Next time you take an Uber, think about the planet and use the carpool option. If everybody did it, Uber could replace every single taxi in New York City with just one fourth of the vehicles. A team of researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has crunched the numbers and discovered that, owing to the efficiencies in ridesharing app algorithms, Uber and Lyft's carpool system could serve a major city with a fraction of the cars.
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