Carpooling (also car sharing, ride sharing, lift sharing and covoiturage), is the sharing of car journeys so that more than one person travels in a car.

They did not invent car sharing.

How many people here have experienced car sharing or bike sharing?

Car sharing was actually invented in Europe.

We can use some smart IT to enhance transit and enable car sharing and ride sharing.

We've gone from traditional car ownership to car sharing companies, such as Zipcar and GoGet, to ride sharing platforms that match rides to the newest entry, which is peer to peer car rental, where you can actually make money out of renting that car that sits idle for 23 hours a day to your neighbor.

Basically Zipcar is the largest car sharing company in the world.

But these are like clubs they're sharing tools, sharing space, sharing expertise in what to make.

They're both peer to peer car sharing services, because the two things that really work for car sharing is, one, the car has to be available, and two, it's within one or two blocks of where you stand.

They're both peer to peer car sharing services, because the two things that really work for car sharing is, one, the car has to be available, and two, it's within one or two blocks of where you stand.

And so they were very clever about the way that they packaged car sharing.

So this is where car sharing companies such as Zipcar and GoGet come in.

I'm on a mission to make sharing cool.

I'm on a mission to make sharing hip.

You've got to make 60 different decisions, completely make up your car.

We can make beats in the car, right?

Here's a German car manufacturer that gives you the opportunity to completely custom make your car.

You know, we can make ozone from car tailpipes.

If you could make it fun, and make it eight or 10 minutes, you can't find your car, un park your car, move your car, re park your car and go somewhere you can't get to a cab or a subway.

If you could make it fun, and make it eight or 10 minutes, you can't find your car, un park your car, move your car, re park your car and go somewhere you can't get to a cab or a subway.

Similarly, the Internet is essential to the developing sharing economy, which includes car sharing providers like Zipcar and I Go, and accommodation rental services like Airbnb and Zotel.

These guys make the loudest car stereo in the world.

Zipcar took 250 participants from across 13 cities and they're all self confessed car addicts and car sharing rookies and got them to surrender their keys for a month.

But when you're sharing a car and you have a car share service, you might use an E.V. to commute, you get a truck because you're doing a home project.

I could make a contribution if I stop driving my car.

Ride sharing reduces individual's carbon footprint by allowing several people to use one car instead of everyone using individual cars.

So, Zipcar is a company that I founded seven years ago, but it's an example of something called car sharing.

I'm launching it in about three weeks and I hope to do for ridesharing what I did for car sharing.

In 2009, Zipcar took 250 participants from across 13 cities and they're all self confessed car addicts and car sharing rookies and got them to surrender their keys for a month.

They can't get out unless they abandon car and make it on foot.

How can you make such a fuss just because I took the car?

You and the girls take your car and make a run for it.

The opportunity and the challenge with mesh businesses and those are businesses like Zipcar or Netflix that are full mesh businesses, or other ones where you have a lot of the car companies, car manufacturers, who are beginning to offer their own car share services as well as a second flanker brand, or as really a test, I think is to make sharing irresistible.

To make this information sharing easy, we created the web in the early 1990's.

One is an experiment I did for BMW, an attempt to make a car.

We'll block the line, make for that main road, pick up a car... there.

It's about sharing responsibility, sharing accountability.

By sharing capital equipment, we make it more accessible to more people and ultimately increase demand.

It would take years of new car sales to make a dent in that number.

I sold my one and only car, to get the money to make the boxes.

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So instead of trying to make a car that can fly, we decided to try to make a plane that could drive.

Car colors, exterior car colors