Motor Mouth: Cadillac shows how car sharing should be done
(World News Science)

The future is about mobility. Pride in car ownership is dead, the young have no affinity for anything four-wheeled and lending our cars out to strangers nilly-willy will soon be the automotive equivalent of Airbnb. So say the pundits. As Motor Mouth detailed last October 21, the numbers don’t bear out these cries of revolution. Despite more than a decade of growth, there are only (as of 2014) 5,048 shared cars in Canada and but a further 19,115 in the United States. Even more importantly, these `shared` cars have been woefully ineffective at their primary goal, namely getting consumers to eschew private ownership of automobiles so that we might reduce traffic and, more importantly,...