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by scythe 1139 days ago
Shared cars are a tragedy of the commons. People famously drive rentals terribly. When you spend even less time with the car you have correspondingly less attachment and accountability. As a consequence, the user fee includes a huge risk premium, on top of the usual system maintenance costs.

You could force a tracker on people, but the privacy implications are severe and frankly unethical.

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> You could force a tracker on people, but the privacy implications are severe and frankly unethical.

On a Zipcar? They're already GPS tracked everywhere. They're not your car. I don't think a device that monitors hard accel/breaking activity would be outrageous in this scenario.