Want Some Weird Hipster In Your Car?
It turns out that cars spend most of their time parked. This should come as no surprise, because unless your job somehow requires that you be in the car to do it - we spend about 1/3rd of our time working and 1/3rd of our time sleeping - and we drive to get between those two (and lots of other good times).
So along comes a great idea: you have this big cost sitting there in a parking lot - why not rent it out?
These p2p car sharing services are now all the rage - install a remote unlock system on your car and whoosh money starts flying in... supposedly.
But here is the thing: the people who are renting your car clearly don't have a car of their own. In fact your car is being rented by this guy:
Or really - if someone does already have a car and they are renting yours it means they are going to a) drive a long way, b) trash it, c) all of the above.
So... why would you rent your car out? I mean yes, you get some incremental revenue. But honestly - is that worth having a random ass stranger driving your car around? If you wanted to have that Fung Wah bus smell, you would never have bought the car in the first place.
The other problem for me is that just like ZipCar this gives urban scavenging shampoo deprived color blind hipsters another way to sit in front of me in a freaking Prius in the left lane.
So along comes a great idea: you have this big cost sitting there in a parking lot - why not rent it out?
These p2p car sharing services are now all the rage - install a remote unlock system on your car and whoosh money starts flying in... supposedly.
But here is the thing: the people who are renting your car clearly don't have a car of their own. In fact your car is being rented by this guy:
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| Pink Socks FTW |
Or really - if someone does already have a car and they are renting yours it means they are going to a) drive a long way, b) trash it, c) all of the above.
So... why would you rent your car out? I mean yes, you get some incremental revenue. But honestly - is that worth having a random ass stranger driving your car around? If you wanted to have that Fung Wah bus smell, you would never have bought the car in the first place.
The other problem for me is that just like ZipCar this gives urban scavenging shampoo deprived color blind hipsters another way to sit in front of me in a freaking Prius in the left lane.
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