• Lack of flexibility. Participants of carpool must follow agreed route and time schedule, e.g. travel from A to B at certain time.
• Few participants for certain routes. For less-densely populated areas, matching participants will be a challenge.
• Security related worries. Whether it is justifiable, people still worry about sharing a ride with strangers and/or new acquaintances.

Friend-give-friend-a-ride (FGFAR) is a carpooling scheme with the following salient features to address concerns of carpooling

• Route group. Traditionally carpooling schemes stop when they can find a car, a driver and a few passengers for a route. FGFAR goes further. It will try to find at least 3 cars for a route to form a FGFAR group. Reason for forming a FGFAR group is flexibility in time schedule. With at least 3 cars in a FGFAR group, theoritically there will 3 time schedule for a route, e.g. going back from workplace at 6pm, 7pm or 8pm.
• Friend-give-friend-a-ride. To address security concerns, FGFAR only allows friends(Facebook) and connections(LinkedIn) to share a ride.
• Acquaintance network. To enlarge network of a FGFAR participant, FGFAR allows a participant of a FGFAR group to introduce another participant.

FGFAR is not a car sharing scheme

What is your opinion of FGFAR?