PickupPal – an innovative rideshare site
Tags: carpooling, PickupPal, rideshare, social networking, Transportation
One of our readers sent us a tip about PickupPal, a globally-available and free carpooling website. PickupPal hopes to reduce carbon emissions, combat road traffic congestion, fight high gas prices and enable people to connect and improve the environment by facilitating ridesharing.
PickupPal is a simple concept and easy to use. First, both passengers and drivers log into the website and say where they are and where they are going. PickupPal then matches up passengers and drivers who are going the same way. Then, PickupPal notifies drivers of potential pickups. The driver can make an offer to a passenger based on how much they want to charge for a ride. The site then informs passengers that they have been offered rices. The passenger reviews the offers and chooses the driver with whom … Continue Reading
