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"Our friends at Google will also be joining us in the beta. They share our vision of a more energy-efficient world with less traffic congestion and pollution in our cities and are excited to be early adopters of UberPool."

I don't quite understand what that means. Are they saying that all Google employees have access to the beta, or is Google involved in some other way?

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Random guess:

they may be modifying one of the routing algorithms with google maps. How far of a deviation can you make from a given route to pickup another group without increasing the ride time by X percentage type questions?

I'm assuming that google is having its employees participate in the beta so they can share rides to the HQ

Yes. It's a good idea since they also invested so much into Uber already.

And also make it harder to distinguish a Google Bus from any other car.

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