What is car sharing?
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by: Jessie
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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 Time: 8:51 PM
If you live, work and entertainment all can be solved at a distance of several streets not too far away. Then the best way to go out for you is regarded as on foot. But if suddenly one day out of special circumstances, such as the need to pass through the city to see the famous specialist in the hospital. Then walk is difficult to solve the problem.
In this case, car sharing might be a good choice. Car sharing is a group of people within a short time share the common use of a car. Car sharing companies are generally coordinating a vehicle, and is responsible for vehicle insurance and parking issues.
Since then, there would be a "car share" concept. In the 90 years of the 20th century, car sharing is very popular in Europe, and has spread to Canada the mid 90's. To around the year 2000, car sharing began prevailed in the United States. At the same time, car sharing companies are emerging in Asia, followed by Australia, it also joined the wave of car sharing.
Now, the car sharing phenomenon has appeared in dozens of countries and thousands of cities there, and they are spreading widely. Experts predict that as oil prices, pollution, traffic congestion and other factors, plus the inconvenience of self-drive, and the problem that can not find cheap parking issues, car sharing phenomenon will become more common. Currently, car sharing organizations around the world have nearly 12,000 vehicles, a total of about 348,000 members, these figures are increasing every day.
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