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photo: Daimler AG
This fall Daimler AG brings its carsharing pilot program of car2go to Austin. During this test phase, Daimler will make 200 of its fleet of Smartcars available to a select group of city employees and their families. In 2010 the program will be expanded to all Austinites.
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According to the 2009 Urban Mobility Report, recently published by The Texas Transportation Institute:
Travelers spent one hour less stuck in traffic in 2007 than they did the year before and wasted one gallon less gasoline than the year before. The differences are small, but they represent a rare break in near-constant growth in traffic over [...]

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