{"id":3855,"date":"2010-12-14T22:11:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T22:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2010-12-14T22:11:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T22:11:05","slug":"p2p_car_sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3855","title":{"rendered":"P2P car sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/techblog\/2010\/12\/google-invests-in-p2p-car-sharing\/\">Chris Nuttall:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Google is investing in a start-up that hopes to shake up the vehicle rental industry and change the way people view their cars.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.RelayRides.com\">RelayRides.com<\/a>, which  launches in San Francisco on Tuesday after a successful pilot programme in Boston, says it is the world&#8217;s first operational peer-to-peer car-sharing service.<br \/>\nThe Series A round announced with Google Ventures and Valley VC firm August Capital on Tuesday is expected to help it to $5m in total funding to date.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/techblog\/2010\/12\/google-invests-in-p2p-car-sharing\/\">Chris Nuttall:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Google is investing in a start-up that hopes to shake up the vehicle rental industry and change the way people view their cars.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.RelayRides.com\">RelayRides.com<\/a>, which  launches in San Francisco on Tuesday after a successful pilot programme in Boston, says it is the world&#8217;s first operational peer-to-peer car-sharing service.<br \/>\nThe Series A round announced with Google Ventures and Valley VC firm August Capital on Tuesday is expected to help it to $5m in total funding to date.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,32,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}