I tried it out the other day, and actually found a ride! Not the mention Jason from ridejoy poked me right away for feedback. They're really friendly, and seem attentive! Best of luck :)
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We've had a few of these types of things up here in America's hat, they seem to end up sued/legislated out of existence by the various transport groups. I know a few of the student unions ended up taking their rideshare boards offline. Shame, they were handy.
I made a ridesharing application(http://www.ridezap.com) this summer! Sadly it hasn't really caught on among my friends.
I really hope this takes off, I feel like there is a true hole for ridesharing in the US. I feel like this is a good application and I feel that they are making rapid progress(I saw large improvements in just a week!). It needs a little more polish and they should be able to catch up with ZimRide(http://www.zimride.com).
In the UK there's liftshare.com, although I think they do a lot of their business via companies wanting to reduce their carbon footprint by introducing car-sharing schemes for their employees.
Yeah, we've seen people take the enterprise rideshare approach and while that's great way to generate revenue, we're focused on building a company for the long term that really facilitates rideshare to anywhere for anyone.
I'm also wondering what laws their citing. There was a case in Canada that had to do with public transit laws but I'm curious to know what rules the US has about this.
Let us specify destinations in terms of Airports. I put in SFO and I got an awkward address instead. Using this for rides to and from airports would be godly, since parking there is often overpriced.
By awkward address, you mean "International Terminal G (EMB), 275 S Airport Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94080, USA"? Just checking. We'll add support for place names at some point. Thanks!
Completion could need some work, though. Maybe it's just me, but I'd expect that clicking on one of the origins/destinations when they pop up would select it and quit the dropdown (normal combobox behavior).
There's a bunch of those services in Germany, too. Then again, I think car sharing has been a bit popular in Europe in general, as cars per capita might be a bit lower, gas prices are higher and not everybody has a car suited for longer routes.
when i went to Germany, someone hooked me on to gelegenheit. i thought it was the shit ever since. i would use google translate for the site, then call the drivers asking if they spoke english. They all said 'a little bit' even though 98% were fluent, which must be some kind of German modesty thing. The site seems to have clones or sister sites in most western europe countries as well. I would have expected people in various Eastern european countries to shun these services on safety grounds, so I am surprised that it is big in Slovenia.
People do give rides all the time :) we're helping people form carpools, in the legal sense. Millions of carpools already happen each day among people with shared destination/interests, and the insurance laws around that are pretty well established and reasonable. (Note that we cap payments at AAA carpool reimbursement rates. You can't start a taxi/limo service.)
As far as safety goes, the key is you're not going to message anyone you feel uncomfortable with. If you login, you can see their photo, age range, work/education history, # of fb connections, and mutual friends. Many people rideshare on Craigslist right now anonymously, and there haven't even been any crazy stories there.
Of course. Modern startup thinking seems to be "we'll get a fireproof door once the wood one has burnt down".
Only with this one it's not likely to be your possessions like it is with AirBnB, more likely to be you. Imagine the driver taking you down a quiet road to where his friends happen to be waiting.
Also, since you're taking passangers, do you need a taxi licence or liability insurance as a driver taking passangers for payment?
In the ancestral environment, violence was the main cause of death you could do something about and cars didn't exist. The result is evolved instincts that are wildly irrational in the modern environment.
If you actually stop and think about it for a minute, the probability of the driver taking it into his head to murder you is likely negligible compared to the probability of being killed in a plain ordinary road accident, despite - or because of - the fact that we have no instinctive fear of the latter.
I lived in Germany from 2009 - 2010 and ridesharing is absolutely huge. I haven't heard of anything happening. I probably used the ridesharing website from 2 to 20x per month (didn't have a car but traveled a lot). This is the one I used: http://mfg24.spiegel.de (the "spiegel" part is actually a major German publication but the rideshare itself is powered by another company). I'm sure chrome will translate it for all you non-germans ;) It's been around for 10+ years
I think it's been around even before the 'net, which is why several sites basically have the same name ("Mitfahrzentrale"). Student organisations and similar groups used to do it for their members or event participants.
I'd say that hitch-hiking isn't that more common than in other countries, but sharing a car for a long trip is. (And yes, dear Americans, I know, a few hundred miles really isn't long…)
I'm sure this service would also be an awesome way to make friends. Everyone's a stranger before you get to know them. So maybe it's worth meeting up before getting into a cross-country car ride with them.
It would become known if anything like that happened methinks. Most likely it would be all over the news as a "Don't meet strangers from the internets! The internets are dangerous omg!"
