any of us that san francisco is often ground zero for the testing and launching of new technologies ranging from short-term rentals to third-party food delivery apps to escooters, you name it. and san francisco because of its dense urban environment has been the experiment grounds for the burgeoning autonomous vehicle industry. we see different companies on our streets and they are now at the point where they re able to offer under limited times revenue fare service and i have found in my tenure on this board that in many of these instances we as a policy body end up playing catch-up and asking for things after the fact. and in this particular moment, i thought this was actually a good opportunity to go on record supporting some straightforward, i think relatively simple common sense policies and this is predicated or the impetus was a letter that was jointly signed by jeff tomlin and tilly chang from the executive tranche of branch of thecity and county ond and the transport