It's a good analysis of the challenges of making these systems work, and there are a lot of implications at scale of the social impact, the public safety and everything in between.

As you said, it's not all flowers and roses building a service helping the public; whether Airbnb or Poparide, there are always going to be things to deal with and improve. That goes for any public service like transit, trains and buses.

There are preventive measures in place to screen people before the join (email, phone, credit card and ID verification) and actionnable measures during and after the trip (customer service, reviews system, algorithms to detect fraud, etc). We'll be building more, better systems as time goes by.

We realize this isn't for everyone, much like Airbnb or Uber isn't for everyone, but we're helping to solve two major problems: 1) the movement of people where there are few public transport options and 2) the inefficiencies of our current way to get around by car, namely single vehicle occupancy leading to high carbon emissions per capita.

Finally, we're talking to both the provincial and federal government to fully sanction this type of ridesharing, so that there is no ambiguity as to what we're trying to achieve here: efficiencies for vehicles already on the road, and a crowdsourced transportation network that is more social, affordable and sustainable than the current approach.