Shared Trip and Contribution Policy
What a shared trip is, and how a contribution is worked out.
Part of the Member Terms, version 10, published 22 October 2026. These are the same words, under their own heading.
WHAT E2U RIDE IS
E2U Ride is a peer to peer carpooling and shared trip technology platform. A Member may act as a Host when the Member is already planning to travel in a stated direction, or as a Guest when the Member seeks to join a compatible portion of another Member's trip. E2U provides technology for matching, routing, communications, payment facilitation, verification and safety features. E2U does not itself drive vehicles or employ Hosts.
These Terms describe how E2U operates. They do not determine how E2U, a Member or a Shared Trip may be classified under applicable law. Availability and requirements may differ by jurisdiction.
ONE MEMBERSHIP
E2U Ride is one account. There is no rider account and no driver account, and nobody is permanently either. The same membership lets you share a trip you are already making and lets you travel on somebody else's. These Terms apply to you in both.
You choose which you are, trip by trip. Hosting requires a car on your account and the documents in Host Requirements below. Traveling as a Guest requires the same identity checks as every other Member, and nothing further.
THE HOST'S TRIP EXISTS INDEPENDENTLY
By posting as a Host, you represent that you independently intend to travel in the direction and at approximately the time you post, whether or not a Guest joins you. A Guest's request does not require you to create a trip, change your ultimate destination, or undertake transportation that you were not otherwise planning to make. Hosts choose whether to accept a match and may set reasonable limits on pickup and drop off deviation.
A Host sets their own origin, their own destination and their own departure time, and keeps them. A Guest does not choose where a Host is going. Matches that would take a Host further out of their way than they have allowed are never shown to them. A Host may decline any request, for any reason or none, and declining costs them nothing.
THE GUEST CONTRIBUTION
A Guest Contribution is intended to help offset eligible costs associated with a Shared Trip. It is not calculated as compensation for a Host's labor or time. E2U may calculate a contribution using factors such as route distance, an applicable vehicle cost benchmark, the portion of the route shared, the number of people sharing a segment, Guest caused additional mileage, tolls, parking or access charges, and other approved incremental trip costs.
E2U establishes the maximum contribution available through the platform. A Host may accept a lower contribution but may not increase it above the E2U calculated maximum. Total Host recovery through E2U is designed not to exceed the applicable estimated costs of the Shared Trip.
No Member sets a price, and no Member bids. The software will not accept a contribution above the calculated maximum.
ADDITIONAL TIME, AND WHY IT IS NOT PAID FOR
Additional time is used to determine route compatibility and whether a Host wishes to accept a deviation. E2U does not separately compensate Hosts for their time. Eligible additional vehicle costs caused by a Guest's requested pickup or drop off may be included in the Guest Contribution.
SHARED COSTS AT AN EVENT
A Shared Trip may be posted to an event: a game, a concert, a service, a convention, an airport. Where E2U makes the feature available, the Members who travel together in one vehicle may share eligible costs of getting there that the Host pays on behalf of the vehicle, such as parking, a toll paid on the way in, or a venue access charge.
How it works. A shared event cost belongs to the whole outing and is divided once, among the people who were actually in the vehicle, the Host included. The Host carries their own share of it and recovers only the shares of the other occupants. Where a Host travels to an event and back, the cost is divided once for the outing and is never charged again because a return trip exists.
A Host may state a known price before Guests join, in which case that figure is shown to a Guest before they agree to anything. A Host may instead record what they actually paid, in which case the Guest is told in advance that the cost will be the actual cost, and above an amount E2U publishes the Host must provide a receipt before any Guest is charged a share. E2U may set a maximum for a single shared event cost.
A Guest is never charged a share of a cost that was not divided, and the share appears on the Guest's receipt as its own line, separate from the route contribution.
NO GUARANTEE OF A MATCH
E2U does not guarantee that anybody will be heading your way, that a Host will accept you, that a Guest will join your trip, or that any Shared Trip will take place. A posted trip and an open ask are both requests, not bookings.
QUESTIONS
Email info@e2uride.com.