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This is scientific American sixty seconds science. I'm Evelyn Lamb. Got a minute?
Big city
dwellers1 who need a car for less than a day can rent Zipcars by the hour. Zipcar's ads emphasize environmentalism and community. But a recent study shows most Zipcar users primarily consider their own convenience and cost rather than being green or part of a user community. The study is in the Journal of Consumer Research.
The
investigation2 is part of more general research about what's called access-based consumption, basically very short-term
rental3, which has grown due to economic recession and the
cramped4 quarters of big cities.
In the interview with Zipcar users, researchers found that they tend to behave selfishly and don't worry about how their treatment of the cars affects the next guy. As one user interviewed for the study put it, quo" you can just beat the hell out of it, it's not your car."
And since users assume everyone else is behaving the same way, they appreciate the rules that the company does try to enforce about, for example, cleanliness. Not surprisingly, these attitudes don't
engender5 a feeling of community because the condition of your temporary car depends on the users who cared the least about it.
Thanks for the minute for scientific American sixty seconds. I'm Evelyn Lamb.
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