gwax's rumblings

Since the recent demise of my poor Subaru, I have been effec­tively with­out a car. Being with­out a car isn’t such a big deal since I live in the city and can use my long­board for most of my trans­porta­tion needs but occa­sion­ally I have busi­ness out in Sunset, down the Peninsula or in the South Bay, which are not the most pub­lic trans­porta­tion acces­si­ble loca­tions. Up until now, I’ve been abid­ing lim­ited mobil­ity, incon­ve­nient mobil­ity and bor­row­ing my room­mates car but no longer. Friday, I signed up for an account with Zipcar. The whole process from apply­ing to accepted took about 20 min­utes and then, rather than wait­ing for it to come in the mail, I wan­dered to the local Zipcar office, a few blocks away, to pick up my Zipcard. All in all, it was about 30 min­utes between apply­ing and being able to bor­row cars. Yesterday, rather than bor­row­ing my room­mates car to run an errand, I picked up a Zipcar; it was a pain­less and easy process. Based on my cur­rent auto­mo­tive needs, Zipcar really does seem like the best approach and, based on my expe­ri­ences thus far, it seems like they’ve imple­mented their ser­vice correctly.