iPhone Rideshare App To Cut 73.6 M Tons of CO2 Annually
In an attempt to save the planet—and possibly just to piss off Canada—the company Mapflow is bringing a ridesharing app to the iPhone. The app is called Avego and Mapflow hopes it will help save the world. Hey, they had me at pissing off the Canadians.
Well, at least one Ontario will get some ridesharing play. Oh snap!
The app works by tracking a user’s driving habits and then matching them up with people looking for rides. It’s kinda like Match.com for potential serial killers and would be victims. Using the GPS-enabled iPhone, the app will track common routes the user takes. The app then notifies the user of potential victims..er, riders. From there the app will suggest a place they can meet. It will also show a picture of the person so you use a little hot-or-not in your decision making.
The neat part is that would be victims don’t actually have to have an iPhone. Which makes sense, since there are only going to be so many people sharing the same route to work. If you limit it to iPhone users, then you limit how many people you can hack up and go all Jeffrey Dahmer on.
If you are anxious to get the app or if you just like watching clocks count down, you can visit the Avego website for more information on its release.
Image: this image is a nod to Gizmodo.com (I’m not worthy!)
Remind me how this is pissing off canadians?
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if only there were rideshare listings for hot chicks to ride on my bike handle bars…sigh…
I fear they will never reach that critical mass of passengers because:
1) people may only attempt it for long, regular journeys (to and from work)
2) after they find a reliable group, they will stick with them.
3) why then let avego take 15% of the cash? Would then just use avego if the driver falls ill.
I think it would be cool, and really creepy if avego tracked all their customers on gps at all times. “We know you are avegoing, we have charged you $$.”
Uhh, i really don’t think people will do this. But maybe… My dad’s buisness cut a buildings co2 emissions by 72 % saving 130,000 tons of co2, along with millions of gallons of water, and this is just ONE system.
Ya humorous references to serial killing, but what have the Canadians done to you? Keeping in mind I read only this installment of serial killer 101
I would hope by 2020 we are all flying in space ships. But it is a great Idea. In Washington DC people pick up others at the bus stops just to use the HOV lanes. I think there is some merrit for this..
@Rupes
because the Canadian government/court shut down a website that promotes ride sharing
http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/11/12/canada-fines-company-for-advocating-carpooling/
“The ridesharing website PickupPal was struck down by a Canadian court in a case brought against them by bus giant Trentway-Wagar. The company took PickupPal to the Highway Transport Board complaining that the ride-matching service fell afoul of the province’s obscenely strict ride-sharing laws which were adopted in the 1970s.”
re: Brad Canadian
I was just poking fun at my previous article on how how Ontario was stopping a ridesharing website due to the most ridiculous rules I have ever seen.
Click the word Canada in the first sentence, all the details are there.