Waze offers carpool rides like Lyft and Uber, but for way less

The carpool lane looks so alluring, but as a lone driver it's very much off limits. Unless you pick someone up to ride along with you.

That's what the aptly named Waze Carpool service hopes to do: pair riders and drivers looking to share a ride and whiz through traffic — or at least slog through it a bit faster.

On Wednesday, Google-owned navigation app Waze finally expanded its Carpool service throughout the U.S. The low-cost ride-sharing option first rolled out in 2016 in a few U.S. cities and later opened up in California, Massachusetts, Texas, Washington, Illinois, and Nevada. Now it's in all 50 states. Carpool is also available in Brazil and Israel (Waze started as an Israeli company). Read more...