Zipcar "Zipcard" Key Card, 2010
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In the 2000s, a growing understanding of the inconveniences and hardships of owning a car--cost, parking, environmental effects and effects on city design--made car rejection popular. These attitudes, combined with new technologies, made new industries like carshares viable. This card, when waved over a windshield-mounted radio transceiver, unlocks cars in the popular Zipcar carsharing program.
In the 2000s, a growing understanding of the inconveniences and hardships of owning a car--cost, parking, environmental effects and effects on city design--made car rejection popular. These attitudes, combined with new technologies, made new industries like carshares viable. This card, when waved over a windshield-mounted radio transceiver, unlocks cars in the popular Zipcar carsharing program.
Artifact
Card key
Date Made
2010
On Exhibit
at Henry Ford Museum in Driving America
Object ID
2011.412.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Maggie Parker.
Material
Plastic
Color
Gray (Color)
White (Color)
Green
Dimensions
Height : 2.0625 in
Width: 3.3125 in
Inscriptions
Printed obverse: zipcard / 953957 / 866.4ZIPCAR Printed in part on reverse: zip basics / 1. This Zipcard unlocks and locks your Zipcar [...]
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