Growing demand for the innovative service is sustaining three competing car-sharing companies.
"For economic and environmental reasons, Tara Hunt wants to avoid buying a car, but sometimes she needs to drive from San Francisco across the Bay Bridge to Ikea or Home Depot. Keith Kamisugi finds it a hassle to own a car in San Francisco -- especially trying to find a parking place near his home -- but he has to drive to business meetings and on occasional errands.
For Hunt and Kamisugi -- and thousands of other Bay Area residents -- car-sharing is the answer to that dilemma."
"So many people in the Bay Area are interested in car-sharing that two for-profit companies have joined nonprofit pioneer City CarShare in the market -- and all three are surviving and growing.
'This is the only city in the country -- possibly in the world -- that has three car-share companies operating at the same time,' said Dan Shifrin, regional vice president for Zipcar."
FULL STORY: Car-sharing catching on with Bay Area drivers
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