So there I was, minding my own business having dinner with friends the other night in Miami, when the Greenberg brothers, Howard and Steve, started to hock me about car2go, a new hassle-free way of getting around town without the cost of car ownership. I wasn’t interested. “Let me eat my dinner,” I mumbled under my breath. They were so excited about this new concept that is arriving in cities all over the world that they wouldn’t stop talking about it. “It’s perfect for DigiDame,” insisted Howard. “The concept just makes sense,” added Steve.

I looked into it this morning and they are right. The concept of jumping into a car located steps away from your front door whenever you need one, paying only for the time in use, and leaving it in an appropriate parking spot when you are done, is very appealing. You just leave the car, you don’t pay. It is going to save us a lot of money and is good for the environment. Be careful however, that you park the car in a legal spot.

Just think of the convenience. You no longer have to pay for gas, insurance, leases, repairs and monthly garage rates. Whew, just think of the money you are going to save. There is a very small registration fee, around $10.00. and you become part of the system. Here is where the wiz bang digital fun begins. “You walk up to the distinctive blue-and-white car2go, press and hold your membership card to the car reader on the windshield, check it over and go. Your credit card will only be billed for the amount of time you use the car. Most cities are 38 cents per minute, $13.99 per hour, $72.99 per day and then special out-of-state rates. Car2go takes care of refueling, cleaning, and other services.

Now that I have told you about it, you are going to see car2go everywhere. That is exactly what happened to me.

I know that many readers are now saying that their automobiles are like family members. They are not going to give them up. I feel the same way. But there comes a day when the kids grow up, go off to school, get married and never return home. The pets move on to the great afterlife. You finish mourning and then you get the sense of liberation. Costly possessions take on a whole new meaning.

Make sure you make note of car2go. You never thought you would be reading a book on an electronic device, make phone calls on a mobile telephone or talk face-to-face with people across the ocean from the computer in your living room. This is the next step too.