - Rent the car next door
- RelayRides - Home
- YouTube - Make money letting others drive your car
- "Two Services Aim To Get Car Owners To Share Their Automobiles With Strangers" Green Car Advisor
- Spride Share: Using the Web for Distributed Car Sharing
- Spride Share - Using the Web for Distributed Car Sharing - NYTimes.com
- WhipCar launches neighbour-to-neighbour rental scheme | Money | guardian.co.uk
- Idle cars could be moneymakers | San Francisco Examiner