Low Car Diet: Part 2 – Day to Day

ZipCar is proving to be quite awesome. We are constantly bombarded with useless new products and services, but here is one that actually adds value to my life. Imagine that.

This past two weeks, I’ve used:

• a Prius to get groceries and dinner
• a Civic to check out an apartment in SF
• a 328i to check out an apartment in SF and visit Golden Gate Park
• a Nissan Versa to get groceries and go up to Mount Diablo to check for some of this week’s meteor shower action
• a Honda Odyssey to move from Berkeley to a new apartment in SF
• a Mini to get back over to Oakland for a Saturday homebrew BBQ

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Low Car Diet: Part 1 – Muir Beach

I signed up to participate in ZipCar’s latest promotion, The Low-Car Diet. It’s a 30-day challenge to give up your personal car and get around using any other form of transit, including, of course, the car sharing program offered by ZipCar. To begin my journey, I first drove my own car from San Francisco to Detroit, parked it, and promptly flew back west. Here’s my baby, the car that I gave up. It’s a 2001 Saab Viggen.

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