Waze will start shutting down Waze Carpool, the ride-sharing cousin of the real-time site visitors and navigation app Waze, in September, the corporate mentioned in a commentary shared with CNET Thursday. After the pandemic upended commuting patterns, or eradicated commutes altogether, Waze is moving its center of attention.

“Whilst Waze used to be predominantly a commuting app pre-COVID, these days the share of errands & shuttle drives have surpassed commutes,” Waze mentioned in its commentary. The decline in commuting comes at the same time as American citizens are riding 5-15% extra miles than they did earlier than the pandemic, Waze mentioned. 

Waze Carpool expanded country vast in 2018, not up to a yr and a part earlier than Covid-19 despatched employees house and curtailed riding.

Reducing Waze Carpool would permit the corporate to make “real-world have an effect on through doubling down on serving to towns deal with mobility issues similar to congestion, protection, sustainability and price,” Waze mentioned, however did not point out what in particular that might appear to be.