Okay, this might just be one of the smartest all time ideas in the history of EVER. I would’ve given my eyeteeth for something like this back when I was in college.
For those of you still in college, especially those of you living on campus, you know first hand how tough it can be. Basically, if it’s not within walking distance of you, it’s just plain old not available. All the great things to see and do and you can’t get to a one of them because YOU CAN’T REACH THEM.
And having a car on campus is a difficult proposition at best. Parking is insanely difficult to come by and often expensive.
Thus, having a ZipCar branch around, like CalTech just got, is a truly brilliant idea. ZipCar, in case you don’t remember, acts as basically an extremely short term car rental service, so that students on campus can borrow a car for a day and return it later. Naturally, this is a pretty pricey service–upward of sixty bucks a day, and that doesn’t include the fees you pay to be able to pay the fees to rent the car in the first place.
But still, for otherwise stranded students, this might beat trying to figure out the nightmarish car system on college campuses.
Tags: caltech, Car Rental, college, college campus, short term car rental, zipcar