Uber launches car-pooling for private car owners
Commuting alone in your car to work every day Now you can turn your car into an Uber-pooled-vehicle and ride with fellow commuters headed in the same direction. Uber launched its new initiative uberCOMMUTE for the city that lets drivers of private cars share their ride with other commuters headed in the same direction.
The service will be available between 7 am to 9 pm across the city. With over one thousand six hundred new cars hitting the streets of Bengaluru every day, the traffic congestion in the city has increased nearly threefold today, a problem that the government of Karnataka and the Bangalore traffic police
are working hard to resolve. Car-pooling seems to be the best way to do your bit.Commuters driving their own car need to sign in to the Uber partner app and list out their route.
The app would then display requests from riders who are travelling in the same direction, as well as the costs they will recover from the trip. Car owners can accept or ignore the requests.
If you are a commuter looking an Uber-shared car, the usual cab-booking process will enlist the cars going through the way.