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It's generally a good advice. However, how do you do with companies like car2go etc, which are fully digital?



Print whatever they send. Print it: it is worth the effort: you will not convince the police with a phone but you might with a paper.

Digital is OK until you run out of battery or anyone refuses to accept your phone as proof.

When you hire a car you are just hiring a several-thousand-dollars item from a stranger. Either you take it seriously (and have a paper trail, hence) or you do not understand the risks.

It is all about risks.


I recently read of some hapless tourists who rented a car, parted it at a trailhead in the Santa Cruz mountains and when they got back from their hike it wouldn't start because it couldn't contact the mothership.

Seriously should be a felony to posses a device designed to remotely shut down an automobile.


Don't get it unless you can get a paper receipt on their letterhead from their office. Just not worth it.


You should still get the records in the webapp / mobile app, and possibly (I don't know this service) e-mail receipts?


Can't it issue digital signatures that have to be accepted by the police and government as evidence?




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