Great driver and hes going to assess me driving on the road and if im a good driver is that assessing life skills is if someone will pretty much dialogue and tell you a report back if im doing a good or bad job. Is that pretty much it . There is a pretty clear criteria, there are basically check boxes with respect to the performance of that ride along. But yes, there is a recommendation made by the mentor at the conclusion of the ride about whether that person should be a driver. Thank you. All right. I have a quick comment piggy back on your conversation. The fact is that not only are tnc ruizing reducing the demand for taxis but robbing the drivers who can operate the vehicles with wheelchair lifts. They are being attacked on both ends. I just wanted to make that comment. You dont have to respond. I would like to move to staff. This is jonah from the Mayors Office on disability. You talked about the success of your model for people with certain disabilities. Do you have any statistic
There is a pretty clear criteria, there are basically check boxes with respect to the performance of that ride along. But yes, there is a recommendation made by the mentor at the conclusion of the ride about whether that person should be a driver. Thank you. All right. I have a quick comment piggy back on your conversation. The fact is that not only are tnc ruizing reducing the demand for taxis but robbing the drivers who can operate the vehicles with wheelchair lifts. They are being attacked on both ends. I just wanted to make that comment. You dont have to respond. I would like to move to staff. This is jonah from the Mayors Office on disability. You talked about the success of your model for people with certain disabilities. Do you have any statistics or numbers of percentage of deaf drivers versus folks with some other disabilities, do you keep track of those numbers . That is information i would love to have. Under the new changes to our app we will be able to start collecting dat
Vehicle inspections, as i mentioned rides that are fulfilled on our platform are provided through our Standard Vehicle supply. Those are our typical lyft vehicles which to my knowledge dont require any special equipment. They are not vehicles equipped with a ramp or lift, they are for meeting the same mechanical requirement and go through that same inspection process that has been required by us and the puc which complies with the general population. There is not special training with respect to the provision of rides to individuals with disabilities and i certainly would be open to conversation about any content that you would recommend be included for those individuals who will be receiving rides on the lyft platform. For example i mentioned that these individuals will receive a text message inviting them to communicate with the driver to communicate their access needs. Those individuals that can enter a Standard Vehicle, if its your opinion that there are specific types of training
The target stake holders and they will be included that we have emails for and we vil with the signs up as well and anticipation of some Public Access portal. Thank you very much. Sorry and, maybe bill night be the man and is there any Media Coverage on this in regard to kind of the launch in the new dbi. At this point, no, we are looking at possibly a soft launch, and we are going to figure and we are still in the planning stages and so we may be able to report back to you in november. And as to what this final details will be. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That is everything, and that is all that i have. Once again, on behalf of the commission, we concur, and thank you for dealing with this. Okay. And keeping the transfer on the times and it is very important. Thank you so much. Is there any Public Comment on item 7 . Seeing none. So if it is madam, secretary, if we would go back into general Public Comment; is that correct . . Okay. And then go straight into directors report. Ite
Under the influence. A lot of people think its about driving, but its speed. 60 percent of the injuries occur in intersection. Our public needs to be aware of this. Too often people are not yielding to oncoming pedestrians. We need a shift that will require everyone to Pay Attention to the streets. San francisco is ranked as having the highest total rates of fatalities and major injuries to pedestrians and bicyclist by both vehicle miles and by population. I know we can do better. We are a city that knows how to do things so lets get it done. This will call on the Transportation Authority to convene a working group of Pedestrian Safety advocates and lead the major county departments. Including the departments of Public Health, sf mta and San Francisco Police Department to develop and action plan. Within 90 days of this first meeting, an action plan of the Public Awareness campaign will be presented to the board. We have an unprecedented level of support coming from community members, t