Yesterday Uber and Lyft two were almost as soon as the foot announced will launch a carpool service message

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Summary: Coincidentally, yesterday, Uber and Lyft two almost the foot of the announcement will launch a carpool service message, Uber in its blog that they will be in the next week in a small range of car carpool service UberPool (8.15 will be a larger area after the test), and Lyft then pushed

Coincidentally, yesterday, Uber and Lyft two almost the foot of the announcement will be launched car carpool service news, Uber said in his blog that they will be in the next week in a small range of car carpool service UberPool (after 8.15 will be a larger range of public testing), and Lyft also subsequently launched a carpool service Lyft Line.

According to the description, both services are basically similar: users who want to carpool can choose their own pick-up and drop-off points, and the system will send a car to share with strangers within five minutes-according to Lyft's statistics, 90% of the Lyft users will be within five minutes a nearby passenger and he wants to go in the same direction, it is this result provides the basic possibility for carpool.

And the most attractive service to users than the cost of their travel costs, the cost of UberX itself has been cheaper than the 40%, and carpool services can save users a maximum of 40%, as for Lyft, it gives a 60% discount possibility. Most interestingly, both promised that if the user could not be matched within five minutes, he would still have only one person in the car and the system would still offer him a discount.

Besides being good for the passengers, the driver should also like it because it gives them a longer distance to go and earn more.

Before Uber also in Beijing launched a carpool platform for the people, but it is more like the main public good idea of AA payment.

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