New carpooling service being tested by Waze in San Francisco
Crowd-sourced traffic and navigation app Waze is testing a new car pooling feature that it hopes will lead to less congested roads. Waze, which is owned by Google, has partnered with companies in the San Francisco Bay Area that have a total of 25,000 employees. They will download a free app allowing them to start or join a current carpool with other Waze users that have the same or similar commute each morning and evening.
If the test is successful and Google expands it nationally, this could turn out to be a decent source of revenue for Waze (and in turn, Google). While their are other carpool apps available, none of them have as many members as Waze does, and only Waze has the backing of Google behind it.
source: Waze via SFGate, AndroidCentral
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