Originally Posted by
dc2005b
Recently it seems Hertz on Demand has ceased operation in all of DC. All vehicles are unavailable and a call to customer service confirms they are no longer operating in Washington, DC.
The few times I used them there was a problem on each transaction so I will not miss them at all but I wonder who will take over all their parking spaces?
Huh - that's interesting. As early as maybe 2 or 3 weeks ago they still had on demand cars at DCA. As for parking spaces, most of them are probably leased, so they will just become normal parking spaces again unless the owner of the parking lot leases that spot out to another carshare service like ZipCar or Enterprise
I think that Hertz missed the ball on carshare because of a combination of their age requirement and trying to do things other carshares weren't (i.e. one ways, FCARs). A decent amount of the Zipcar/Enterprise customers are college students, but Hertz almost entirely excludes this population with their age requirement and no "waiver" for 18-20 yo college students. These college students will most likely continue on with ZipCar or Enterprise post graduation.
Also Hertz simply doesn't have that many cars around like Zipcar does, which brings the convenience factor down quite a bit.