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Since lyft launched in San Francisco 10s of thousands of people use this to give people a ride. Proic db providing new mobility. Among these passengers as well as drivers. For those of you who are not familiar with how lyft works. Please forgive me if you are already familiar with lyft. Can you talk a little slower . Certainly. Lift is a smartphone and people log in with their facebook account with their email address. To request a ride they tap a single button. The driver accepts the ride within seconds and arrives within minutes. The photo is displayed as well as with how many minutes it wil...

These are things that are not kind of accidentally detrimental to the political participation and people of color. We still have the struggles ahead of us. But it also is just simply the reality. Is it then that do we need to change attitudes first and the structural change, or do we have to go directly to changing structures and have attitudes change afterwards . I guess thats a question for all of you. I would go as is structures and change the structure. I mean, i think that the polling these things are always a little hard to read because people do say what they think that you want them to...

[inaudible conversations] hello everyone. Thanks for joining us today by an executive Vice President of external affairs here at the center for American Progress and im thrilled youre here with us today. Whitman of all races make up 18point 5 of the United States congress. Women of color makeup and abysmal 4. 5 of congress. These numbers exist in direct contradiction to the fact that women make up half of the population and are more likely to vote than the male counterparts. We will hear about the reflected Democracy Campaigns new research which shows the persistent upward under representation...

Well as drivers. For those of you who are not familiar with how lyft works. Please forgive me if you are already familiar with lyft. Can you talk a little slower . Certainly. Lift is a smartphone and people log in with their facebook account with their email address. To request a ride they tap a single button. The driver accepts the ride within seconds and arrives within minutes. The photo is displayed as well as with how many minutes it will take them to an arrive. Passengers are called prior to their arrival to communicate any needs they have. All payment happens by credit card to the apps s...

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 conversati...