If you liked the idea of the Car2go service we profiled a few weeks back, Smart fortwos dispensable for rent by the minute with and some pretty fancy astronomical station apps to help you find them, but maybe you wanted to drive existent a little bit bigger, BMW has you covered. Well, assuming "you" are German or at least living in Germany. The company has launched its own car sharing service it calls DriveNow. This one is billed as a "premium" -- though above all none of the company's truly premium models will be offered. That said, the Minis and 1 Series autos that make up the initial fleet are hardly low-rent, and we'd be utterly shocked if the upcoming i3 didn't get added to the mix down the road too.



Usage details are still a little bit scarce, but we do know that each car will have a dash-mounted Dell Streak through which users will log in after liberate the car doors with an RFID-equipped members card or even a suitably endowed drivers license. Renting a car costs 29 cents per minute, up to €14.90 (about $21) per hour, and there will be 300 cars ready at first control gate in the Munich area. If you're not in Munich it's tough cookies for now, but BMW is hoping to have one million members planetary


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