Tap Your Phone, and a Designated Driver Takes You and Your Car Home

A similar service is commonly used in Japan. You drive to a bar to meet work colleagues, get tanked, and call the service. A car with two people shows up. One of them drives you home, the other drives your car home. The legal, financial, and social penalties of getting a DUI in Japan are much more calamitous than in the US (or were when I lived there).

I always thought that it would be a good idea to bring to the US if only you could figure out a way to work with insurers. Glad someone worked it out.

This is an addon on top of Luxe. So you're paying them $15 (for the parking) and an additional $25 (for the drive home).

In places like SF, you'd be better of Ubering back and forth. Even a cab would probably be cheaper.

What do insurance companies make of this?

A long while back a company called "Good Fellas" landed in locally: phone them and they'll send a driver out to drive your car and your drunken self home. It took absurd amounts of time for insurers to catch on and realize that this mitigates risk - I phoned my insurer and they responded with the obviously brain-dead "that person isn't a registered driver and therefore your car won't be insured." Some now allow valets for drunk people.

Is this a problem if you use something like Luxe? Have they figured it out?

One of my core childhood friends created exactly this service in our hometown with a foldable motorscooter. He had a lot of customers (and an amazing array of regulars that kept him busy at night). I used to drive for him sometimes. The thing about his service was that he made a pretty good amount of money charging people ten dollars. Caveats: This was around the turn of the millennium, our hometown is rather small(ish) university town, and he didn't have an app, just a cellphone.

Now, there are some problems with this business model that I won't give away for free here (because this version is very expensive for some reason). They will discover them soon enough, and it may be enough to shut them down.

This already exists in Amsterdam for years, it's called Scooter Bob here because the guy arrives on a little foldable scooter and Bob was the name of the government's anti DUI campaign.

The trip is slightly more expensive than an Uber, but because you drive the way there yourself and only use it for the return it is still quite cost effective. Especially when parking in a free spot such as the office parking garage (which is where I use it most)

How about the security of Luxe drivers? These people are skating at night trying to get to the car as fast as possible. Somebody is going to get hurt eventually.

In Korea Town in Los Angeles, you can call a double taxi. One driver comes and drives you and your car home, while the other car follows to take the 1st driver home.