Back in October we featured Vancouver's own in our feature.
Founded by Kristoffer Vik Hansen, Josh Andrews and Alexey Indeev, their product is a real time ridesharing platform that provides people with a highly sustainable, community-driven transportation platform for the connected society. In other words: you can make money from carpooling by using their app. Drivers get a $1.00 base fare then $0.35/km driven, so if a rider needs to go over 11 km you'll make about $5 for each rider you bring with you. If you're catching a ride you pay a base $1.50 an then $0.50 for every km you're driven.
It somehow all falls within ICBC regulations, and with carpooling being a thing encouraged by the government already it all seems to be above board. However it remains to be seen how the taxi industry reacts to it.
They did a soft launch in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»today, and they're offering a minimum $50 for the first 200 people who sign up as drivers. Learn more !
The limited drive zone that Spare Rides is launching in
