Waze takes on the ride-sharing market with new carpooling app

2015-07-08T17:26:00-04:00

RideWith is a spinoff of the Google-owned Israeli traffic app Waze, and is designed to help users meet up with a driver who has a similar commute. In the interest of time, money and potentially the environment, passengers can pay drivers who are already taking similar routes. [...] Drivers using RideWith are only allowed to make two trips a day — intended to be the commute to and from work — and therefore wouldn’t be able to use the app for any notable revenue.

One ridesharing app to rule them all: Ridescout moves into the competitive world of rideshare

2014-08-14T12:43:00-04:00

Ridescout, the “Kayak of ground transportation” that aggregates over 300 rideshare services, announced today that it will integrate carpooling into its app. This move comes on the heels of recent announcements from Uber and Lyft, which on the same day earlier this month revealed they would gradually begin to allow their users to carpool. While ridesharing has up to this point been a mostly single-user service, Ridescout’s announcement reinforces a general trend toward multi-user integration.

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Waze takes on the ride-sharing market with new carpooling app

One ridesharing app to rule them all: Ridescout moves into the competitive world of rideshare