Uber announced it is piloting a feature in the Bay Area that lets drivers input their destinations to be matched with passengers traveling the same direction.<br />Twice a day, drivers can input a destination and the app locates passengers headed in the same general direction.<br />he most obvious use for this sort of feature would be while driving to and from home, but Uber suggested a few other scenarios, like while running errands.<br />The feature is available to virtually anyone driving with Uber.<br />Drivers just select a saved destination or search for a new destination, and with a destination chosen, the app will automatically find potential riders headed in the same direction.<br />It may sound similar to Uber's carpooling service UberPool — and in some ways, it is — but there are also key differences.<br />UberPool matches multiple passengers on the same general route, whereas this feature matches a driver and passenger on the same route.
