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...