>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/technology/car-sharing-companies-link-owners-with-renters.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26
>
> RelayRides says an owner of a midsize, late-model sedan who rents
> out a car for 10 hours a week could expect to clear about $3,000 a
> year.
Yeah? What does "clear" mean here? Total cost of ownership divided
by operating hours -- 500 hrs in this estimate -- or miles driven is
what?
If this were a good deal, the biz guy would own the cars and keep *all*
the gravy. Another case of externalizing internal diseconomies, only
here it's a business carefully constructed to corral up some
diseconomies and sell them to the unsuspecting car owner who happily
buys them at a (probable) loss.
Calculating TCoO for a cross-marque sample of late-model cars is a
tedious accounting and statistical project for a university course so
I don't have the numbers but I *was* in the auto trade for some years
and I don't really think my observation is gratuitously cynical.
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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