BatonRide: School Carpool

BatonRide keeps school and activity carpools clear inside a private circle of guardians you already know.

Create a circle, invite trusted guardians and add the riders you coordinate. BatonRide uses completed driving turns, availability and seat capacity to suggest the next fair driver. If one car is not enough, it can split riders across available cars.

Follow each run through explicit hand-offs:

- Scheduled
- Pickup ready
- En route
- Dropped off
- All safe

BatonRide does not collect or retain a GPS trail. Guardians confirm each stage directly, so families see the same status without continuous location tracking.

When plans change, the assigned driver can request cover and another available guardian can accept it. The reassignment happens as one validated update, keeping the rota and current run consistent.

An append-only turns ledger records assignments, swaps and hand-offs. Each entry is linked to the previous entry, making the history clear and resistant to silent changes.

Private-circle safety controls include:

- Invite-only membership
- Organizer and guardian roles
- Reporting on guardian and rider records
- Member blocking and organizer removal
- A dedicated Child Safety Standards screen
- Circle exit and in-app account deletion

BatonRide is a coordination tool. Guardians remain responsible for driver suitability, consent, child safety and compliance with local transport laws.

Recent changes:
Initial release with invite-only guardian circles, fair capacity-aware driving rotations, split-car assignments, live child hand-offs, cover swaps, a tamper-evident turns ledger, safety reporting, blocking, membership controls and account deletion.