Ubers plan to get more people into fewer cars, Travis Kalanick

Uber didn t start out with grand ambitions to cut congestion and pollution. But as the company took off, cofounder Travis Kalanick wondered if there was a way to get people using Uber along the same routes to share rides, reducing costs and carbon footprint along the way. The result: uberPOOL, the company s carpooling service, which in its first eight months took 7. 9 million miles off the roads and 1, 400 metric tons of carbon dioxide out of the air in Los Angeles. Now, Kalanick says carpooling could work f