Turo (formerly Relay Rides) is the peer-to-peer car rental company I’m most familiar with. You rent out your car for income when you’re not using it. Customers rent cars from people for less than from a car rental agency like National or Hertz. And there are often really interesting and exotic cars, too.
In addition to 10 great ways to save money on car rentals services like Turo should be in your bag of tricks.
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Getaround is a similar company and they’ve entered a new partnership with Uber to present car rental options inside the Uber app. The partnership will initially launch in the San Francisco market later this month. (Getaround is currently only in a handful of cities including Boston, Chicago, Portland and DC.)
This adds to other moves just announced by Uber — the purchase of Jump Bikes electric bicycles and a partnership with the Masabi mobile ticketing company that will let Uber offer public transit tickets.
Between on demand rides, rentals for longer rides, public transit and even bikes on top of delivery we’re starting to see how Uber plans to spread to all modes of transportation in order to justify the kind of valuations they’ve seen while just a ridesharing business.
Enough said about Getaround and Turo… I’ll stick with the commercial rentals for now.
https://www.bbb.org/greater-san-francisco/business-reviews/auto-renting-and-leasing/getaround-in-san-francisco-ca-390772/reviews-and-complaints
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/travel/turo.html