Waze Carpool is nothing like using Lyft and Uber &8212; and that&8217;s the point

While heading home in a gray Honda Pilot the other day, I couldn’t help but look down at my phone, trying to follow along on the route my driver was taking me. 

But this wasn’t an Uber or Lyft ride; it was a Waze Carpool, a shared ride option from the Google-owned traffic navigation app that’s been available everywhere Waze works in the U.S. and three other countries (Brazil, Israel, and Mexico) for the past year. Just last month alone, the carpool option hit 550,000 rides globally. As Josh Fried, the head of Waze Carpool, explained at the company's San Francisco offices, the app should provide rides to 1 million people per month by early 2020. In the U.S. in the past year, already 25 million miles were carpool miles.  Read more...