Who’s gonna build a carpool-over-Nostr app?

Would be great if there was a way to

1. Advertise your route

2. React to somebody’s route and request a pickup and drop off for a small #bitcoin payment 😊

Source: https://effectiviology.com/shirky-principle/

PickupPal.com is… a carpooling site designed to coordinate drivers and riders planning to travel along the same route.

In May 2008 the Ontario-based bus company Trentway-Wagar… petitioned the Ontario Highway Transport Board (OHTB) to shut PickupPal down on the grounds that, by helping coordinate drivers and riders, it worked too well to be a carpool. Trentway-Wagar invoked Section 11 of the Ontario Public Vehicles Act, which stipulated that carpooling could happen only between home and work (rather than, say, school or hospital.) It had to happen within municipal lines. It had to involve the same driver each day. And gas or travel expense could be reimbursed no more frequently than weekly.

Trentway-Wagar was arguing that because carpooling used to be inconvenient, it should always be inconvenient, and if that inconvenience disappeared, then it should be reinserted by legal fiat.