Relevant to your point and this article's Northwest angle, I note that the Car2Go[1] service has become fairly prominent in the Seattle area. It's quite differe

Relevant to your point and this article's Northwest angle, I note that the Car2Go[1] service has become fairly prominent in the Seattle area. It's quite different to services like ZipCar, in that Car2Go has worked out a few key details: 1. Smartphone apps that show you the location of the nearest cars and allow various interaction. 2. The ability to walk up to any car not reserved/in use and take it. 3. Parking deals with the city -- just park in any public parking spot, no worries about metering. These attributes raise convenience considerably vs. some competing carshare services and remove ceilings on how many vehicles can be injected into the local system. For anyone following Horace Dediu's Asymcar[2] podcast, Car2Go fits right into their theme of exploring what will really disrupt personal transportation as we know it today. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car2Go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car2Go [2] http://www.asymcar.com/ http://www.asymcar.com/