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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.

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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.

$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

> 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.)

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