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Aspiring To Collaborate With The World
We are two Master's students and we are right now doing our thesis on P2P car sharing. We want determine how to best develop the P2P market but we need your help. We want to ask you, the 'crowd', for what information and feedback you have to help us. This wiki was setup with the intention of facilitating that feedback.

This Wiki
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About Us
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About P2P Car Sharing (briefly)
The Flexidrive.se slogan sums it up pretty well: 'Rent a neighbor's car'

//Peer-to-peer car rental (also known as person-to-person car rental and peer-to-peer car sharing) is the process whereby an existing car owner makes their vehicle available for others to rent for short periods of time.//

//Peer-to-peer car rental is a form of person-to-person lending or collaborative consumption. The business model is closely aligned to traditional car clubs such as Streetcar or Zipcar, but replaces a typical fleet with a ‘virtual’ fleet made up of vehicles from participating owners. With peer-to-peer car rental, participating car owners are able to make money by renting out their vehicle when they are not using it. Participating renters can access nearby and affordable vehicles and pay only for the time they need to use them.//

//Businesses within this sector typically apply some form of screening of participants (both owners and renters) and a technical solution, usually in the form of a website, that brings these parties together, manages rental bookings and collects payment. Increasingly, an automated form of insurance and breakdown coverage will be applied to rentals that take place through the service in order to protect an owner’s existing insurance coverage.//

//As with person-to-person lending, enabling technology for this behavior has been the Internet and the adoption of geo-location-based service.// ([|Wikipedia], accessed February 6, 2012)