DDF Car Sharing!

[flyingBlue]

What do you guys think of the idea to have a platform here to share cars to another member who is looking for one (for a fee)?

[AsherO]

What do you guys think of the idea to have a platform here to share cars for another member who is looking for one (for a fee)?

Isn’t our community too geographically dispersed for this to work?

[whYME]

Isn’t our community too geographically dispersed for this to work?

That would be a big plus for those looking for a car swap.

[AsherO]

That would be a big plus for those looking for a car swap.

Sharing and swapping are practically the opposite.

Sharing is when there’s one car and two people/families use it.
Swapping is when there are two cars and one person/family uses the other person/family’s car and vice versa

[flyingBlue]

Isn’t our community too geographically dispersed for this to work?

It is, but there are still many neighborhoods where members are concentrated...

[whYME]

Sharing and swapping are practically the opposite.

Sharing is when there’s one car and two people/families use it.
Swapping is when there are two cars and one person/family uses the other person/family’s car and vice versa

1. Correct. I was building on his idea.

2. As to your actual question, I believe a majority of DDFers are concentrated in a few areas, enough for the geographics of this idea to work.

[AsherO]

It is, but there are still many neighborhoods where members are concentrated...

Give me the numbers. What do we have? A few thousand active members (idk what the threshold is to qualify as “active” and I have no idea how to quantify whatever your definition is.

How many member are interested? 5%? That’s a few dozen geographically dispersed members, most of whom are interested but don’t own a car. Owning and maintaining a car is costly and a hassle, with the additional hassle of shuttling a car back and forth with your sharing partner. Gotta figure out the logistics and economics of it.

Then there’s scheduling, who gets the car when. My guess is you’ll oftentimes have overlap between high and low peak demand, both sharing-partners really want the car on chol Hamoed but don’t have any use for it on a three-day YomTov.

Add a third sharing partner and you get better economics, but the logistics and trust becomes more complicated.

I see it as too complicated to work on a grand scale, but two members who are really committed to the idea and are willing to work out all the kinks to make it work might pan out.

[whYME]

Give me the numbers. What do we have? A few thousand active members (idk what the threshold is to qualify as “active” and I have no idea how to quantify whatever your definition is.

How many member are interested? 5%? That’s a few dozen geographically dispersed members, most of whom are interested but don’t own a car. Owning and maintaining a car is costly and a hassle, with the additional hassle of shuttling a car back and forth with your sharing partner. Gotta figure out the logistics and economics of it.

Then there’s scheduling, who gets the car when. My guess is you’ll oftentimes have overlap between high and low peak demand, both sharing-partners really want the car on chol Hamoed but don’t have any use for it on a three-day YomTov.

Add a third sharing partner and you get better economics, but the logistics and trust becomes more complicated.

I see it as too complicated to work on a grand scale, but two members who are really committed to the idea and are willing to work out all the kinks to make it work might pan out.

I understood the op as talking more about a rental situation than a long-term partnership, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[EliJelly]

I understood the op as talking more about a rental situation than a long-term partnership, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

+1

[flyingBlue]

Give me the numbers. What do we have? A few thousand active members (idk what the threshold is to qualify as “active” and I have no idea how to quantify whatever your definition is.

How many member are interested? 5%? That’s a few dozen geographically dispersed members, most of whom are interested but don’t own a car. Owning and maintaining a car is costly and a hassle, with the additional hassle of shuttling a car back and forth with your sharing partner. Gotta figure out the logistics and economics of it.

Then there’s scheduling, who gets the car when. My guess is you’ll oftentimes have overlap between high and low peak demand, both sharing-partners really want the car on chol Hamoed but don’t have any use for it on a three-day YomTov.

Add a third sharing partner and you get better economics, but the logistics and trust becomes more complicated.

I see it as too complicated to work on a grand scale, but two members who are really committed to the idea and are willing to work out all the kinks to make it work might pan out.

My idea was not for an ongoing partnership, I was talking about when a members is looking for a car for a couple of hours, a day or 2, they would post here to see if another member would share his vehicle for the desired time for an agreed price.

[lcm]

My idea was not for an ongoing partnership, I was talking about when a members is looking for a car for a couple of hours, a day or 2, they would post here to see if another member would share his vehicle for the desired time for a agreed price.

+1000

[Live N Learn]

Insurance?

[AsherO]

Insurance?

I believe it covers a non-household acquaintance borrowing your car.

[yitzgar]

I believe it covers a non-household acquaintance borrowing your car.

Not if they are renting....

[Yehuda57]

I believe it covers a non-household acquaintance borrowing your car.

Which is all fine and well until you find the car is listed on public website. If it's some sort of closed group, it could work

[flyingBlue]

So I am looking for a minivan next weekend.
Whoever wants to share theirs please PM me.

[grodnoking]

I agree this is a good idea for a case where someone has a car and needs a minivan for a few hours. You drive to that guy, swap cars for a little and change back.