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Re:In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t ren... by misnome on Friday July 05, 2019 @08:15AM (#20361912)
From the general public in the area, no.

But the car rental company to use GPS tracking to come make sure you are using the car in a way that they approve of, while you are paying them? Very creepy.

It also doesn't sound like it would have mattered if these people WERE parked up on their own driveway..

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Re:In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t ren... by walshemj on Friday July 05, 2019 @09:09AM (#20362235)
But I suspect that the insurance doesn't cover using the vehicle as a gypsy cab.
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Re:In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t ren... by kirubakaran on Friday July 05, 2019 @10:38AM (#20362830)
> using the vehicle as a gypsy cab

I'm sure you don't mean it like that, but fyi, "gypsy" is considered a racial slur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_taxicab_operation#cite...

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Re:In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t ren... by walshemj on Friday July 05, 2019 @02:45PM (#20364780)
It is the term used for illegal off the book cabs, and Gypsy is actually used by some Romany organisations.

Shortening the name to(I wont repeat it) is a slur and possibly a slur depandant on how its used similar to the shortening of Pakistani is a slur but the full name isn't.

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Re:In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t ren... by kirubakaran on Friday July 05, 2019 @03:16PM (#20365039)
I understand what you mean, but please see the link I posted in the comment you're replying to. Consensus on Wikipedia says otherwise. Also, personally I think using the name of an ethnic group to mean an illegal activity is not good.
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Re:In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t ren... by benj111 on Friday July 05, 2019 @11:10AM (#20363077)
Is it?

They're Romany Gypsies? Sure this usage may be offensive, but certain usages of Jew are probably offensive.

Further, I assume pink gypsy potatoes and gypsy moth planes aren't racial slurs?

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Re:In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t ren... by TomMarius on Friday July 05, 2019 @11:23AM (#20363209)
I live in a country that is full of them, and yes, it is.
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Re:In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t ren... by sokoloff on Friday July 05, 2019 @11:34AM (#20363320)
The potatoes, the planes, or the people?
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Re:In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t ren... by TomMarius on Friday July 05, 2019 @02:53PM (#20364838)
We don't have these other words in our language so I don't know
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Re:In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t ren... by benj111 on Friday July 05, 2019 @03:58PM (#20365371)
http://varieties.ahdb.org.uk/varieties/view/Pink%20Gypsy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_DH.60_Moth

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Re:In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t ren... by saxonslav on Friday July 05, 2019 @10:56AM (#20362962)
I'd usually say jokingly "what are you gonna do, call the police?" but that's an actual issue these days so whatever
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Re:In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t ren... by PavlovsCat on Friday July 05, 2019 @12:43PM (#20363873)
Why not just "thanks, I didn't know that" ?
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Re:In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t ren... by JudgeWapner on Friday July 05, 2019 @12:48PM (#20363921)
It's not creepy at all to monitor the usage of their product. Even if they were on private property it's not an invasion of privacy to observe them from public property. What's creepy is people renting a vehicle for a usage other than getting from point A to B that also requires privacy.
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Re:In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t ren... by seanmcdirmid on Friday July 05, 2019 @08:29AM (#20362004)
If they were renting a car there is a very high chance that they didn’t have their own driveway anyways (detached house ownership is highly correlated with car ownership).
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Re:In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t ren... by kristopolous on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @02:27AM (#20457023)
Actually many did. Many of our users were living in households with more people than than cars.

We had a program that allowed them to end the ride on their driveway so long as it was open for the public to do the same.

We had hundreds of people opt in in the first week. Turned out to be a very popular program

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