[emp]

I think there will always be a place for individual car ownership, mainly because of morons. I am a member of a car coop which has 400 or so cars in its pool. When it was a lot smaller it was great. Most people were the kind who do things differently. The cars were left clean with seats returned to normal positions. Now that the coop has grown, I find partly emptied soda cups in the cup holders, seats left in cargo configurations, dirt tracked in with no effort to clean up, dogs in allergen free cars, etc. Masses ruin special things - they are not part of the initial culture. Also costs have risen to the point where I am dusting off my almost 20 year old car (which incidentally feels just as current as the newer coop cars, except for the electric ones which feel like I am driving in the future).

[erikpukinskis]

You're basically saying "I've seen it fail so it's impossible" which seems shortsighted to me. Do you really believe soda cans and dirt are an insurmountable problem for car sharing?