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by demallien 3926 days ago
I'm a regular Autolib user in Paris, and I have to say Autolib is just pure awesome. It's the piece of the puzzle that has been missing in public transport, because sometimes you just need a car. Some examples:

Moving large bulky items

Getting around quickly in the suburbs, out of the city centre

Rerving parking in the city centr a ahead of time

Actually, those are the three main use cases for me. I do everything else with my electric bike or the metro. Still, the service has changed my life - I no longer own a car because of it, and I'm not alone in that. Just yesterday another friend was selling her car on Facebookfor the same reason.

Anyway, I think the Indy city council would do better by stopping worrying about who had the right to do what, and just get behind this thing. It just makes people's lives better.

1 comments

I live in Paris suburb and Autolib isn't useful for me and the lost of parking space complaint is quite real. So 'pure awesome' for its customers, probably, annoying for other: that's true also.
As someone who uses neither Autolib nor regular car, I'm way more annoyed by the regular cars completely filling the roads everyday (one person by car, 95% of the time), polluting, making buses late and taking a huge part of the city/sideways, than by someone using Autolib once in a while.