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Google will launch a competitor to Uber and Lyft

Google запустит конкурента Uber и LyftGoogle is planning to launch in the fall in San Francisco online search service for passengers.

The company in may, has launched a pilot project of an online service, but only for its employees and about the headquarters in California. The program allows using the application Waze to look for travel companions.

Unlike Uber and Lyft, Waze allows drivers to find only those customers with whom they are on the way. To reduce the probability of part-time drivers as taxi drivers in Google intend installing low tariffs.

It is noted that every local resident can register at Waze as the driver. But its clientele is limited to 25 000 passengers. It is understood that this staff will be located in the vicinity of San Francisco firms: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Adobe. To visit you only twice a day to and from work.

Google bought the Israeli service Waze in 2013. It can be used to monitor the situation on the road online and to plot the best routes.

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