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it was mostly for work (I was home for less than 1 month including weekends) & some vacations (~15-20 rentals for vacations). My car was also stolen and wreaked and due to the auto shortage, it took insurance 3 months to get me a new car (meaning, 3 months of rentals - each for 1 week term).

I used to essentially be a consultant (left that life behind this year). My title was Junior Partner / Assoc Director.

I'd on one hand advice executives (public, private & gov) on strategy (usually focused on tech but also growth, finance etc.) and work with on-the-ground staff to figure out what was going on & implement changes (meaning tons of travel between my home base - Toronto, to on-site - all over US / CA, to engagement HQs - usually NYC / Washington / Chicago / Seattle / Nashville etc.)

I also took tons of (very-short) vacations in-between because I used to get super burnt-out (eg. my last day was Dec 31, and I ended up working at a client from Dec 5th to Jan 1st and flew back on the 1st to start my new job on the 2nd) and I love driving so I'd rent cars and drive all over (eg. Toronto to NYC to DC or Seattle to Vancouver to Whistler to Kamloops to Edmonton to Calgary, Toronto to Halifax etc.)

I used to joke that in general, any car I rented would come back with at least 1k km if I had it for more than 2 - 3 days)

Fun life (I'm just turning 29), enjoyed my job (tons of perks like I earned points for a lifetime on Air Canada and Marriott - my family used to joke that I'd treat my home as a hotel as I spent more time in hotels than at home), but I was grossly underpaid (I gave up a role that paid me 2x what I would have made for this) and I ended up on the wrong side of the politics at the consultancy (big 4) so I left on my terms (for a much better role) before I'd have been forced to.

Not sure why you think charging is not the problem.

I am a very heavy user of rentals (300+ rentals last year, 200+ the year before - max status on National / Enterprise, Hertz and Avis) and I've rented an EV (Tesla Model 3) exactly once.

Most users don't have the time to think about places to charge and even more so, to bring it back at 80%

Not to mention, outside of major metropolitan areas (US and Canada), charging infrastructure is spotty at best (esp. if you don't plan for it).

This makes charging an added hurdle that takes away from the experience.

If you're a business user - you don't do it because you don't have the time and if you're a leisure user - you don't do it because your vacation time is valuable and spending time at charging stations that are usually out of the way is not ideal time spent for an expensive vacation)

I didn't see anyone give the following features so here goes:

1. Ability to integrate traffic light info (how long they're gonna be red for, how fast do I need to drive to get a green light, how fast should I drive to get as many constant greens as possible, integrate this into adaptive cruse control) - Audis have this feature, but I should not have to buy an Audi just for this.

2. Police info (integrate radar detectors, radio for police freq and Waze etc. directly into the infotainment, heads up display or dash)

3. Integrate CarPlay / Android Auto navigation into heads up display / dash (currently only Honda / Acura does this as far as I know)

4. Play media (Netflix and other popular apps) via wifi when the car is in park mode

EDIT:

5. Add ability to integrate dashcams (and SD cards)

6. Add Toll auto-payment apps

Hey! I live in Toronto and I'd love to meetup and discuss Canny if you are free / available.

(I'm not currently looking for a job but I would like to discuss about your journey and get some insights as I'm looking into bootstrapping my startup. I followed Canny since it was posted on Product Hunt).

Thanks. I've opened a support ticket.

Hello, I think I found a bug with your organizations.

I own skmexyz.visualstudio.com (under sk@skme.xyz account) and I tried to transfer it to skmexyz@skmexyz.onmicrosoft.com and now:

1. Both accounts are not admins so I can't delete / modify it (it asks me to contact the administrator when I am obviously the administrator)

2. It claims that it's being managed by Default Directory on Azure but I can't appear do anything with it.

I would really appreciate some help with it.

Thanks! We were extremely excited about the news and reading the rejection email later was heart breaking.

I just got an invite to Keybase. Is there a reason why

1. it's invite based?

2. it supports very few external services that you can verify (I can't figure out a way to verify LinkedIn or Gitlab for instance) ?