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a while back billboard ads appeared everywhere for , a "carsharing" service. "rent a stranger's car for $5 an hour!" it proclaims. "make $1000/year with your unused car!" it blags. the site only allows sign-in via google or fartbook. so, honestly, i have a feeling that $5 is for a rusted-out ford fiesta, but i cannot verify. while i might consider renting a nice car from someone else for a few hours of fun, the idea of handing over my keys to complete stranger for a couple bucks an hour strikes me as incredibly. fucking. stupid i can just imagine the call: "hi, uh, yeah, we rented your tesla to a 22yo on a party vacation, your car is smashed up, and the cops are going to keep what's left of it while the investigation pends. hope you have insurance" i'm not sure if it's still law, but there used to be "you cannot rent a car if you are under 25, because people under 25 are far more likely to do something stupid." like run a red light and hit pedestrians |
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The husband, 39-year-old Benjamin Dean, was killed. His wife was hospitalized with injuries. Neither the driver of the Tesla nor the Mini Cooper's driver were hurt. Police said it was not immediately clear what caused the Tesla driver to run the red light. The Tesla driver, a 22-year-old woman, was taken into custody on suspicion of involuntary vehicular manslaughter. She rented the Tesla Model 3 Saturday afternoon on the car-sharing app Getaround. if not for this app, those people might still be around. want to commit a bank robbery? rent a getaround car on getaround for $5/hour want to sell drugs? rent a getaround car for $5/hour |
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So reports the San Francisco Chronicle, which notes the age of the driver of the rented car as 22. Getaround's website, which offers Teslas starting at $25 an hour, states that renters of specialty cars must be at least 25 years old. ok, yes, it's still a thing, and that answers my question about cost, too |
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ok, that's my rant for tonight. |
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It's amazing how the rentier class has discovered how to extract rent without owning the property being rented - Uber, Airbnb, this shit, and so on. And they don't even pay to maintain the property in question. 19th century pigs wearing top hats would be astonished. |
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yes, totally. what do they freaking do, aside from run servers; write smartphone apps? arguably, the value they provide is being a connector -- sort of like how people will pay for a matchmaker to find them a spouse. except, with a matchmaker, it's a very personal thing. Uber, Airbnb, this, shit, and so on scale it up to obscene levels and see their customers as nothing more than data points on a chart to profit. they're off in an ivory tower somewhere, comfortably isolated from all the hell they unleash. even when they actually offer something other than other people's time and property, bird scooters clog up the sidewalks in silicon valley. on the note of bird: it'd take six months of use for a scooter to even pay itself off, and they've lasted, on average, less than a month. just burning cash, taking on investors, until they can IPO 'n' GTFO. for a while, i was all: how the fuck is uber losing $4 billion a year? that's like, what, three million dollars a day? where the fuck is all that going? the answer is this: they're trying to take the same cut-throat business models to other countries that already have ride-share services, like china and india. it's mind-boggling: if we keep piling on bullshit, our problems will never be able to climb out and confront us. donald trump would be proud |
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oh, no, ten million a day, sorry |
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I would guess they're using part of their burn to bribe politicians to not get shut down (not just campaign contributions), and another larger chunk would be the insiders giving themselves a reacharound disguised as payments to shell corporations. The only thing people invest in anymore is racketeering services. |
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