When I first heard about personal car sharing, I thought that insurance was the big hang-up.
What would happen if a car sharer crashed because the personal car she borrowed had bad brakes?
He was fired after being cited for "operating a motor vehicle while subject to an impairing substance, " while in a personal car on personal time.
While as president, Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) usually traveled in a limo, his most prized personal car was said to be a 1952 U.S. Army Jeep.
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The third San Francisco-area company involved in personal car sharing, Spride Share, conducted a survey on this new phenomenon with the University of California at Berkeley.
The basic idea is pretty simple: Make your car, which is just sitting around anyway, work for you by going on cellphone-app-enabled trips for customers of personal car sharing services.
Personal car service Uber Inc. has hired 10% to 15% of its nearly 250 employees from the finance industry and 5% from investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in particular, says Uber Chief Executive Travis Kalanick.
Pope Francis also took the bus, ditching the personal papal car service, according to Cardinal Dolan.
But, as Mr Storm sees it, selling car insurance, personal pensions or protection for a North Sea oil rig are entirely different things.
Tesco Personal Finance currently offers a limited range of financial products, including car and health insurance, credit cards, personal loans and online savings accounts, but there has been speculation that after current accounts they could branch out into the area of mortgages.
"U.S. citizens who have decided to stay in CAR should review their personal security situation and seriously consider departing, taking advantage of commercial flights, " it said.
He also used some of the funds to pay personal expenses such as mortgage and car payments, and to pay an associate to introduce him to potential investors to sustain his Ponzi scheme.
Those same humans who can tell a friend in detail what they want in a mate, yet not understand that the same process exists, albeit with far less personal risk, when buying a car.
We live in the middle of a boom in personal technology, and that goes for car travel, too.
Brin and Page both drive hybrid Toyota Priuses and have made personal investments in Tesla, an electric car maker.
Gomez Advisors, in Massachusetts, assesses the performance of e-commerce websites in areas such as personal finance, travel, shopping, car buying and auctions.
Today, 240 million Americans own a car as a means of realizing personal mobility benefits.
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Car buying is a matter of personal taste and style, and the CTS-V has washed the bad taste of Cimmarons and Cateras from our mouth.
No car loan, no mortgage, no personal card application in decades?
In summary, they argue that AB32 will raise business taxes, drive jobs out of California, cost the average family the equivalent of a new car, lower tax revenues and abdicate personal decisions to government.
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The government also wants to use "push technology", so it can send reminders about changes in services or important dates, such as receiving a personal e-mail when a television licence or car tax needs renewing.
As an adult, when I was somehow completely free of social and personal pressure, I would often sit in my car after a soccer game, removing my muddy cleats, reflecting on how truly joyous it is to play just for the love of it.
That future would fly in the face of business models that depend on personal ownership of cars sold through a powerful network of car dealers.
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The project's goal is to better understand the potential for car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure to improve traffic safety and personal mobility.
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All three combine to represent the logical future of personal computing: surfing, shopping and downloading the Net from your car, cell phone and TV set, and from portable Internet appliances.
Big Venture start-ups might accelerate the emergence of car-sharing fleets, thereby significantly lowering the need for personal insurance coverage.
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Myers' daughter, seeing that the driver left the car door open, went over and peered inside to see personal items that included what looked like a bundle of cash in reality, a dollar bill wrapped around pieces of newspaper.
However, the department was dogged by accusations of ineffectiveness and he made a few personal gaffes, such as being driven a very short distance by a car at a Labour conference on his way to deliver a speech on traffic reduction.
Whether you are saving for your next car repair, a month's rent, or for a personal goal, you are taking the first step to expand your choices by setting savings aside.
In some cities, the demand for car-sharing services is so great that people are renting out their personal cars through services such as RelayRides and Getaround.
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