Carpooling helps people commute easily. Just imagine going to work with less hassle in transportation because the car or vehicle is so accessible in your most convenient time and place. Right now, Google is already having plans about giving Uber and Lyft a good competition in the near future.
According to a post via CNet, Waze - -a Google-owned navigation application -- is testing carpooling services in San Francisco. This new service of Google is testing this carpooling service to a number of workers that goes around 25,000 people working in the Bay Area.
The application Waze has 700,000 users in San Francisco Bay Area. It intends to give these people the ability to get each other well and eventually help the environment in the process. The workplaces that will take part in the trial are the following: Adobe, Wallmart eCommerce and the University of California, San Francisco. The newly created carpool application will be an application in which workers can flag their interest in hitch a ride. Waze is already designed to be used by drivers to notify speed traps and traffic incidents like crashes.
According to The Verge, the new carpool service is by invitation only. It means that it will be only used by a select group of employers and employees in the aforementioned area. Waze added that the process of arranging a ride is not easy because it takes two different applications: First, the person uses Waze to locate a driver; second, drivers locate the person. The coordination, communication and payment are handled by the application already, the source said.
In addition, the advanced mapping capabilities of Waze are of great help because it easily locates people; hence, it makes the carpooling process easier and more efficient. This Google's effort goes to show that the company is risking so much as it knows that this is needed by the people and users.
