(Got)你的车库里有一辆额外的汽车吗？好吧，为什么不从中赚点钱。互联网(Internet)催生了大量新的初创公司，它们正在改变我们对家庭、汽车和小工具的看法。例如，如果您还没有听说过Airbnb ，这是一种将您的(Airbnb)公寓或房屋(apartment or home)出租给世界上任何人的直接方式。
那么为什么不把你的车也租出去呢？我个人有两辆车停在车库里，因为我们有两个小孩，而且总是开着小型货车。如果我能以某种方式使用我的汽车来赚钱，那就太棒了。幸运的是，有很多选择。
在本文中，我将提到六个相当新的网站，它们基本上都允许您将汽车用作出租车或将自己变成一个人的汽车租赁公司(car agency)。两者都对我很有吸引力，但是，这些站点和服务中的大多数都太新了，以至于目前大多数城市都不存在。不过，它们正在快速扩张，所以这是一件好事。
优步
你可能最近在新闻中听说过Uber ，因为他们的几名司机在(Uber)旧金山和纽约(San Francisco and New York)的机场被捕。这不是因为司机不好，而是因为出租车大堂正在努力阻止他们的业务被这些新创业公司抢走。
优步(Uber)基本上是一家允许任何人成为司机（经过背景调查和其他检查后）使用自己的汽车接送人的公司。使用优步(Uber)，它会更加专业和优雅，您必须拥有一辆相当不错的黑色轿车或 SUV(sedan or SUV)才能成为司机。我们说的是宝马(BMW)、奔驰(Mercedes)、 捷豹(Jaguar)、林肯城车(Lincoln Town Car)、凯迪拉克(Cadillac)等。
考虑到它是一个高档客户，作为优步司机(Uber driver)，你可以赚很多钱。从达拉斯机场(Dallas airport)到我家的车程为 34 分钟，一辆Uber黑车要花大约 120 美元。对于黑色SUV，你要花 180 美元。一天来几次这样的旅行，你可以赚到很多钱。
边车
接下来的两家公司Sidecar和Lyft与(Lyft)Uber基本相同，但没有所有的优雅和昂贵的品味。Sidecar让人们可以找到其他恰好是注册Sidecar司机的当地人。您在手机上提出请求，有人(phone and someone)会来接您。
Sidecar的有趣之处在于，人们支付他们认为值得乘坐的费用。没有固定成本或费率(cost or rate)。其次，客户给你打分，你也可以给客户打分。您可以使用您拥有的任何汽车，并且当您实际驾驶客户时，它们还提供保险。
来福车
Lyft是与(Lyft)Sidecar类似的另一种按需拼车服务。Lyft还像 Sidecar 一样进行背景调查和 DMV 检查(background check and DMV checks)，乘客和司机也像(Sidecar and passengers)Sidecar一样互相评分。Sidecar还通过与新司机进行实际(Sidecar)的面对面会议(in-person meeting)来提高安全性，以确保他们非常适合。
我发现Lyft 网站(Lyft website)有点缺乏有关服务的信息和一般介绍。然而，Lyft有一些独特的方式让拼车变得更有趣。例如，司机会在汽车前部留一个代表微笑的(smile and passengers)粉红色小胡子(pink mustache)，乘客应该像对待朋友一样给司机一个拳头。据报道，在旧金山(San Francisco)，人们打车的时薪高达 35 美元。
四处转转
Getaround 是一种点对点汽车共享(car sharing)或本地汽车租赁服务。您基本上会列出您的汽车图片和可用日期，当有人想要租用它时会与您联系。您可以决定是否租给特定的人，当汽车被租用时，它是完全保险的。
您可以租用您拥有的任何汽车，如果您的汽车更新且更昂贵，您将赚更多的钱。您可以选择列出您的汽车的价格，但它们确实会根据您的汽车的品牌、型号和年份(model and year)为您提供默认值。
接力赛
RelayRides与Getaround类似，因为它可以让您将汽车直接出租给个人。同样(Again)，您可以设置汽车的价格和可用性。您还可以免费列出您的汽车，您也可以使用Getaround。在RelayRides 上(RelayRides)，您可以获得汽车标价的 75%。Getaround没有在他们的网站上提到这个百分比。
这些服务的好处是他们验证司机，甚至强迫他们连接到他们的Facebook 帐户(Facebook account)，这样你就可以找出这个人的真实身份。这是确保您的汽车没有被小偷或疯子驾驶的好方法。
飞行汽车
FlightCar是一家让我非常兴奋的新公司。我和我的家人每年至少去印度(India)一次，持续一个多月，我们总是不得不依靠有人来接我们，因为将车停在机场几周或几个月实在太贵了。FlightCar旨在解决这个问题。
现在，当您去机场时，您只需将汽车送到FlightCar，他们会免费将您送到您的航站楼。然后他们会把你的车出租给飞进城里的人，你就可以赚钱了！这是一个绝妙的主意。当然，您的汽车已完全投保，您的汽车在归还给您之前会经过清洗和清洁。好的！
因此，如果他们无所事事，那么这些是您可以开始从额外的汽车中赚取一些现金的六种方法。我个人想使用一些服务，但由于我的城市还不支持，我将不得不等待。如果您的城市得到支持，那么您很幸运。在评论中让我们知道您通过汽车赚钱的任何其他方式。享受！
6 Ways to Earn Cash Off a Spare Car
Got an extra сar lаying arоund in your garage? Well, why not earn some money off of it. The Internet has givеn rise to a ton of new startups that are changing the way we think about our homes, cars and gadgets. For exаmple, if you haven’t heard of Airbnb, it’s a direct way to rent out your apartment or home to anyone in the world.
So why not rent out your car too? I personally have two cars sitting in my garage that never get used because we have two little kids and always end up driving the minivan. It would be awesome if I could use my car in some way to make money. Luckily, there are quite a few options.
In this article, I’m going to mention six fairly new sites that all basically allow you to either use your car as a taxi or turn yourself into a one-person rental car agency. Both are quite appealing to me, however, most of these sites and services are so new that they don’t exist in most cities at this point. They are expanding fast, though, so that’s a good thing.
Uber
You might have heard of Uber in the news lately as a couple of their drivers were arrested at airports in San Francisco and New York. This was not because of bad drivers, but because the taxi lobbies are trying to fight to prevent their business from being taken by these new startups.
Uber is basically a company that allows anyone to become a driver (after a background-check and other checks) using their own car to pick and drop off people. With Uber, it’s a bit more professional and classy and you have to own a fairly nice black sedan or SUV to become a driver. We’re talking BMW, Mercedes, Jaguar, Lincoln Town Car, Cadillac, etc.
You can earn a good amount of money as an Uber driver considering it’s an upscale clientele. A 34-minute ride from the Dallas airport to my home would cost me about ~$120 for an Uber black car. For a black SUV, you’re looking at $180. A couple of trips like that in a day and you can make yourself some good money.
Sidecar
The next two companies, Sidecar and Lyft, are basically the same as Uber, but without all the classiness and expensive tastes. Sidecar lets people find other local people who happen to be registered Sidecar drivers. You put in a request on your phone and someone will come pick you up.
What’s interesting about Sidecar is that people pay however much they think the ride was worth. There is no fixed cost or rate. Secondly, the customer rates you and you also can rate the customer. You can use whatever car you have and they also provide insurance when you are actually driving a customer.
Lyft
Lyft is another on-demand ride sharing service like Sidecar. Lyft also does a background check and DMV checks like Sidecar and passengers and drivers rate each other like Sidecar too. Sidecar also increases safety by making doing an actual in-person meeting with new drivers to make sure they are a good fit.
I found the Lyft website to be a little lacking in information and general presentation about the services. However, Lyft has some unique ways of making ride-sharing more fun. For example, drivers put a pink mustache on the front of the car that represents a smile and passengers are supposed to give drivers a fistbump like you would a friend. In San Francisco, people have reported earning up to $35 an hour giving rides.
Getaround
Getaround is a peer-to-peer car sharing or local car rental service. You basically list your car with pictures and the dates of availability and you’ll be contacted when someone wants to rent it. You can decide whether to rent to a particular person or not and when the car is rented, it’s fully insured.
You can rent out any car that you have and will make more money if your car is newer and more expensive. You can pick the price to list your car, though they do give you default values based on the make, model and year of your car.
RelayRides
RelayRides is similar to Getaround in that it lets you rent out your car to individuals directly. Again, you can set the price and the availability of your car. You can also list your car for free, which you can do with Getaround also. On RelayRides, you get 75% of your car’s listed price. Getaround doesn’t mention the percentage on their website.
What’s good about these services is that they verify drivers and even force them to connect to their Facebook account, so you can find out who the person really is. It’s a good way to make sure your car is not being driven by a thief or crazy person.
FlightCar
FlightCar is one new company that has really excited me. My family and I go to India at least once a year for more than a month and we always have to rely on someone dropping us off and picking us up because it’s simply too expensive to leave the car at the airport for weeks or months. FlightCar aims to solve that problem.
Now when you go to the airport, you just drop off your car to FlightCar and they will drop you off at your terminal for free. Then they’ll rent out your car to people flying into the city and you can make money! It’s a brilliant idea. Of course, your car is fully insured and your car gets washed and cleaned before they return it back to you. Nice!
So those are six ways you can start earning some cash from your extra cars if they are sitting around doing nothing. I would personally like to use a couple of the services, but because my city is not supported yet, I’ll have to wait. If your city is supported, then you’re lucky. Let us know any other way you earn money from your car in the comments. Enjoy!
