{"id":1000953,"date":"2007-11-03T07:24:17","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T12:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/travel\/2007\/11\/03\/zipcar-expands-insurance-coverage\/"},"modified":"2007-11-03T07:24:17","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T12:24:17","slug":"zipcar-expands-insurance-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/travel\/2007\/11\/03\/zipcar-expands-insurance-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"ZipCar expands Insurance Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zipcar and Flexcar have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flexcar.com\/Default.aspx?tabid=501\">agreed to merge<\/a>. This is exactly the sort of merger that I think ought to be prohibited by antitrust laws: two competitors doing exactly the same thing, even if they are both still Tiddlywink operations by Fortune 500 standards.  I&#8217;d much rather see them compete in the marketplace than collude. However there will be at least one immediate benefit for ZipCar customers: more insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Effective immediately, Zipcar is raising their coverage to $300,000 per incident for members 21 and over instead of the state mandated minimum. It will also soon be possible to rent Zipcars in Flexcar&#8217;s cities: Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland and Atlanta. Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/travel\/2007\/10\/21\/zipless-car\/\">if they could only find the cars they think they have in Brooklyn<\/a>, everything would be hunky dory. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zipcar and Flexcar have agreed to merge. This is exactly the sort of merger that I think ought to be prohibited by antitrust laws: two competitors doing exactly the same thing, even if they are both still Tiddlywink operations by Fortune 500 standards. I&#8217;d much rather see them compete in the marketplace than collude. However [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}