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This happened to me with zipcar once. Truly sucked

• npteljes 5y ago
  Would you please share the story?
  • pscoutou 5y ago
    Probably similar to this - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/zipcar-into-the-wilderness/597217/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/zipcar-int...
  • ptudan 5y ago
    Almost exactly what the parent comment said. I went hiking with some friends in the hills by cupertino, not even far from cell range. But we didn't have service (neither did the car) so we couldn't use the app nor the fob to unlock the car. Ended up having to walk to call an uber and zipcar towed the car. We got refunded but no other compensation
• devoutsalsa 5y ago
  When Maven car share was a thing, I rented a car from them once. It used app with Bluetooth to open/close the doors. The design was horrible. Anytime I’d step away from the car, the phone would become unpaired. Getting it to repair was nontrivial, and the easiest way I found was to reboot my phone. Eventually the car unlocking process became extra ornery & I had to spend something like 10 minutes in the freezing cold weather just trying ti get the car open. I was not pleased & never rented from them again. When I used to be a ZipCar member, they had a keycard I kept in my wallet. That worked well enough.