Mobility as a Service (MaaS) companies

[cwerdna]

Japanese car-sharing service members are renting cars — but not for driving
Customers are using the cars for some odd and unexpected purposes
https://www.autoblog.com/2019/07/11/jap ... r-driving/

It points to this:
Growing number of car-sharing users don’t rent cars for driving
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201907040011.html

[cwerdna]

Mercedes Thieves Showed Just How Vulnerable Car-Sharing Can Be
After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 of its vehicles were stolen in one day.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ing-can-be

[cwerdna]

ReachNow car sharing and ride hailing is dead:
https://www.wweek.com/news/2019/07/18/r ... y-streets/

The link from https://twitter.com/reachnow/status/1151601543470362624 is dead but there's a copy at https://web.archive.org/web/20190717220 ... ice-today/.

[GRA]

GCC:

Canoo unveils first subscription-only EV

Canoo unveils first subscription-only EV


LA is planned to be the launch market in 2021. We'll see if they get there. More details and images in this GCR article: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/11 ... and-beyond


ABG:

Ford says Austin will get its self-driving cars in 2021
Commercial taxi service will also operate in Miami and D.C.

https://www.autoblog.com/2019/09/25/for ... ving-cars/