Where Carsharing Meets Ride Hailing

Car rental is growing — in nontraditional sectors. Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) such as Uber, Lyft, and Postmates need drivers, and many of those drivers don’t own cars or choose not to use their cars in a commercial application.

This is especially true in and around large cities such as New York, where parking is expensive and the proliferation of public transit makes car ownership less attractive. As a result, a growing group of entrepreneurs — not from the traditional car rental world — have stepped in to rent vehicles to TNC drivers.