Making life without a car even easier: City Car Share, Spride team up to allow personal vehicle sharing.
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This is exciting. City Car Share is teaming up with Spride to develop a system that allows individual car owners to add their cars to the city car share fleet in their unused hours. This is good in so many ways. Non car owners get access to many more cars and locations, car owners get paid to help them with the costs of owning a car, yet have control over when they need the car, and life is better for everyone when less cars are owned. (except car dealers). People without cars are much more likely to take public transportation, even when the commute is longer and save greenhouse gases like crazy. Case in point: I am writing this on the Dumbarton Express during my two hour commute to Palo Alto.
Yet before this can go into effect, the law has to change so that insurance companies can allow this to happen. Assemblyman Dave Jones, D-Sacramento has introduced a bill (AB 1871) that would amend state car insurance laws to allow personal vehicles to be used in car-sharing programs. Currently, auto insurers prohibit individual policyholders from renting out their personal vehicles. Read more about this here or view the bill here.
If you want this to happen, contact your legislators and let them know what you think:
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