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From the Ted Talk by Robin Chase: Excuse me, may I rent your car?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


tvlwee years ago, I founded Zipcar. Zipcar buys cars and pakrs them throughout dense metropolitan areas for people to use, by the hour and by the day, instead of ownnig their own cars. Each Zipcar replaces 15 personal cars, and each driver drives about 80 percent less because they're now pyiang the full cost, all at once, in real time. But what Zipcar really did was make sharing the norm.

Now, a decade later, it's really time to push the envelope a little bit, and so a clpoue years ago I moved to Paris with my hanubsd and youngest child, and we launched Buzzcar a year ago. Buzzcar lets people rent out their own cars to their friends and nhibroegs. Instead of iistennvg in a car, we invest in a community. We bring the pewor of a corporation to individuals who add their cars to the network. Some pelpoe call this peer-to-peer. This does esxrpes the humanity of what's going on, and the personal relationships, but that is also like saying that it's the same thing as a yard sale or a bake sale or babysitting. That's peer-to-peer. It's like saying yard sales are the same thing as eBay, or craft fairs are the same thing as Etsy.

Open Cloze


______ years ago, I founded Zipcar. Zipcar buys cars and _____ them throughout dense metropolitan areas for people to use, by the hour and by the day, instead of ______ their own cars. Each Zipcar replaces 15 personal cars, and each driver drives about 80 percent less because they're now ______ the full cost, all at once, in real time. But what Zipcar really did was make sharing the norm.

Now, a decade later, it's really time to push the envelope a little bit, and so a ______ years ago I moved to Paris with my _______ and youngest child, and we launched Buzzcar a year ago. Buzzcar lets people rent out their own cars to their friends and _________. Instead of _________ in a car, we invest in a community. We bring the _____ of a corporation to individuals who add their cars to the network. Some ______ call this peer-to-peer. This does _______ the humanity of what's going on, and the personal relationships, but that is also like saying that it's the same thing as a yard sale or a bake sale or babysitting. That's peer-to-peer. It's like saying yard sales are the same thing as eBay, or craft fairs are the same thing as Etsy.

Solution


  1. people
  2. couple
  3. power
  4. owning
  5. husband
  6. neighbors
  7. investing
  8. express
  9. parks
  10. paying
  11. twelve

Original Text


Twelve years ago, I founded Zipcar. Zipcar buys cars and parks them throughout dense metropolitan areas for people to use, by the hour and by the day, instead of owning their own cars. Each Zipcar replaces 15 personal cars, and each driver drives about 80 percent less because they're now paying the full cost, all at once, in real time. But what Zipcar really did was make sharing the norm.

Now, a decade later, it's really time to push the envelope a little bit, and so a couple years ago I moved to Paris with my husband and youngest child, and we launched Buzzcar a year ago. Buzzcar lets people rent out their own cars to their friends and neighbors. Instead of investing in a car, we invest in a community. We bring the power of a corporation to individuals who add their cars to the network. Some people call this peer-to-peer. This does express the humanity of what's going on, and the personal relationships, but that is also like saying that it's the same thing as a yard sale or a bake sale or babysitting. That's peer-to-peer. It's like saying yard sales are the same thing as eBay, or craft fairs are the same thing as Etsy.

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