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...Greenlee arrives at the station, leaves the key to the Honda in a security box and walks to his train. Soon Annemarie Meike and Bill Glassley, a married couple who live in Oakland and commute to Pleasanton, pick up the key and get into the Honda to drive to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where both are scientists. In the past they drove the entire way from home to their jobs--60 miles round-trip--because the bus service connecting BART to the lab was slow and unreliable. Now they take BART to Pleasanton and, for $60 a month...
...Glassley pulls into the lab and drives the car to a natural-gas pump. Drivers are responsible for filling the tank up, even though they may not drive the same car their next time out. There's a lost-and-found for stuff left in the cars: sunglasses, cell phones, coffee mugs. (One guy forgot his baby's car seat.) A website allows sharers at the lab to reserve cars for errand running (at 10[cents] a mile) and to arrange car pools back to the BART station...
...NOON. Glassley and Meike hop into the Honda--which is labeled with an F--to grab a fast lunch. I ask about the annoyance of the other drivers' fiddling with the radio presets. "That's turned out to be a great thing," Meike says. "Every time I get into the car, I discover a new station." While she talks, she dumps hot sauce onto a taco and feeds it to Glassley, taking care not to muss up the seat for the next driver...
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