Good morning, everyone, im scott mcgrew. Im neither a mathematician nor a racist. In fact, im bad at both of those things. But im told this is the formula when someone shows prejudice towards minorities in the world of ride share, uber and lyft and whatnot. They found africanamericans and people with africanamerican sounding names will have to wait longer for rides, and are more likely to see those rides canceled by the driver, even before theyre picked up. Dr. Steven soth studies transportation as the executive director of the center for Automotive Research at stanford. Joined this morning by sara lacy and John Schwartz of usa today. Let me start with what even inspired the study. What made you think, you know what we ought to do is we ought to see if this is a thing . It really started when don mckenzie and i were grad students at m. I. T. And during the course of our time there we really watched as ride sharing was kicking over a big part of the Transportation Business in the countr