"3"^^ . . "5"^^ . . . "0"^^ . "2014-10-16T00:00:00"^^ . "Needs improvement but the concept is brilliant.\n\nI'm also a Zipcar member and I actively use both depending on the circumstance.\nI'm going to give you a scenario by scenario comparison between the 2 companies in order to help understand why car2go is awesome and why people think it's not. \n\nPoint A to B? or A to A?\nWhen I intend to be somewhere for an extended amount of time, like dinner with friends or a concert or a yoga class, I prefer to use Car2go so I can travel from point A to B and leave the car indefinitely. If I'm lucky, an hour or two later, that same car is still available to take back home but I don't pay for the time it sits in the lot.\n\nIf I'm running errands or picking someone up from the airport, it sometimes makes better sense to rent a Zipcar when you need to travel point A to A again. I also consider whether I need a lot of trunk space or not.\n\nOther pros of Car2go. You pay buy the minute! So yes, some complain that it works out to $15 per hour, but if you accidentally drive 1 hour and 6 minutes you get charged 1 hour and 6 minutes. Where with Zipcar you have to confirm no one else has booked the car right after you and if you return it late without notifying them, you will get penalized heavily. \n\nIf you fill up a Car2go with gas, you get 15 min of free driving!\n\nCar2go's are only smart cars, and this is a company that relies on GPS for finding Car2go lots and everything is automated so yes, expect problems. And I have!\n\nI don't like Car2go in underground lots. I've had bad reception and a few problems with the car not completing the trip because it thought the gas card wasn't in it's place. Twice I wasted nearly half an hour trying to reach customer service so they could reboot the system from their end so I could complete my trip. \n\nAll in all I thought Car2go was pretty smart (no pun intended). And then I spoke to someone who used Car2go in Vancouver and now I'm jealous. Apparently there are Car2go cars not just in the parking lots but they're all over the side streets where permit parking is permitted. That means there are probably thousands more of these cars available and more flexibility to park them. But don't take my word for it. I haven't been to Vancouver in a few years. But if it's true, that idea is gold!"^^ . "1"^^ .