Whats a carpool?

Question

Whats a carpool?

Answer 1

Two or more people in the car.

Answer 2

A carpool is when a group of people(more than2) get together to drive somewhere and most of the time the other drivers pitch in to help with gas

Answer 3

it is a few people sharing a ride to work

Answer 4

that's where cars go for a swim...lol (everyone else was being so serious)

Answer 5

people take turns driving everyone in the pool...

you get 4 people who all work together, person 1 drives monday, person 2 drives tuesday, person 3 drives wed...etc

or you can rotate weekly, however it works for everyone...

Answer 6

car pool is when 2 or more people share rides back and forth..like you would do it for a week and the next would do it for the following week and so on.

Answer 7

A carpool is when people ride together to work, school etc.

Answer 8

Carpooling (also known as ride-sharing, lift-sharing), is shared use of a car, in particular for commuting to work, often by people who each have a car but travel together to save costs and in the interest of other socio-environmental benefits mentioned below. There are sometimes special facilities for carpoolers, including designated pick-up points and high-occupancy vehicle lanes which are also at times opened up to designated cars with multiple riders.

Carpool projects have been around in fairly structured form going back to the mid-1970s, and in recent years have begun to make much more extensive use of the Internet and software support systems. With the recent advent of mobile phones and SMS, there is a push to integrate these technologies into more flexible systems on the internet.

Answer 9

if you go to school with in one car every day of the week but take trun choosing or using adifferent car each day or week thats a carpool

Answer 10

a carpool is a car who picks up people and has a certain destination

Answer 11

It means to share a ride with someone else. For example, two or more people who go to the same school or same work and live close together can take turns driving the group around.

Answer 12

Carpooling is an environmentally friendly way to get to and from work.   Several people share the drive.  You see it in the Dagwood and Blondie cartoon all the time.  Some carpools have you drive a week at a time, or the same days every week, different ways.  Or sometimes one person doesn't drive, but pays for gas for the driver.  As well as being better for the environment than separate cars, it's a way to get to know some coworkers, or to get some work done while riding to work while some one else drives.  The downside is a person who is never on time, tying up the carpool for everyone else.  Don't be that inconsiderate jerk!

Parents often carpool to get their kids to and from school, sports, activities.  One parent drives several kids, and they take turns.

Answer 13

Carpooling (also known as ride-sharing, lift-sharing), is shared use of a car, in particular for commuting to work, often by people who each have a car but travel together to save costs and in the interest of other socio-environmental benefits mentioned below. There are sometimes special facilities for carpoolers, including designated pick-up points and high-occupancy vehicle lanes which are also at times opened up to designated cars with multiple riders.

Carpool projects have been around in fairly structured form going back to the mid-1970s, and in recent years have begun to make much more extensive use of the Internet and software support systems. With the recent advent of mobile phones and SMS, there is a push to integrate these technologies into more flexible systems on the internet

Advantages

Carpool participants save money by sharing the cost of driving one car. Driving one car saves on gasoline, tolls, parking and vehicle maintenance.

Carpools decongest roads.

Carpools reduce pollution and carbon dioxide emissions thereby reducing global warming.

Carpools reduces driving-related stress for participants who are not driving on a specific ride. The participants take turns sharing their vehicles and driving with others.

Carpools may provide social connections in an increasingly disconnected society. New online carpooling services are offering new ways to make social connections through discussion sites and custom ridesharing services.

Some larger carpools offer "sweeper services" of late pick-up options for people having to stay longer at work. One form of backup is an arrangement with a local taxi company.

There are designated carpool lanes on highways (usually called High-Occupancy Vehicle, or HOV, lanes), which may make travel faster. Some businesses offer premier parking for carpoolers, and finding a spot to park one car is always easier than finding a spot for more.

In the "dynamic ridesharing" concept the system does one-to-one matching automatically, and all that both, the driver and passenger have to do is accept the match done by the system

Disadvantages

Drivers carry the additional burden of potential legal action from passengers in case of an accident.

When carpooling, it becomes difficult to run errands on the way to and from the common locations.

Tends to be complicated to reliably organize and is difficult to maintain, due to changing travel patterns and needs. One approach to remedy this problem has been implemented by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; signs mark locations outside of their metro stops and large bus stations where drivers can share rides with other passengers in an orderly fashion.[1

Answer 14

yep a car pool is ppl sharing a car to go to work or other places to save money and the enviroment

Answer 15

going in one car to save the environment ;)