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The Online Autocar Leasing Business When eBay, now the world’s biggest auction website, went online in 1995. many expected i
The Online Autocar Leasing Business When eBay, now the world’s biggest auction website, went online in 1995. many expected i
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2013-07-08
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The Online Autocar Leasing Business
When eBay, now the world’s biggest auction website, went online in 1995. many expected it to fail. Why would anyone buy used items from perfect strangers? Two new services WhipCar, which was launched in London on April 21st, and RelayRides, which will start up in Boston, Massachusetts, early this summer will face similar skepticism. Both aim to get car-owners to rent their vehicles to strangers when not using them themselves.
At heart, both offerings are online exchanges. Car-owners and drivers register, contact one another through the site and agree to a rental contract. To ensure that both parties are trustworthy, WhipCar asks, among other things, for details of both the rented car’s registration and the renter’s license, and checks them against official data. It also provides insurance for the duration of the rental and a replacement car if there is an accident. In addition to these measures, RelayRides only accepts cars that have gone through a safety check and installs a device that allows them to be unlocked with a special card. This way, owners and renters do not have to meet, as they do with WhipCar.
Both firms allow owners to set the price, taking a 15% cut. Even with the insurance premium and other fees added in, the firms expect the rental price to be lower than using a conventional car-rental firm or an urban car-sharing club. WhipCar provides suggestions for the prices different cars might fetch in various neighborhoods. Shortly after the site went live an Audi A4 in central London cost £ 10 ($ 15) an hour or £ 41 a day.
Will the idea take off? The main hurdle will he car-owners’ reluctance to share so personal a possession and the requirement to keep it clean. The firms must also overcome a problem all exchanges face: attracting enough members to make the service useful. Yet cars are expensive, underused assets. On average, a British car is driven for less than an hour a day but costs about £ 5,500 a year to own a sum many would love to reduce in these straitened times. Drivers, for their part, are ever more willing to share a car. By 2016 some 4. 4 million Americans will he members of a car-sharing club, nearly ten times as many as today, projects Frost & Sullivan, a consultancy. On April 21st two big clubs, Britain’s Streetcar and America’s Zipcar, announced that they would loin forces. Pooling assets, it seems, is all the rage.
In the service of WhipCar, in order to guarantee the reliability of both parties the most indispensable step is to______.
选项
A、ensure the authenticity of the identification of both parties
B、make both parties sign a contract made by car-sharing firms
C、ask for the detailed information of both parties in rental
D、make sure that both parties are satisfied with each other
答案
A
解析
推理判断题。根据题干关键词WhipCar,guarantee,reliability定位到第二段第三句:To ensure that both parties are trustworthy,WhipCar asks,among other things,for details ofboth the rented car’s registration and the renter’s license,and checks them against officialdata.为确保双方都值得信赖,WhipCar还要求提供出租汽车的注册详情和租借人的驾驶执照,并将其信息与官方数据进行核对。由此可知,确保双方身份的真实性是最必不可少的一步,故选[A]项。[B]项“让双方签一份汽车共享公司拟定的合同",[C]项“索要租赁双方的详细信息”[D]项“确保双方都对彼此满意”,均不是确保双方可信度最重要的部分。
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