Car Rental Experiences
Discussions center on challenges and user stories with car rental services, including damage, tickets, pricing issues, poor treatment of rental cars, and comparisons to peer-to-peer platforms like Zipcar and GetAround.
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Wouldn't ZipCar or the smart car rental service have these issues? How do they handle them?
does that hold true for car rentals as well?
Well they do when you are renting from a large company, such as a car rental company.[0][0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20277134
Since you are renting, it's not really "your car", it's the rental company's. And I think they have a vested interest in controlling how you use their car.
don't car rental companies have this kind of churn regardless of the vehicle make/model?
Ah, missed that, thanks. still, it's not like rental places don't have a choice of cars
A good example of how people treat rental cars:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqCrGIyGxCo
Knowing the way people drive rental cars, not a chance.
Car rentals seem like the obvious place to do this. Blame it on the rent-a-car company or the previous driver, while avoiding both the toll and the egregious rent-a-car company admin fee.
Which will be costly. Also, it does not guarantee the user will return your car, right?