Specialties: Getaround empowers people to instantly rent and drive great cars shared by people in their city. Cars can be rented by the hour, or the day, with insurance and 24/7 roadside assistance included. By using the Getaround app, people skip the lines and paperwork at traditional rental car counters, and the hassle of buying and maintaining a car. Powered by Getaround Connect™, the patent...Specialties: Getaround empowers people to instantly rent and drive great cars shared by people in their city. Cars can be rented by the hour, or the day, with insurance and 24/7 roadside assistance included. By using the Getaround app, people skip the lines and paperwork at traditional rental car counters, and the hassle of buying and maintaining a car. Powered by Getaround Connect™, the patented connected car technology, Getaround creates a fun and safe carsharing experience without the need to meet the car owner, carry an access card, or coordinate picking up a car key. People share everything from a Prius to a Tesla and earn thousands in extra income each year, offsetting the high cost of car ownership while also making a positive impact on the environment. Established in 2009. In 2009, the Getaround Founders were challenged by Larry Page to come up with an idea that could positively impact one billion people in ten years. Looking towards the future of transportation, they realized that technology would change the automobile in profound ways. With connected and autonomous technology, the Founders formed a foundational belief that cars would become a shared medium of mobility. A necessary change since the current model of car ownership is unsustainable--there are one billion cars in the world, a number that is set to double in the next few years, and each car sits idle over 22 hours each day. The Getaround Founders decided to focus efforts on solving this "car overpopulation" problem by ushering in a new era of sharing personal cars through seamlessly integrated hardware technology, software, and services. Getaround was born from the idea that we don't have to wait for this technology to arrive--we can build it and could start this paradigm shift today.see more