Car sharing startup RelayRides acquires Wheelz for its unlocking technology

Samantha Shankman

May 14th, 2013 at 1:53 PM EDT

Photo Credit: A car with the RelayRides magnet in central San Francisco in August 2011. Flickr / Michael Andersen

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The manual transfer of keys would be a major barrier to RelayRides’ growth while its competition like Zipcar and Getaround make it easy for users to independently unlock cars.

With a still small, but growing, market around people that want to rent out their personal cars to their neighbors, some consolidation seemed inevitable. On Tuesday startup RelayRides, which was one o

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