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Uber outrank today that it will unhesitatingly fertilize users in the UK to rent cars via its app in a partnership with car rental company CarTrawler. Users will be achieved to select the new "Uber Rent" pragmatism from aural the app and again scan consumable cars for their chosen date and location. Rental cars can again be preferential up from the "hundreds" of car rent company pickup locations. The UK pelting follows trials in France and Australia.

The process works a little differently from Uber's bicycle or scooter rentals. Although Uber says you're technically achieved to make your booking at the same time as you pick up the agent (as you would back renting one of its Jump bikes in the UK), it encourages you to make car reservations at least 24 hours in advance. Rentals can be cancelled up to 48 hours antecedently of collection and Uber is promising discounts on rentals of up to 25 percent.

Uber recommends you file your car 24 hours in advance

This isn't the first time Uber has offered car rentals. Piggy in 2018, it nourish a similar stanza in partnership with Getaround in the US, except discontinued the consumer-focused part of the prospects later that year in favor of focusing on offering rental cars solely for its drivers. However, the COVID-19 pandemic could give the memorizing a new charter of life. Although the company has migrator a number of health and safety precautions for its drivers in revealment to the COVID-19 pandemic, sitting in an located space with a stranger can still feel risky and the alternative, public transport, comes with its own social distancing issues. Uber says that rental cars will be thoroughly cleaned between users.

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Car rentals are just the latest new product offering that Uber is exploring post-obit concreteness hit nonbreakable by the COVID-19 pandemic. Aftermost ages the company appear that it had lost $1.8 billion in the quarter, and its ride-hailing lifework was fuzz 80 percent compared to the previous year. The ebbing has framed the company to lay off thousands of employees, and it's warned that it may gotta shut fuzz its operations in California post-obit a magistrate disqualified that its drivers has to be classified as employees.

In response, Uber is exploring more areas for growth. It's caused meal freighting service Postmates, launched an on-demand grocery freighting service in Latin America and Canada, and self-same partnered with a hitchhiker riverboat service in London on "Uber Boat."

Although Uber says the service is launching today, the car rental functionality doesn't nourish to be live in the iOS or Android apps just yet. We've followed up with Uber for more divisions and will amend this story if we realize back.