director bridges: -- secretary boomer: charles rathbone? >> i am here on behalf of wilshire cab company. i would like to address the change which allows a driver to bypass the installed credit card equipment in the cab. the driver can use square or some other smartphone app. however, this section does not give the customer any choice in the matter. it is entirely driver discretion. what if the customer does not want to pay on the driver's smartphone? perhaps the customer is concerned the smartphone might have viruses or some other malware. the cab company software is resistant to tampering. please include in section 1125 b five that the choice of payment is up to the customer and not the driver, and require their be signs in the cab advising the customer of that. lastly, some kind of penalty for a driver who intends to coerce a passenger into using the hand- held device. speaking personally as somebody who uses cabs as a main means of transportation, i really do not like to have to hand my card over to the driver for him to process on his h