$24/hour to drive and $18/hour to park, and that's promotional pricing. Though it does cap at $110/day, so if you use it for five hours you might as well have fun with it until the next day.
ReachNow – BMW car sharing service in Seattle
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Re: ReachNow – BMW car sharing service in Seattle
#42Yet another reason to hate the San Francisco City Government -- they killed DriveNow SF by refusing to issue a (fairly common in most cities) bulk parking permit to BMW DriveNow (basically, all the cars would be bundled into one account and would pay parking tolls collectively -- either based on estimated usage or observed usage.)
Given that San Francisco's parking situation is not like most cities, what makes you think this was a mistake? As opposed to a reasonable choice you just happen to disagree with.
As far as I can tell, they were asking for permission to park anywhere. Maybe there's a general-case problem there to solve for, but I'm not sure why "by-the-minute car rental for rich people" is a pressing problem for the city government to solve given the long list of other possible priorities.
The city has certainly been very supportive of car sharing in general; I've been a user in SF for more than a decade and the city has done a lot to push it forward.
Re: ReachNow – BMW car sharing service in Seattle
#43Why provide premium cars and then cover them in decidedly non-premium ReachNow stickers? I'm surprised this service is actually _by_ BMW. I understand wanting to use your cars for marketing, but at least do what zipcar did: don't place any stickers on the driver side so the driver feels like they're getting into a premium car.
Maybe that's the point?
BMW wouldn't want to cannibalize their primary source of revenue (selling luxury cars). One way to maintain the value of owning a BMW is to lower the status of their rental cars. Keeps owners happy and likely doesn't bother renters.
Re: ReachNow – BMW car sharing service in Seattle
#44Yet another reason to hate the San Francisco City Government -- they killed DriveNow SF by refusing to issue a (fairly common in most cities) bulk parking permit to BMW DriveNow (basically, all the cars would be bundled into one account and would pay parking tolls collectively -- either based on estimated usage or observed usage.)
Given that San Francisco's parking situation is not like most cities, what makes you think this was a mistake? As opposed to a reasonable choice you just happen to disagree with. As far as I can tell, they were asking for permission to park anywhere. Maybe there's a general-case problem there to solve for, but I'm not sure why "by-the-minute car rental for rich people" is a pressing problem for the city government to…
Care sharing reduces demand for parking spaces and promote public transit which is generally considered a good thing.
Re: ReachNow – BMW car sharing service in Seattle
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given that San Francisco's parking situation is not like most cities, what makes you think this was a mistake? As opposed to a reasonable choice you just happen to disagree with. As far as I can tell, they were asking for permission to park anywhere. Maybe there's a general-case problem there to solve for, but I'm not sure why "by-the-minute car rental for rich people" is a pressing problem for the city government to…
Care sharing reduces demand for parking spaces and promote public transit which is generally considered a good thing.
And San Francisco has upwards of 1,000 on-street car sharing parking spots all over the city;
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Car-sharing-firms-gett...
Re: ReachNow – BMW car sharing service in Seattle
#46Is there any way to register as a non-american? I'm moving to Seattle in a couple weeks for an Internship and it would be great to be able to get this all setup before I head out.
Re: ReachNow – BMW car sharing service in Seattle
#47This is interesting to me because it may be a solution to "almost there" autonomous vehicle services in the next few years. Rather than getting picked up and dropped off at exactly your desired locations, users could pick up a car at a designated parking lot, drive the car the last mile to their destination and then the car would drive itself back to the nearest lot.
The fleet management aspect of it is less interesting since I've seen quite a few companies operating in this space already.
Re: ReachNow – BMW car sharing service in Seattle
#48This is actually BMW's second foray into ride sharing stateside. They ran their Drive Now service in San Francisco for a couple of years. It never took off, because there were too few places to pick up and drop off cars, and their all-electric fleet never solved the fleet management aspect, eg charging, etc. Their mobile app also was clunky at best. Coincidentally Drive Now works fantastically well, eg in Berlin, where you can find a car on pretty much every city block. You drive it where you want to go and can drop it off at any public meter. You only pay the distance traveled, in the neighborhood of 0.40€/km. Typical inner city rides work out to a few bucks. It's cheaper and faster than cabs or Uber. It didn't take off in San Francisco, I would speculate comma because they never cut a deal with the city to let them use any parking meter as drop off point.
Re: ReachNow – BMW car sharing service in Seattle
#49$24/hour to drive and $18/hour to park, and that's promotional pricing. Though it does cap at $110/day, so if you use it for five hours you might as well have fun with it until the next day.
That seems insanely high...
How does it stack up to Car2Go?
Re: ReachNow – BMW car sharing service in Seattle
#50That looks very similar to DriveNow[1] that is used here in Berlin Germany quite a lot. I am surprised, that BMW is making its own now as DriveNow is a Cooperation of BMW and Sixt (A rental company).
Their service works really, really well I have to say. Almost every time there is a car parked close by, you rent them by the minute and park them anywhere. It is also much cheaper than Uber a cab or god forbid your own car.
[1]: http://drive-now.com