The Empty Seat Economy: Why Carpooling with Strangers Beats Delivery Apps

Every morning, millions of commuters drive to work with three or four empty seats beside them. Every evening, those same empty seats return home having generated nothing but rising fuel bills, accelerated tire wear, and mounting depreciation. The fundamental idea of the empty seat economy is simple: transform that idle seat from a pure cost into a source of revenue by sharing it with another person heading in roughly the same direction.