# Car-sharing **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-sharing/954284 **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **Created:** [November 13, 2021, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-sharing/954284 "2021-11-13T11:13:23Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 1
### Author: ![Roger\_That](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roger_that/32/8505_2.png) [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That) #### Post date: [November 13, 2021, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-sharing/954284/1 "2021-11-13T11:13:23Z")
I’ve got a thread going over in GQ (now FQ, I guess) on EV charging stations in urban areas and something came up that isn’t quite GQ or FQ: car-sharing programs. I used to live in a high-rise building in NYC (20 storeys) that had inadequate parking space. it had been built in the 1960s and one parking space was alloted to each apartment which worked until we lost some parking spaces (the city took over some land it had allowed the residents to park on) and couples started owning more one car. So there were waiting lists, flaring tempers, and general discontent. I had the thought to invite a company like Zip car to occupy a small number ( say 10 of the 250 spots) of spaces, which I thought would discourage people from keeping privately owned cars. The building rejected my thinking (stick in the muds) on the grounds that I was offering to lose, not gain, parking spaces. So I went to Zip car and told them that they ought to pitch the idea to the building and show how it would fix our problem. After all, most people hardly used their cars–they drove them every few days to run errands, go shopping, maybe once in a while take a drive out of the city, but basically, the cars just sat there 90% or more of the time. Car-sharing was a perfect solution. Everyone involved, including Zip car, was totally uninterested in my idea. I’ve since moved to Florida where much the same applies. There’s no space crunch here, but the wastefulness of everyone owning a car, maintaining it, etc, is crazy. I put about 100 miles per month on my car, which is more than most retirees in my development. I would LOVE for a car-sharing company to put a few cars on the property, but again, zero interest from anyone, whhich I find puzzling. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-sharing/954284)._