Name: The idea behind Zipcar (and what comes next)
Uploaded: 2008-01-31T03:23:00Z
Duration: 13 min 25 s
Description: Robin Chase founded Zipcar, the world’s biggest car-sharing business. That was one of her smaller ideas. Here she travels much farther, contemplating road-pricing schemes that will shake up our driving habits and a mesh network vast as the Interstate.

Robin Chase founded Zipcar, the world’s biggest car-sharing business. That was one of her smaller ideas. Here she travels much farther, contemplating road-pricing schemes that will shake up our driving habits and a mesh network vast as the Interstate.

Robin Chase: The idea behind Zipcar (and what comes next)

The idea behind Zipcar (and what comes next)

Mesh networks, as proposed, could revolutionize communication, offering a resilient, cost-free system spanning continents.

Envisioning a future where road-tolling and congestion pricing, enabled by mesh networks, transform urban mobility and CO2 output.

Zipcar reduces the average city dweller's driving from 12,000 miles to 500 miles annually, curbing emissions and fuel use.