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Modo carshare has just announced that they're now allowing people with learners licenses to use their carshare service.
Calling them "Green Members", drivers 16 years and older who are learning how to drive will now be able to do so in a shared vehicle. They'll have access to their fleet of over 600 cars, trucks, SUVs and vans.
Here's how it works:
"Green Members will join under a Principal Member’s account, who must be a member-owner of the co- op, 25 or older, with a full license. Tying the Green Member to a Principal Member – with some conditions and an increased damage deposit – will help mitigate any increased risk to the co-op or its members. Like all drivers with an L, they must be accompanied by an adult with a full license. Under Modo’s Green Member Program, this can be the Principal Member, or a "qualified supervisor" as per ICBC's rules and regulations."
The increased damage deposit is $1,500, and the conditions include the primary member having to pay up to $2,500 if the learner is involved in an accident and they're at fault.
They're claiming to be the first carsharing company in North America to allow people learning to drive to access their vehicles, which is fitting as they're actually a user-owned co-op, much like MEC. They're amalgamated under the Cooperative Association Act of B.C., and in the decades they've been running they've always operated more for social good than profits.
They're "a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise" who describe themselves as being "substantively different than a profit-seeking corporation".
Learn more HERE.
