Our Problem
Our problem has to do with students who need rides home from school and after after- school activities. This problem was started by the problem of traffic and pollution. It is a problem that parents have to take hours out of there day to pick up their children from school, when many other parents live near you and also take time out of their day to pick up- when one parent should just pick up all of the students and drop them off. The people that are affected by this problem are working parents, other people in traffic with all of these parents driving with only 2 people, and more. Questions we got from our feedback section were, “What about school busses,” so we adjusted our problem to be about times and places when a school bus is not available or it is not possible to pick up your child from the school bus. Another question was, “How would you make sure that the driver is safe,” and so we adjust our problem to make sure it is in school districts with parents that have drivers license. We researched many websites that said that if every family carpooled one day a week, it could help the environment greatly. This is something so easy making the environment way more healthy.
Our Soloution
Our solution is to create an app that helps kids get a ride home. Many people that I know have not had a ride from school, so they had to wait more than an hour to be picked up. Our app is a carpooling app so that parents at school volunteer to drive kids home. This is mainly for working parents. The app allows kids to find parents that live in their neighbourhoods and that are offering to drive them home. The drivees parents then drive the drivers kids home as repayment. This allowed the parents to work on their schedule, and have someone pick up their kid without worry.