An Uber South Africa spokesperson claimed every day that the platform could reduce the traffic in Johannesburg by around 800k vehicles if it can launch its carpooling product in the city. Alon Lits, Uber's head of Sub-Saharan Africa stated “Imagine we can put 2 or 3 or 4 people in the same car…the number is over one million cars are going into Johannesburg yesterday. I think it’s 1.8 million. Imagine if we could reduce that 800,000…we’ve run the numbers and we think we can do that with a product like UberPOOL”. There is no official word yet on the UberPOOL product launching in South Africa.
An Uber South Africa spokesperson claimed yesterday that the platform could reduce the traffic in Johannesburg by around 800k vehicles if it can launch its carpooling product in the city. Alon Lits, Uber's head of Sub-Saharan Africa stated “Imagine we can put 2 or 3 or 4 people in the same car…the number is over one million cars are going into Johannesburg every day. I think it’s 1.8 million. Imagine if we could reduce that 800,000…we’ve run the numbers and we think we can do that with a product like UberPOOL”. There is no official word yet on the UberPOOL product launching in South Africa.