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This reads like a hit-piece against ZipCar. The author doesn't give any advice, and merely retells a few anecdotes about people being stranded by parking a ZipCar in a place with poor cell service.

This isn't a problem I'd thought of before, but with the title "How Not to Go Off the Grid", I some advice. (The author doesn't even seem to offer the somewhat-obvious conclusion of "don't park a ZipCar somewhere without any cell service".)

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It doesn't read like a hit piece to me. I doubt most people would think to check their cell phone signal before parking a car.

After reading this, I will be checking car connectivity before renting one. That is, try to get one without connectivity

To be fair, this is a pretty bad issue. I've used two other car sharing services, and neither of them had this problem, only requiring cell service only when you picked up the car:

- One issued keys which worked independently once activated

- The other worked via bluetooth.

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