Rideshares

Rideshares or Ride sharing or Carpooling or Ridesurfing (not to be confused with CarSharing) is simply people cosolidating automobile trips by riding in one car, usually using a message board either real or online. This differs from hitchhiking in that the people involved coordinate the ride before-hand agreeing when and where to meet and how to share the costs. Ridesharing is safe and both cheaper and more environmentally friendly than riding alone. Rideshares are most practical on trips between large cities.

There is a proposal for adding a feature called Ridesurfing in CouchSurfing. Check it out!

Resources by Country/Region
See Survey of CarPooling services

RideSurfing on CouchSurfing.com
The CouchSurfing system may be exploited to allow people to coordinate ride sharing. There is a proposal for adding a Ridesurfing in CouchSurfing, help in making it real if you like. There is also a ride sharing group for this purpose but a more sophisticated system is possible. In the future it could even be combined with GPS, cellphones and always-on internet in order to have a more organized way of hitchhiking.

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