Patent ID: 6636145
Filing Date: 2003-10-21
Classification: G07B,G07C,G07F

Abstract:
A vehicle sharing system for sharing one or more vehicles from a fleet of vehicles among one or more users, comprising:one or more ports at geographically remote locations relative to each other, each port having a user interface terminal for receiving a request from a user for a vehicle from the fleet; a computer system coupled for communicating with the user interface terminal at each port and programmed for processing the request and, in response thereto, for determining a group of vehicles from the fleet which are available to the user at that port, said group may include less than all of the vehicles in the fleet; and a sensing device on each vehicle in the fleet for detecting a parking state of the vehicle and, in response thereto, including the vehicle in the group of available vehicles at one of said one or more ports.