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Welsh city rolls out contactless car rental system

Thursday, September 2, 2010

The city of Cardiff, Wales is launching City Car Club’s contactless smart card-based car rental program. In the £120,000 project, members will be issued smart cards to unlock ten low-emission vehicles located in the city center.

Once inside the car, the member can retrieve the keys from a storage box using a special pin number and away they go.

City Car Club is currently running the same service in a number of UK cities including London, Bath, Bristol and Edinburgh, according to squidcard.com.

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