Photo: Zimride.com Home Page
In today's day and age, social networking is the latest craze. Another craze is carpooling to save the environment (be green!). Now, combine them, and you have the next thing: Zimride.
If you ever want to use the carpool lane to get to class faster or simply just want some company while on the ride to school, then Zimride may be for you. You can now offer than empty passenger seat to someone else that is in need of it, and you also gain the advantage of carpool parking on campus and save some money by splitting the costs between the two of you. If you're the person needing a ride, then you can easily find someone that would be willing to help you out with this social networking tool.
When you create a profile on the Zimride site, you can add little details such as location, smoking preferences, music volumes, and the days you need a ride to school.
Zimride is not limited to CSULB. It is a countrywide carpooling community that has over 300,000 carpoolers since it's launch one year ago. Zimride has also partnered with Zipcar and has also established relationships with universities such as CSULB, UCLA, and UCSB (along with many others) in the effort to "build a more sustainable transportation system," as Zimride calls it.
Sign up now for free with your CSULB email address at Zimride.com.
UPDATE: One of the representatives at Zimride emailed me and wanted to clarify that CSULB has it's own Zimride community page, which can be found here - http://csulb.edu/zimride/
Thanks Tessa!
