http://youtu.be/pYVuYcfaP5Q

This video made me laugh, so I thought you might enjoy it, too. It’s basically an unpaid ad for a new start-up called Zimride, which provides “non-creepy hitchhiking for New York residents.”

Do you know I once hitchhiked to Binghamton, New York from somewhere in New Jersey. I was utterly terrified but we did get picked up by a nice truck driver. Luckily. I had some wild experiences hitchhiking in England but I will save that story for another time.

Well, with Zimride, you don’t have to stick your thumb out while standing on the side of the road like we used to do on Martha’s Vineyard in the seventies. It’s way too social media savvy for that. They’re billing themselves as the  hipster way to travel and they’re saying it’s the cheapest way to travel directly from Brooklyn to DC and other East Coast cities.

I hope they realize that the word hipster is verboten in Brooklyn now.

Interesting, if you’re a driver, Zimride is a way to make money driving your own car. You can sell seats. What a concept.

Here’s how Zimride works: You pick up rides online or using mobile. The average seat from NY to DC is $25 on Zimride.com, so a driver picking up extra passengers can make $150 on a round trip.

Zimride, which is the largest ridesharing company in the U.S. (how many are there, really?) launches in New York City today. With the launch in New York, it’s the first time this new form of transportation is available for NY and DC residents.

From the video, you can see that Zimride is a fun loving start-up from San Francisco. But they’re serious, too, about this new way of thinking about travel from city to city. What do you think?