Google`s Waze expands carpooling service throughout US
(World News Science)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google will begin offering its pay-to-carpool service throughout the U.S., an effort to reduce the commute-time congestion that its popular Waze navigation app is designed to avoid. The expansion announced Wednesday builds upon a carpooling system that Waze began testing two years ago in northern California and Israel before gradually extending it into Brazil and parts of 12 other states. Now it will be available to anyone in the U.S. Drivers willing to give someone a ride for a small fee to cover some of their costs for gas and other expenses need only Waze`s app on their phone. Anyone willing to pay a few bucks to hitch a ride will need to install a different Waze app...