Method for Vehicle Rental, Electronic Device, and Computer Storage Medium

A method for vehicle rental, comprising:

• obtaining, at an electronic device, a task of at least one of vehicle delivery and vehicle equipment, wherein the task is indicative of a current location of a rented vehicle, a state of the rented vehicle, a pickup location, and information of a user renting the vehicle;
• determining a correlation between the current location of the rented vehicle and a rental outlet associated with the electronic device;
• determining whether the state of the rented vehicle is a ready state;
• sending a request for a route to the pickup location, wherein the request is used for an associated user of the electronic device to drive the rented vehicle in the ready state to the pickup location;
• and
• sending to the user a message indicating that the rented vehicle has arrived in response to determining that the rented vehicle arrives at the pickup location.

An electronic device, comprising:

• a memory configured to store one or more computer programs;
• and
• a processor coupled with the memory and configured to execute the one or more programs to cause the electronic device to:
• receive a vehicle rental request, wherein the vehicle rental request is at least indicative of a pickup location and a rental time of a user;
• determine whether there exists a vehicle to-be-rented matched with the vehicle rental request at a rental outlet in response to determining that there is no vehicle to-be-rented matched with the vehicle rental request at the pickup location, wherein the rental outlet is pre-selected by the user or determined based on a predetermined range from the pickup location;
• determine the vehicle to-be-rented at the rental outlet as a rented vehicle in response to determining that there is the vehicle to-be-rented at the rental outlet and
• send a task of vehicle delivery to an electronic device associated with the rental outlet, wherein the task is indicative of a location of the rented vehicle, the pickup location, and the rental time, such that the rented vehicle in a ready state can be driven by an associated user of the electronic device to the pickup location.