Do car-sharing schemes work in the States?

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Here in the DC area, they are everywhere. I don't drive my car during rush hour, so I can't comment on them first hand.

But that won't stop me from posting.

As Wolf says, HOV lanes are awesome if you have a full car and can take one. They generally move without congestion.

We also have informal lines of people, called slugs, who line up at central locations downtown and ride with random strangers who pull up to the curb and drive them to their drop off point in the suburbs. That allows the single driver to use the HOV lanes by picking up living breathing human bodies before they get to the HOV lanes. The slugs get a free ride most of the way into town in the morning, and a free ride most of the way home at night. It's a win win situation. I'm amazed that nobody has been raped or murdered by crazies. It seems to work extremely well.