Google’s Waze expands carpooling service throughout US


  • TECH
  • Friday, 12 Oct 2018

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.  

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