Hold your membership card up to the little flashing box in the lower corner of the driver's window. Get online or use the Car2Go app on your iPhone to locate a car near you. At that point, you may begin using those hot li'l blue-and-white babies. Getting StartedĪfter enrollment and a driving-record check, members receive their cards in the mail. However, if you are not signed up by the time Car2Go runs the next offer, I gently suggest you consider it when it's free – if for nothing more than the access to an affordable and convenient local rental when your own car is in the shop. Personally, I didn't wait, and I still think that $35 is a deal. EnrollmentĬar2Go has offered free memberships (a waiver of the one-time $35 registration fee) a few times since beginning the program this past May. Here are a few tips beyond the Car2go FAQ to keep you off the curb. The Car2Go website and FAQ are helpful, but they are somewhat streamlined in that sleek European manner often confounding to us American babies in need of a hand-hold. While membership certainly has its privileges, it also has the kinks of any new beta system. In May 2010, the program opened up to the general public, and by the end of summer, I was a full-fledged member. Just more than a year ago, these rolling Teletubbies of the automotive set were first seen carousing around Austin as part of the city's pilot program with Daimler AG's Car2Go. And look! We even have our own parking spaces. We zip around town and take the parking spaces you can't fit into. He gives me an affirming nod and raises his fist in solidarity. As if choreographed, the other driver and I turn to look at each other at exactly the same moment. In my periphery, I notice that a similarly wee car has slipped into the lane beside me. I pull my pint-sized car to the front of the lane under the light, on this, my inaugural drive in a Smart ForTwo – my first Car2Go rental.
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