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ABC News: Facebook's New Twist on Transportation
abcnews.go.com — Article discusses how Facebook was the 'missing ingredient' for making carpooling work. Unlike MySpace or Craigslist, Facebook's numerous forms of verification give users confidence that Facebook accounts represent real people. Will this new service reverse the steady decline in carpooling that has taken place over the last 20 years?
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- notmike721, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1sounds like a cool idea, so hippie
- Ahambone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The fact that Zimride works seamlessly with Facebook makes it an *awesome* way to get a safe carpool together. I've tried both of these, and Zimride turned out to be the easier one to use.
http://apps.facebook.com/carpool - JazLive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Hopefully the carpools are made up of actual owners of vehicles. The object is to get more vehicle owners to car pool not more riders in a car.
There was a VA Medical Center that made raze reviews about participants that signed up for public transportation. The program was to target employees to give up driving personal owned vehicles for public transportation; instead, lots of patients, volunteers and employees who did not own cars were over 87% of the participants. Later, the participants that took FREE rides, were given the convenience of paying for public transportation. The participant list diminished.
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