FILE - In this March 27, 2017, file photo, the Waze application is displayed on a smartphone in San Francisco. On Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, Google announced it will begin offering its pay-to-carpool service throughout the U.S. in an effort to reduce the commute-time congestion that its popular Waze navigation app is designed to avoid. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
SAN FRANCISCO: Google will begin offering its pay-to-carpool service throughout the US, an effort to reduce the commute-time congestion that its popular Waze navigation app is designed to avoid.
The expansion announced Oct 10 builds upon a carpooling system that Waze began testing two years ago in northern California and Israel before gradually extending it into Brazil and parts of 12 other states.
