Waze is a popular navigation and crowd-sourced police avoidance tool, but most people probably don’t realize that the app has had a carpooling arm over the past six years. Waze’s business has recently expanded to the point where the Google-owned organization’s carpooling service isn’t as popular as it once was. As a result, the company will discontinue the service to focus on its other products.
Waze’s carpooling service is already available to people in Brazil, Israel, Mexico and the United States. While the feature is discontinued in those countries, users can still use the app for traffic information and navigational tools. Waze data shows people are up 15% more than pre-pandemic, so there’s still plenty of room for the company navigation and infotainment apps.
A Waze spokesperson told TechCrunch that the company want to focus on traffic and clear cities. Waze is also focused on reducing the cost of various mobility solutions and improving safety and availability.
When it started, Waze’s carpooling offered a service that didn’t exist, but that quickly changed as Uber and Lyft show. Then in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic closed offices and led to a dramatic change in how and where people work, reducing their reliance on taxi services. carpooling and carpooling. Everyone is back drive and go to work nowand Uber, Lyft and others have shown that at least part of the market is moving in the opposite direction.
