I saw the female character put her wallet against the windshield to get into the car and once inside she used some sort of electronic key to start it. I'm just curious as to how it works and what she put agains the windshield, I didn't understand the procedure and where I live we certainly have nothing similar to it.
Thank you!!
it is a "car-to-go" System, a lot of European Cities have it. You sign up with the Company, get a chip put upon your Drivers license Card and via an app you can look up where there are available cars (of this carsharing Company) in your area. Then you go to it, hold your wallet to a sensor on the windshield and the car opens, key is inside.
You are charged (here in Ulm, Germany, it is I think 1€ per 10 minutes) once a month via credit Card, adding up all the amount of time you used one of These cars. Don't have to fuel it up or pay anything extra.
Good System, I used it often when I lived there.
That sounds awesome.
Thank you so much for your very thorough answer!! We have nothing like that here in Uruguay. It seems like a great system.
Thank you!
So you basically can vomit, trash, do whatever in this car to go instead of vomiting, trashing, doing whatever in an Uber car? If the company contacts you, you can just say it wasn't me who vomited. People get away with that a lot in Uber.
shareThe next person to use or maintain the car will likely call if the car is in bad shape, and the company will know it's you. You may get away once but surely not a second time.
shareOnce is enough.
shareIt's all electronic. If you don't call them say it's trashed, of course you are teh one who did it when logged in......
People that make a business with stuff like that aren't *beep* morons....
Nah, we can always say the current renter is the one who did it and they're blaming it on us.
shareNot when the current renter makes the call immediately after unlocking the car. If you call within a couple of minutes of having unlocked it and the car has not been driven from the location where you (the current renter) unlocked, who do you think the company will believe? The current renter of course, so you will be charged (and probably have your account closed).
shareDon't have to fuel it up or pay anything extra.
Easy, they get you (the customer) to do it. How? Well, they pay you in car-minutes if you do it. It depends on the company, but it can be anything between 20 and 40 minutes (maybe some companies offer more than this). Sometimes it can be quite convenient, for example if you're going into the center of the city and it's only a few minutes walk to your actual destination. You get say 30 minutes of free car-minutes which basically means you can drive their car for 30 minutes without paying the next time you use one of their cars.
That's the gist of it. I guess if you are smart about your routes then you can more or less drive for free if you always charge their cars. I think some people probably look for cars with a low electrical charge / low gasoline and recharge/refuel those cars to obtain lots of bonus car-minutes.
In the States it's 'Car 2 Go.'
Can you fly this plane?
Surely u cant be serious
I am serious,and dont call me Shirley
I live in Firenze, we have 3 different car sharing companies: Car2Go (Smart cars), Enjoy (Fiat Pandas) and Share n go (electrical mini cars).
You can localize, book and open the cars with your smartphone, using the apps of the companies!
If you find the car damaged or dirty, you can send an alert on the display inside the car.
It was my first time seeing this and it looks pretty brilliant. Have no idea how such a system could run in America with its brutal weather and insurance hassles but it's a great idea.
"I said no camels, that's five camels, can't you count?"
America is large. I am sure this wouldn't work in Trump country, but in more civilized areas like California it would work....
shareI thought the worst places for it would be New York and California. Not just because of the traffic, but because people in liberal states tend to give less of a crap about other people's possessions.
shareWe also have ZipCar in the U.S.
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We have ZipCar here where I live. 6 of them parked in the parking lot in front of 3 apartment complexes about 2 blocks from my house.
I have a card for them. Just press it against the reader on the windshield and it unlocks the car and the ignition is push button.
When you are ready to return it to the same space you picked it up at, you fill it up with gas.
A gas credit card is in the glove compartment. Use it at the gas station.
You can rent the car as short as 10 minutes increments to as long as a week with up to 180 miles a day allowance.
I have always gotten a clean car even when the website shows someone before you has it. I think there is a company that comes out after every use and cleans it.
In Denmark, Copenhagen, we use DriveNow cars. They are BMW i3 electric.
Either you use an App, or you use your electronic pendler card
there are also two others, but they are unimportant.
This is the future of cars! Young people care less and less about owning their own car that is only used 5% of the time.... Even the major car companies already plan for this new reality where less households buy a car for their own.
shareI can't speak for "young people" outside the USA but here we are still a car culture. I have three boys and two girls (all young adults) and they all own their own cars (two of them own more than one). I, myself, although no longer young own four. I would have several more if I had enough room for them.
Of course, I live in the Western United States where public transportation is not very useful. But I once lived in New York City and I still owned one car there as well. As long as you stay inside the city limits you don't need a car but if you want to travel outside you have to have one - or treat your date to a ride on the subway or train - yuck!