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Robin Chase

Robin Chase

American entrepreneur

Jun 26, 2026

2:49
Frederic Harthier was CEO of Clear Road, who will discuss the challenges of introducing novel road use, uh, technologies, and then Robin Chase, the co-founder of Zipcar.
2:59
Thank you, and I loved your introduction because I feel like the reason I'm enthralled with this topic is gas taxes were great when we had no technology.
3:10
Now we have some technology.
3:11
We can do much more fine-tuning, and what is the way we can get to user fees that actually reflect costs? So technology in cars.
3:21
This is a timeline of the first electronic road tolls, so 1986 in Norway.
3:28
1989, the US, they started in New Orleans and Dallas.
3:32
1991, the PikePass in Oklahoma was the first that was full speed, as in you didn't have to slow down, and it really was the beginning of E-ZPass.

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22:30
I'll invite Robin to start the question.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
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1:14
Twelve, 12 years ago, I founded Zipcar.
1:18
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.
1:29
Each Zipcar replaces 15 personal cars, and each driver drives about 80% less because they're now paying the full costs all at once in real time.
1:40
But what Zipcar really did was make sharing the norm.
1:45
Now, a decade later, it's really time to push the envelope a little bit.
1:49
And so a couple years ago, I moved to Paris with my husband and youngest child, and, uh, we launched BuzzCar a year ago.

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speaker_2ADVERTISER
7:55
For the stay.
11:52
Tell us reasons you use your cell phone camera.
11:56
I have to say that as I have aged, I now use it as a magnifier.
12:02
So I take a PIC screen cap and then I open it up.
12:07
I wanted you to compare how often you would take a photograph when you had to have a photograph, a camera, and go take it someplace and get it developed and whatever, the number of photos you took then versus the number of photos you take now.
12:20
And the use cases are so wildly unimaginable beforehand, like we didn't even cross our mind when we first got cameras in our cell phones.
12:28
I thought to myself, that's nice, but whatever.
12:31
And now it's an integral part of what I do.

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