The ride-share giant claims that the program is designed to add no more than eight minutes to a user's ride.
in a series of tweets on Tuesday. He claimed that Uber X Share is designed to add no more than eight minutes to a user's ride, as it will only allow new riders to be picked up if they are headed in the same direction.
Uber announced on Tuesday that its new carpooling option, Uber X Share, would be launching in nine more cities. Here, a shot of an Uber sticker on a car."Our goal is to make Uber a daily use case for people," Macdonald told Yahoo Finance."Every part of transportation is still so broken, and there's huge opportunity for Uber to bring value."
With this expansion of the carpool service, Uber has also dialed back masking requirements for shared rides, with face masks now considered"optional but recommended for all riders and drivers." Riders will also be able to use any available seat in the car, but the company asks that the front seat not be used unless it is necessary to do so.
The decision to reinstate carpooling options in major cities comes at a time when many are grappling with rising costs for many everyday necessities, but it is arriving on the heels of a rise in COVID cases across the U.S. Over the last month and a half, the average daily rate of positive COVID tests has risen from around 5 percent to well over 12 percent, according to data collected by the Mayo Clinic.
With COVID concerns still prevalent for many, Uber noted that the share service will only ever match riders with one extra passenger.
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