[schoen]

Perhaps the taxi operators could make people put down a monetary deposit in order to be a taxi customer, which they forfeit if the next customer finds the previous customer has done something bad to the interior of the taxi. (That might be a challenge for taxi riders' anonymity, though -- which has already been a problem with services like Uber and Lyft.)

[dalke]

So if I barf on the seat I can say it was there when I got in the car and get the previous person to pay for it? Sweet!

[schoen]

That's a good point. I wonder what Zipcar is doing about adjudicating the disputes like this that come up today (since they don't have a human agent inspecting the car for dirt or damage when it's returned).