I rented a Tesla Model 3 from some dude on Turo, the leading car-share service
A few blocks down the hill from my home in Berkeley, Calif., lives a guy named Ethan Dang. We'd never met before, but for two days he gave me his $45,000 Tesla Model 3 to drive around.
We met up through a car-rental app called Turo. The San Francisco-based company is colloquially known as the Airbnb of car rentals. It works like this: One individual owns a car. Another wants to rent it. Turo puts them together.
In the inelegant language of Silicon Valley, that's known as a peer-to-peer platform. Turo is growing fast - it says it's more than doubled its inventory over the last two years, to about 400,000 vehicles. And so far it appears to be riding out a consolidation in the app-based alternative car-rental business.
Beyond a couple of hitches with account setup, my Turo experience was smooth. After you create an account on Turo, you go to the
