Google prepares the most cheap "killer" Uber and Lyft

The Google IT giant plans to compete with the Uber and Lyft taxi and Lyft online services in the United States, already this fall, having launched its own search for fellow travelers in San Francisco, reports The Wall Street Journal with reference to a source familiar with the situation.

According to the publication, the search for fellow travelers will be carried out using the Israeli WAZE application, which Google acquired in 2013. This application paves optimal movement routes based on the recommendations of other drivers. At the same time, WAZE, unlike Uber and Lyft, relies on the fact that the driver and passengers go in the same direction (by analogy with the French service BlaBlaCar).

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The company plan to make prices so low that the drivers do not have an incentive to earn extra money by taxi drivers. As expected, passengers will pay only the cost of gasoline spent on the trip, as well as add a small amount from above.

In May, Google launched a pilot program for the search for auto boards via WAZe near her offices in California. The program could register any local WAZe user, and about 25,000 employees of a number of large companies of San Francisco, including Google, Adobe and the Wal-Mart retailer itself, RIA Novosti were registered with passengers. The participants in the experiment were limited to two trips per day to work and back home.
At the stage of the pilot project, the travel tariff was approximately half -dollar per 1 km, which is much cheaper than tariffs for Uber or Lyft. At first, Google promises not to charge drivers a percentage of their earnings.

As you know, Google and Uber have long been partnerships. So, in 2013, the Internet giant invested $ 258 million in a developing mobile service. But since 2015, the clash of their interests began to appear more and more clearly . The other day it became known that David Dramond, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of Alphabet Corporation, which now includes Google, left the Uber Board of Directors due to the conflict of interests, Kommersant reported.