Witkar
Sign in to savethumb|Transport minister Irene Vorrink and alderman Brautigam make the first trip in a Witkar on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam on 21 March 1974. The Witkar (Dutch, ) was one of the first technology-based carsharing projects in the world. It is the invention of Dutch social inventor and politician Luud Schimmelpennink, an industrial designer and at the time Amsterdam city councillor. The project was opened by minister Irene Vorrink on 21 March 1974.
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thumb|Transport minister Irene Vorrink and alderman Brautigam make the first trip in a Witkar on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam on 21 March 1974. The Witkar (Dutch, ) was one of the first technology-based carsharing projects in the world. It is the invention of Dutch social inventor and politician Luud Schimmelpennink, an industrial designer and at the time Amsterdam city councillor. The project was opened by minister Irene Vorrink on 21 March 1974.
The first actual Witkar project took place in Amsterdam between 1974 and 1986. While it provided daily service for more than 4,000 registered users over those years, the project never got beyond the limited demonstration phase due to a lack of support by government.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Witkar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.