Car-Pooling Startup Seeks Profits in Life in Japan’s Slow Lanes
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Stuck in traffic heading out of Tokyo, Kohei Miwa noticed how few of the cars alongside him on the freeway were carrying passengers.
“It occurred to me that car-pooling would be one way to reduce traffic jams,” said Miwa, a 38-year-old former banker who worked at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley.