Membership Promo: BMW's Reach Now carsharing

[butterflydreaming]

If you didn't get free membership from Reach Now the first time around, they are currently waiving the $39 membership fee again for Seattle. This may also be a promo in other regions; I don't know.

The app for Android has bad reviews, and for me it won't advance past through the license screens. So, I would advise setting it up in advance rather than waiting until you're standing by a car.

Even if you have a reliable vehicle, I always advise taking advantage of the free membership promos. One-direction trip car share can be a handy thing when you need it.

Comments

[free_to_dream]

Looks like a nice service. I wish they'd come up with something similar outside the urban areas.

[butterflydreaming]

I heard, some years back, of a co-op car sharing on Orcas, I think it was. With a small group, I think that can work. It's the middle sizes, the cities outside the core city, where it would be the most difficult to balance the number of cars and members using them.

I think it's so useful to have cars just when you need them, for a couple of hours now and then. It's too bad that some ideas only happen in dense urban areas where big companies (like Avis, Mercedes, & BMW) find it profitable to do them. There usually aren't even places to rent a car for day use, outside of airports and city downtown.