Scott McCartney
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3,086 appearances
43 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2017
last heard Dec 2021
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It's a complicated relationship between the rental car companies and Uber and Lyft.
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Clearly lost business at the airport among business travelers who were using Uber and Lyft, but they kind of made up for it by renting cars to drivers.
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So they were actually doing a big business in renting cars to drivers.
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So, you know, there may be fewer drivers renting cars from them on, you know, week or month leases, that kind of thing.
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But I do think that it's clear that people who relied on rideshare in the past and avoided renting a car, now they are going back to renting cars.
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It avoids contact with strangers, right?
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The rental car companies are offering some assurance that the car is clean.
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And you can certainly clean it yourself when you get in it.
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But the point is you don't have to share it with a stranger.
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And so for a lot of people, that's a reasonable safety step.
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And so they would rather have a car to themselves than rideshare.
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You know, I think nobody really knows.
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Some of the analysts I talked to thought that there would be shortages well into next year.
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So we'll just have to see.
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I don't think this is just a summer phenomenon.
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I think this is going to continue throughout 2021, and it may well be 2022 before 2021.
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Things get back to normal.
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The analysts also thought, you know, the days of the $19 a day rental car may be gone too.
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Car rental companies certainly getting smarter about it.
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There's been a lot of consolidation in the business.
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