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New Car-Sharing Businesses Take Off

  • NPR.org, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:10 AM

Zipcar has a new kind of competition in companies like Silicon Valley-based startup Wheelz, which is cultivating a new business on campuses: getting people to share their vehicles to strangers for incremental money.

Wheelz founder Jeff Miller says there's a growing shift among American consumers away from owning assets like cars "to purchasing a service that helps you achieve the same end."

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