“Car sharing” sounds like it should reduce the number of cars of the road, but until recently that claim was more conjecture than fact. Without hard data, we didn’t know what impact car sharing is having. Now the data is starting to appear. Recently, we saw how the service car2Go was enabling people to sell their vehicles or suppress future purchases. And now comes a similar study regarding Zipcar. Working with the latter company, Susan…
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