Good point, and i'm genuinely surprised no SV VC tried to pull a Uber attack on rentals.
Isn't that Turo?
ah well, i'm caught ignorant
From what I hear from folks, it's actually a pretty nice service. I think it's mostly a way to rent really fancy/niche cars? I know friends who will get a Porsche or a Ferrari or something for a day when they're in a city with pretty places to go driving, or something more off-road when that's relevant.
The sort of cars people are likely to have as a second car that they don't mind not having around for a couple days now and then.
The weekend trip is indeed the problem and I rent an ICE car for that. It’s a pain, car rental companies are crap. If I can order a taxi to my house in 10 mins with an app, why do I have to trek across town and queue for 20 mins with a bunch of seemingly random paperwork to do that. Adds an hour to my trip both ways just doing car hire admin. And then there’s the ‘damage’ they invent when you return it.