The New York Times reports:
Car sharing is changing. Sunil Paul, the clean-tech entrepreneur behind a new San Francisco service called Spride Share, looked at the numbers and decided that 10,000 shared cars in the United States was not likely to change the world (even if, as some sharing companies have said, each in-service vehicle takes 15 others off the road).
The answer, Mr. Paul says, is personal car sharing, in which car owners can get modest payments of $5 to $8 an hour to allow their often-idle car or truck to be shared, either by friends and neighbors or the larger car-sharing community. But before that dream can become reality, state law has to be changed.
According to Assemblyman Dave Jones, Democrat of Sacramento, “The existing auto market is an impediment to this environmentally friendly and economically positive approach to car sharing...
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