UberCommute is Uber’s new long-distance carpooling service

China’s ride-sharing services may be trying desperately to hinder Uber’s expansion in the country, but it doesn’t seem to be working. The company has been investing hundreds of millions of dollars to speed up its expansion into what it considers one of its most important markets, and the latest product of that expansion is UberCommute. First launching in the Chinese city of Chengdu, UberCommute is a new carpooling service that differs from UberPool in that it focuses primarily on long-distance traveling. In the same blog post where it announced UberCommute, the company also named Chengdu its “number one city in the world.”.