Maybe you’re exactly unlike me and are an outgoing person who likes to meet new people with whom you have very little in common with.
Or maybe you just need someone to make you legal in the carpool lane.
Or maybe, just maybe, you are a person of nefarious designs who sees an easy mark readily available on the iPod you just mugged from some guy. You’re wanting to upgrade from simple assault and theft to grand theft auto and you want that auto brought to you.
With gas prices costing an arm and a leg these days, people have found that carpooling is a great way to cut down on costs. Trouble is, it’s not always that easy to find a group of people that are traveling to your general destination.
Thankfully, with the iPhone’s location aware capabilities and the release of Carticipate, you can now make that task easier!Carticipate helps you find other’s in the area (who also are Carticipate users) so you can find a buddy to carpool with. Simply drop in where you are going and when you want to go there and you will find others in your area that are on that same route so you can work out some traveling options.
Sounds to me like picking up an e-hitchhiker, with the same probability of getting killed at a rest stop as the old movie plot.
Stalkers, rapists and pedophiles will LOVE “Carticipate”. One suggestion: buy an old Crown Vic police cruiser, and get one with the cage left in it…
This app could get Apple sued out if it’s shorts, and maybe that would be a good thing.
My buddy used to commute over the Bay Bridge in a similar fashion. He’d drive to the relatively safe part of Oakland (Rockridge), take thirty minutes to find a place to park, then walk over to a specific underpass where people would line up to ride with carpool-hungry drivers into San Francisco.
About once a week, he said, somebody in the car would make the lame joke about how any one of them could be an axe-murderer. Nervous laughs, then they’d all put their noses back in their Starbucks.