For about the last twenty years, my wife and I have had a pretty simple rule: if we don't need to drive to work, we don't need to own a car. We applied this even in car-centric places by taking advantage of carshare services. People don't seem to understand just how easy modern carshare services have become, which is too bad, as they would benefit almost everyone. Patreon: https://patreon.com/notjustbikes Twitter: https://twitter.com/notjustbikes Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/notjustbikes One-time donations: https://bunq.me/notjustbikes NJB Live (my bicycle livestream channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9v57F4xz46KaDsvWfCv8yw --- CarShare service shown in this video: Enterprise CarShare (Toronto) https://enterprisecarshare.ca Fetch CarShare (Amsterdam) https://fetcarsharing.nl Sixt CarShare (Amsterdam) https://www.sixt.com/share GreenWheels (Amsterdam) https://www.greenwheels.nl/ ConnectCar (Amsterdam) https://connectcar.nl/ ShareNow (Amsterdam) Share-Now.nl MyWheels (Amsterdam) https://mywheels.nl/ --- References and Image Credits Witkar launch video: https://www.openbeelden.nl/media/667632/Het_1ste_witkar_station_geopend https://www.openbeelden.nl/media/55749/Nieuwe_impulsen_witkar Witkar [Wikipedia] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witkar You're Going to Love AutoShare [2011] AutoShare [YouTube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HIqha-5bvY Global, national, and urban burdens of paediatric asthma incidence attributable to ambient NO2 pollution: estimates from global datasets https://www.thelancet.com/article/S2542-5196(19)30046-4/fulltext Map data © OpenStreetMap Contributors "Cars are parked 95% of the time". Let's check! https://www.reinventingparking.org/2013/02/cars-are-parked-95-of-time-lets-check.html Amsterdam CarShare services map from: https://ritjeweg.nl/ --- Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:06 When we lived without a car 0:45 Carsharing is really easy 1:04 It's not like a rental car 1:48