{"id":547214,"date":"2010-04-29T16:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=7350"},"modified":"2010-04-29T16:00:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:00:31","slug":"next-generation-of-car-sharing-you-rent-your-car-to-a-complete-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547214","title":{"rendered":"Next Generation of Car Sharing: You Rent Your Car to a Complete Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7353 aligncenter\" title=\"Personal_Car_Sharing\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/04\/Personal_Car_Sharing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the last 3 years, car sharing services such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zipcar.com\/\" >ZipCar <\/a>have seen tremendous growth. According to some estimates, between 2007 and 2009 the industry saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frost.com\/prod\/servlet\/market-insight-top.pag?Src=RSS&amp;docid=190795176\" >117% increase in the number of users in North America<\/a>. By 2016, that same study expects there to be 4.4 million car sharing users in North America and 5.5 million in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s no surprise that the number of players in the car sharing world has been increasing at a breakneck pace. And now the next step in its evolution seems to be coming to fruition: renting your own personal car out to complete strangers for a price you set but through an online service that organizes the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>Known as personal car sharing or distributed car sharing, the concept is very intriguing&#8230; and runs somewhat contrary to how many people view their cars.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/04\/29\/next-generation-of-car-sharing-you-rent-your-car-to-a-complete-stranger\/#more-7350\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last 3 years, car sharing services such as ZipCar have seen tremendous growth. According to some estimates, between 2007 and 2009 the industry saw a 117% increase in the number of users in North America. By 2016, that same study expects there to be 4.4 million car sharing users in North America and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}