BMW invests in Scoop, a rival of the Uber – automonitor

BMW through its New York branch i Ventures , announced a partnership with the mobility service Scoop, Uber rival.

the German construction company thus becomes the third company auto industry advertising in recent days, a partnership with a transport and mobility services company after Toyota entering the capital of Uber and Volkswagen signed with Gett.

Launched in August 2015 the application Scoop made possible over 40,000 trips since then, but remains almost unknown to the vast majority of the public. The reason for this is that its users are mostly workers of large companies in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale and San Jose.

With the investment of BMW in Scoop, it is expected to the application continues to grow and prosper. Unlike other apps like Uber, the purpose of this application is to reach as soon as possible destination and thus save money and reduce greenhouse gas emissions – the application’s creators estimate that a vehicle unless the roads is the equivalent in CO2 the planting of 447 trees in a year.

Also according to the officials, the Scoop ensures arrival at the destination by the shortest path which, from the arrival to the market, have already allowed to save more than 800 000 kilometers of ‘useless’ trips.

users of the application can choose between the driver function or passenger on each trip and, depending on the chosen departure time, the proximity of other users and time destination, Scoop algorithm indicates the more ‘viable’ user.