RIDEGURU
Great tips and analysis on RSG for renting a car from Getaround. I included the link below, but what I want to ask the community is whether this is worth it. Do you think you can turn a profit and make a living wage?
"For only $5 an hour you can pay for the privilege to rent a car and pound the streets of San Francisco as a bonafide Uber driver seeking profits and adventure.
Is it even worth it? Seems a little strange paying Uber for the privilege of shuttling around a bunch of techies. I decided to try it to find out for myself to see how great (or terrible) it is.
Getaround and Uber recently partnered up in San Francisco to offer cars that almost anyone can use to drive for Uber. They’re dispersed all throughout SF, Oakland, and Berkeley, and you can just go on ahead and walk up, unlock the car from your phone via the Getaround app, and proceed to drive them for Uber for as little or as long as you want."
Post comments below or read more here on RSG.
BTW, Getaround no longer covers gasoline. They pay for the vehicle, insurance and car repairs and maintenance. So it isn't $5.00 or everything anymore.
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$5 an hour? See, that sounds cheap, but not when you add it up.
So if I have a 14 hour shift, that's $70. Then I have to pay like $30 on a tank of gas. so I have to pay $100.
Well on second thought...I can definitely clear a profit. Then there is no expenses? It may work.
(though I won't try it because I already own a car.) I wouldn't let it just sit there. This would only work for people who don't own cars, right?
As Chris stated above, regular rental companies won't let you use their cars for rideshares.
Remember you have to register the car with Uber? You can't do that by renting random cars. LOL. The partnership between Uber and Geraround is what's the most important here.
You can rent a mid/size car from Hertz for $30. Just go to Expedia.
This was once discussed in another forum, and the general consensus is that this would be an INCREDIBLE deal if it wasn't limited to just the bay area.
It used to be incredible until they started charging for fuel. Now it's just like a rental car you can rent per hour.
Regular rental car can be $30-50 a day. This is compared to 24 hours x $5.00 = $lots
ZipCar had even a better deal at $15 or something.
I believe it was a no-brainer when they used to pay for gas too. The car came with gas card where you can fuel the vehicle anytime you wanted. It was truly an all-inclusive mode. They probably realized the math didn't work out pretty quickly. I think they got additional funding, and that's probably when it became obvious.
It's like MoviePass being hit with reality last week.
They announced Getaround is opening shop in Philly. This was just last week.
Seems super expensive, no? I can rent a Hertz and Entrprise for this. 10 hour shift costs $50.
Maybe the point is that you cannot rent from Hertz or Enterprise to drive them for rideshares.
So, GetAround, with partnership with Uber, enables you to do it wtithout your own car. There's value in that.
True.
So, you are paying for the insurance with Getaround. I wonder how the business is doing.
One major lawsuit where a Lyft driver crashes into a busy park, and they are toast, I bet.
Does that picture even make sense? That totally isn't Getaround, despite the picture. You need 4-doors for an UberX. No 2-door in USA.
They rent to regular people too. Not just rideshare drivers. :)
They just partnered with Uber.