WhipCar is like a hyperlocal version of Streetcar. You can effectively borrow your neighbours’ cars. A lot of people who own cars are not using them ALL of the time. According to the DVLA, the UK currently has 29 million registered passenger cars on the road, many of which are used for less than an hour a day. This peer-to-peer service, the first of its kind the world, has so much potential to reduce the number of cars on the road and make use of the resources already there more efficient.
WhipCar lets you rent cars from on your own street for hours, days and even weeks, all the while you’re fully insured. It’s a free service and a decent (and easy!) way for car owners to make some extra cash.
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Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
