Zip cars will reduce the number of cars on the road, the number of cars manufactured and the number
of miles driven.
Hear the founder talk about zipcars and mesh netwroks on youtube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tzZB6RbXsY
Robin Chase rose to fame by founding Zipcar, the world's biggest car-sharing business, but that was
one of her smaller ideas. In this presentation she travels much farther, contemplating road-pricing
schemes that will shake up our driving habits and a no-fee mesh network as sprawling as the United
States Interstate highway system. But how could you build a free wireless system that vast and
pervasive? Chase finds the answer in a few short lines from The Graduate. And it has nothing to do with
plastic.
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