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Google's self-driving cars cannot take us to work yet but Google is working on a more practical solution for today a better way to carpool Google's Waze app is starting to test a carpooling service in the San Francisco Bay Area millions of people use the navigation app for traffic alerts and warnings about accidents or speed traps along a route but now some drivers in the pilot program will have the option to pick up one writer along their way to work and the app will calculate the best passenger based on start and end points and commute time the one writer would need to download a separate app it's called Waze writer if you jump into a carpool you'll be paying the driver a small fee per mile maybe something like fifty cents a mile to compensate for gas and driving expenses Google purchased ways back in 2013 for 1 billion dollars and with this update Google has now jumped into the ride-sharing business and is merging into obras Lane that's it for this tech news update I'm Bridget Carey and you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet.com slash