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Started 4 months ago by Walker
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Walker
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Getaround: The Future of Car-Sharing
NINA LINCOFF
Editorial Intern
December 27, 2011

Zipcar, the first car-sharing company in the United States, has been around for 11 years. But the company had a net loss of $14.7 million in 2010. Getaround, a San Francisco-based peer-to-peer startup, may have a more sustainable vision of the future of car-sharing. Instead of owning, maintaining, and operating its own fleet of cars (which is how Zipcar works), Getaround owns no vehicles, which may help it avoid problems like those that plague Zipcar.

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Posted 4 months ago #
joshlapp
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This looks awesome. They aren't outside of California and Oregon yet but I signed up to encourage them to open here. That would be great.

Posted 4 months ago #
NerosNeptune
Goodale Park
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I could use a car-sharing service.. but I think I'd rather use a car maintained by a company and not some random person. How can I know when the last time they changed their breaks was?

I recently signed up for Hertz On Demand, which as far as I know is the only thing like this around Columbus. Unfortunately they are only at OSU and not downtown. Something like this would be popular with people moving downtown who may not need a car very often and don't want to pay the high monthly rates to keep a car downtown. I haven't used it yet but I figure I could take a bus up to campus when I need it.. or just use Enterprise $10/day if its a weekend.

Posted 4 months ago #
neela

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There are similar companies to Get Around in other places, but not here. I'm too tired to find others, but RelayRides is one in Boston. http://relayrides.com/about

Posted 4 months ago #
JonMyers
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Americans aren't very good at sharing.

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