How big is carpooling market?

3 rutvik2601 3 7/17/2025, 6:37:25 PM

Is there still a demand of carpool as there are no apps that competes with Blablacar globally in their recent round company was valued over 3 Billion. What would we an ideal carpool app that can solve long distance travel problems?

Comments (3)

sloaken · 5m ago

I think it is a great way to save money and help the environment.

The big problem I see is security / trust. But you have that risk with rideshare.

siamese_puff · 1h ago

We should spend more time and energy improving pedestrian and cycling infrastructure and stop the growth of urban sprawl which makes you incorrectly think you need to solve this problem. A great book on this topic - Carmageddon

ls-a · 27m ago

No I want a car

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How big is carpooling market?

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