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Long-term vancouver island bc whale watch tours parking at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport can cost anywhere vancouver island bc whale watch tours from $28 per day to $130 per week. Now one company wants to help travelers save that chunk of cash — and perhaps even make some money in the process.
FlightCar, which already vancouver island bc whale watch tours operates in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Boston, gives customers a way to park their car for free while allowing others vancouver island bc whale watch tours to rent out those same vehicles for a fee. FlightCar pays car owners based on the mileage the car is driven.
Renters, meanwhile, pay less than they do with traditional rental car companies — as little as $15 per day. Those under the age of 21 are assessed an additional $25 per day fee, while 21-year-olds pay $10. Renters are limited to 100 miles of driving per day, and they can’t smoke in the cars, drive them outside of the country or participate in illegal activity. Liability and property coverage is included for each rental, and those with major driving violations in the past three years are prevented from renting.
After just 18 months, FlightCar now has more than 30,000 members across its three cities. The startup has also raised $20 million — including a $13.5 million round that it announced last month — and is led by two young entrepreneurs: Petrovic (age 20) and Rujul Zaparde (age 19).
We enjoyed hearing from Petrovic at the GeekWire vancouver island bc whale watch tours Summit , where the co-founder explained what it s been like to be in charge of a fast-growing company in the ever-expanding peer-to-peer economy space.
It s been a learning process the entire way, he said. I haven t ran a startup before this, and I haven t had a lot of experience with the regulatory, city, airport, and government challenges that we encounter.
The startup has run into some problems with airport regulators in San Francisco , and is currently in litigation with SFO over what it means to be a peer-to-peer company versus a traditional rental car company.
Our current understanding of the rules means our operation does not require us to hold any permits with the airport directly, he explained. We’re looking forward to creating additional income opportunities and offering savings to local Seattle and Tacoma residents that are interested in sharing their car with travelers and other locals.
During the Summit sharing economy panel, Petrovic noted how the company is having trouble keeping supply steady, with not enough cars stocked vancouver island bc whale watch tours in each parking lot. In response, FlightCar has begun  advertising a deal  to those who may not even be traveling from the airport, but have an idle car sitting at home.
It s almost an Uber-like service, Petrovic said. We pick up your car, you get a guaranteed check every month, and don t have to think about it at all. It s really, really easy and we take care of everything.
We want to see you parking your car at your [FlightCar] home base, then where ever you go, renting a FlightCar on the other end, Petrovic explained. That s going to be a huge part of our development and building our community base, and just making people more and more trusting of FlightCar and willing to give up their car.
Taylor Soper is a GeekWire staff reporter who covers a wide variety of tech assignments, including emerging startups vancouver island bc whale watch tours in Seattle and Portland, the sharing vancouver island bc whale watch tours economy and the intersection of technology and sports. Follow him  @taylor_soper and email  taylor@geekwire.com .
This is great! More than 60% of the carbon emissions of a car are produced in its manufacture. By putting the world s cars to work more of the time, we can produce fewer cars, which produces vancouver island bc whale watch tours fewer carbons, which could cure global warming.
That s a good argument for keeping a car a long time and maintaining it well. Just sitting at the airport is not going to age it a great deal. So it s not a good argument to loan out your car to a stranger. Given they are less likely vancouver island bc whale watch tours to take car of it, it s actually an argument against this use.
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I can t imaging letting a stranger drive one of my cars, or wanting to be involved in a lawsuit for someone else s mistake. Even with insurance, that would be too much of a PITA, for too little return.
Who is surprised that there are more people who want to rent cars than are willing to supply them? I m certainly not. Handing over a car worth tens of thousands of dollars to a stranger to save a few bucks on parking? Who wants to risk the chance that they will come back to a damaged car, a car filled with smoke that will never come out of the seats and headliner, or, worst case, no car at all? Apparently, not very many people.