Why Google thinks ride-sharing via Waze Carpool is a worthy investment
 

Why Google thinks ride-sharing via Waze Carpool is a worthy investment
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Google has long provided your entry point and guided your journey around the web. Soon, Google parent Alphabet may help with every part of your journey on the road.

Alphabet is reportedly launching a ride-sharing business that coordinates carpools. The service is being incorporated as an additional feature in Google's Waze app, which provides driving directions **t unlike Google Maps but also incorporates real-time, community-sourced traffic information.*

Called Waze Carpool, the program is only available in the San Francisco Bay Area and will begin piloting with 25,000 employees of local tech companies. That's just a fraction of the more than 700,000 Waze users in the Bay Area, according to the Wall Street Journal which first reported the news.* Read more...

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