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AirBnB for Cars ... So, you pay to sleep in a car ?

Edit: OMG it's worse than my sarcastic initial thought. I drive my car to the airport and they rent my car to random fools to abuse and sift through my glove box.

I can see renting out the second mortgage investment houses. But who the hell has an investment car?!

God just give the VC cash for this to the GPG project.

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I'm not exactly thrilled at the ingenuity here either but lots of people leave their car at the airport for a week, two weeks, sometimes more in long-term parking. If you could wipe out that cost by letting someone use your car, why wouldn't you? Or if you want to avoid the usual rental rigamarole, why wouldn't you? Seems pretty sensible to me, if not particularly original.

It's weird that your thoughts jumped straight to an 'investment car.' Many people only use their one car occasionally, opening it up for rental, and two-car households can save or even make money by renting out one when it's not necessary to use both.

Do people not realize that a car is consumable good. There are many costs which people are not considering when renting out their cars including tires, brakes, oil changes,and of course the incalculable wear and tear that will bite you in the ass later. The rates for these "rental" cars are just screwing the car owners and raking in cash for the platform.

/rant

Owners earn 5-20 cents per mile. So an average of 12.5 cents, works out to $30 per 6000 miles. Just considering the oil, it doesn't sound appealing as a full synthetic oil change costs about $60. If you consider the savings from free airport parking around DFW for 6 months, that's 182 days x $7 = $1274. I'm still reluctant.

> Owners earn 5-20 cents per mile. So an average of 12.5 cents, works out to $30 per 6000 miles.

Not sure how you got this -- 12.5 cents * 6000 miles = $750, not $30.

(Disclosure: I work at FlightCar.)

$0.125/mile seems pretty low. For comparison, the US Government reimburses employees $0.545/mile [1] for official travel in a personal vehicle. I wonder how many miles/day it would take for the cost of wear and tear to exceed the savings in parking fees.

[1] http://www.gsa.gov/mileage

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