Don't be cavalier about lending your car, adds Salvatore. If you know someone isn't a good driver, think twice about giving your permission. Any crash they're in could go on your insurance record.
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Sharing the driving and spending more time as a passenger could help reduce your stress levels. Having someone else in the car with you whilst you're driving can also make a journey much more pleasant! Car sharing takes cars off the road, helping reduce air pollution and also helping to reduce congestion.
What Are the Risks? Owners face the most risk with car sharing and must come to grips with strangers driving their cars. However, these companies do carry additional insurance for your vehicle. This includes liability for accidents involving other cars and drivers.
What Are The Disadvantages? Costly: Car sharing is costly if you need to drive every day. This also holds true if you cover a lot of miles on your typical work day commute. If this is the case, leasing or buying your own vehicle is more economical in the long run.
Carpooling is the sharing of car journeys so that more than one person travels in a car, and prevents the need for others to have to drive to a location themselves. A sign encouraging carpooling during the gas shortage resulting from the 1973 oil crisis.