Car Rental Alternatives
Commenters repeatedly suggest car-sharing and rental services like Zipcar, Getaround, Turo, and Silvercar as superior alternatives to owning a car for infrequent or occasional use.
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why not just rent a car instead?
You do realize that one can rent cars?
how about something like Getaround? https://www.getaround.com
Perhaps zipcar or similar would be a better solution?
Won't something like rental cars make more sense in such a case ?
I think you just described ZipCar :)
Surely car hire would make more sense for that type of usage
Rent a gas car for those trips.
That's basically what Silvercar does
You can rent a car for these cases.