I wonder what proportion of drivers will be actually heading somewhere, as opposed to the primary purpose of the journey being to make money from Waze Carpool.
Waze Carpool
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Re: Waze Carpool
#302Why isn't there a service that says: 1. Hey this is my route every morning. 2. Lets you see people's routes and "join". This doesn't need to be a centralized service. People could organize things among themselves. There are carpooling sites, but it requires a critical mass to be useful.
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#303In Seattle or other cities where traffic congestion is such a problem, I'd take someone for free if I could drive in the carpool lanes. I can even imagine someone who could be paid for just being a body in the car by someone really well off.
Are carpool lanes that common? I've heard of their existence, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one anywhere (Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France or Finland, that is).
And how are they enforced?
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#304But will it actually get used? I like the idea but I am not sure if I would actually WANT a stranger in my car when the time actually comes.
I don't know where you live but in my country (France), carpooling is very popular. Waze being a very popular application here, it's very probable that they manage to take on BlaBlaCar which basicly has a monopoly when it comes to carpooling here.
> BlaBlaCar which basicly has a monopoly when it comes to carpooling here
Wait, BlaBlaCar is actually a brand and not a placeholder for "some car[pooling] company"? Because blabla is how we write "blah blah" in dutch (n.b. "bla bla" also works in dutch).
Edit: Ok so it's a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blablacar
Re: Waze Carpool
#305A few other similar services http://libretaxi.org most of it open source except dependency on telegram http://www.twogo.com by SAP For young adults hopskipdrive.com ridezum.com zemcar.com One thing to note is that there are two apps you need from waze.The waze app is for driver of the carpool.Carpool app is for the rider.
Offtopic: that first sentence sounds very weird, I think your syntax got messed up. Use two enters to get a blank line in between. You can't do something on the next line (this is not real markdown). See: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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#306I gave up the Waze app for GPS as it drained my iphone battery to quickly. I switched over to the default maps app on the iphone 7.
Surely having a charging wire in your car and connecting it before a long drive is not that hard? It's the main way my Samsung phone charges, I usually go full blast playing internet radio, running Waze etc. and when I arrive my phone is 100% charged. I always wondered why there isn't there a charging standard for phone mounts/cradles just like the old cordless phones where placing it in the cradle made two metallic…
You can get wireless charging car cradles
https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-qi-wireless-car-phone...
Re: Waze Carpool
#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What happens when the commuter I pick up vomits in my car? Guess you have to use some of that hard earned ridesharing money to deal with the occasional downside such as this. It's not just free money, and anyone that thinks in terms ot cash for ride and that's the only things to think of is naive. You've thought it these scenarios, other people should too, and take that into account when deciding if it's worth it.…
> > What happens if I get picked up by a person who changes their mind about where they're going? > Let them out at the first feasible opportunity, as long as there is some infrastructure (or they accept the location). Let them deal with finding transport from there. Nope, gp was talking about getting picked up by someone who changes mind. You can't let them out, it's their car.
Oh. Drop the passenger of at an appropriate interim location, and you're forced to fund part or all of their subsequent trip accommodations to their original destination.
Re: Waze Carpool
#308I think it would be better if you gave drivers/customers complete control over everything.
Let drivers choose their pick up area (like a circle on a map), drop off area, price, pickup time (15-minute window), whitelist/blacklist customers, etc.
Then riders can see what drivers are offering and decide if it's worth it. Riders could also post requests that drivers could bid for.
See here for an example of what I mean: https://github.com/kaseyb002/EgglerPool
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#309Earlier quoted context omitted.
Now that I think about it, Amazon would be perfect to do it. I can't remember the last Amazon package I got that wasn't on of their contract, on-demand drivers. Amazon already gives them packages and the optimal route to take and a pretty good estimate of how long that'll take the driver. They could use that and have the driver pick up/drop off people along their route and know a pretty good time frame the driver wou…
> I can't remember the last Amazon package I got that wasn't on of their contract, on-demand drivers. At the moment, there are 10 Amazon packages not yet delivered to my house - 4 haven't updated the computer with their shipping information, 2 UPS, 1 USPS, 2 AMZL US, and 1 from a Foreign Post. > Amazon already gives them packages and the optimal route Optimized not Optimal route.
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#310Earlier quoted context omitted.
These are implementation details tied to low funding and car oriented infrastructure. For example a bus route becomes significantly faster when it has dedicated lanes and doesn't need to share the lane with cars.
> These are implementation details tied to low funding and car oriented infrastructure No, it’s fundamental to the technology. The deadweight cost of the driver mandates a minimum economic size. If you have a big bus, you need a route with lots of people. My long and skinny Cupertino —> Mountain View 6AM/9PM will ne inefficient, or the system will be inefficient—no other options with big buses. A derogatory compariso…
Low ridership routes are a necessary part of a complete public transit system. The reluctance to subsidize low ridership routes is part of what creates a poor mass transit system. The result in a limited public transit system that doesn't match people's needs and people turn to cars. This is exactly what I'm talking about.