We need a way to connect people in carpools who are going to the same hike or outing, or perhaps a concert or performance. Different from a commute carpool in that each occasion is unique.
People in outdoor organizations care about their carbon footprint, yet unless they are actual friends with someone they usually don’t have a way to arrange rides or carpooling.

It would be great to be able to have each club sponsor/pay for Waze and enable all their members planning to go on a specific outing to connect with each other to arrange to carpool. Setting up carpools on a public app or site seems riskier to people, sometimes older/retired.

Examples:
A scheduled Audubon Society outing to a specific site, to which people come from one or two counties such as Santa Clara and San Mateo.
A scheduled MROSD or OSA walk at a park or open space preserve.
A theater performance or concert that attracts people from several miles away and which may not be easy to do by public transport - think of finishing at 10.30 pm and then trying to get a CalTrain or a bus, plus walking to your house at that late hour.
The Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club sets specific carpool points and many of its hikers expect this. But other groups do not find this as easy to do. For instance, if the outing were taking place along the Bay side, there are no park & ride lots, and so it’s difficult to set up central carpool locations. If 2 or 3 people connected and agreed to meet at the house of the person nearest to the outing site, already we’ve saved several miles of one person/one car driving.
Thank you.