One way to reduce traffic, pollution and gas costs is to share a car on the most common trips. There are times when you just need to talk to a few co-workers to do this and take turns driving the car. But if we do not know anyone who makes the same journey as us, the network can be of great help. And you may be interested in knowing how Waze Carpool works in Spain.
Waze Carpool is a tool launched by the Waze navigation application to connect drivers and travelers for carpooling.
The process is fairly simple. If you have the application downloaded on your smartphone, you will only have to plan your trip as a driver or as a passenger. The app will take care of finding other people who want to make the same trip as you, so that you can get in touch. In this way, you can agree to make the trip together, something that is cheaper and more ecological.
WHAT IS CARPOOLING
If you are interested in this possibility of carpooling, you are probably wondering what carpooling is . Behind this name in English is the idea of traveling several people in the same car, thus sharing the expenses generated in the trip.
Carpooling is the idea behind apps like Blablacar , but also behind what we’ve done all our lives to agree with a friend to go places.
Sometimes this concept is confused with that of carsharing . But what we understand by carsharing is renting a car that belongs to someone else to use it at different times, while carpooling implies that the driver and travelers make the trip together.
HOW TO SCHEDULE A RIDE ON WAZE
If you want to learn how to schedule a ride in Waze , you will find that the process is different if you do it as a traveler or as a driver. If you are a traveler and you are not going to drive, you must enter the details of the trip you want to do in shared mode in the application. Later, the app will put you in contact with other users who have a car and are going to make a trip similar to yours.
In the event that you are a driver, you will have to define your routines, your travel hours and the seats you have in your car. Then you can add travelers, between people you find in the application itself or even between users you invite manually. The application itself will be in charge of managing the payments. Now you only have to agree on a collection point.
HOW TO CARPOOL WITH WAZE IN SPAIN
If you wonder how to carpool with Waze in Spain, the reality is that you will have to wait a bit, since it is not available in our country at the moment. At the moment, this Waze carpool option can only be used in the US, Mexico, Brazil and Israel. Google has confirmed its intentions to launch it in other parts of the world, but we cannot find it here at the moment.
Therefore, if you want to do carpooling in our country you will have to use another of the tools of this type that are available. The most popular is undoubtedly Blabacar, although it is true that its use is more widespread for long trips than for example to go to work. But most likely soon you will have Waze Carpool available in our country, which can be a great advance.
