---
title: "Drive Wire: Google’s New Ride-Sharing App Targets Google-backed Uber"
description: "This seems contradictory."
date: "2016-05-19"
modified: "2016-05-19"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/3568/drive-wire-googles-new-ride-sharing-app-targets-google-backed-uber"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Google"
  - "Uber"
  - "Waze"
---

# Drive Wire: Google’s New Ride-Sharing App Targets Google-backed Uber

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Following the trend, Google has launched “Waze Rider,” a new ride-sharing service based on and powered by its crowd-sourced navigation app “Waze.” Waze rider will use the same crowd-sourcing concept to connect drivers with riders going to the same area. Just enter your destination in the Waze app and it connects you with a driver, which Google is calling a “Wazer” because of course it is. The fee is mileage-based, and currently, the driver gets a 100% of the fee. That’s interesting, because Google is also an investor in Uber, and this *definitely* overlaps. Waze Rider is currently available only in limited areas.

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