>> hello my name is rich magoo and i am a driver for yellow cab and i don't understand the political process in this city. for three years now, this has been going on. and these people have just started being basically gypsy cabs and they have just allowed to roam and do whatever they are doing and now we are talking about providing choice for the consumer, and we are talking about whether or how they should be regulated, the process, there was a procedure, there is a, there is a regime in the city for the issuing of new cabs and that has completely been bypassed >> thank you, sir. >> next speaker? >> good afternoon, chris, ceo of city wide taxi in san francisco, and i have grown up in and around the taxi cab industry for over 30 years and make no mistake, these companies are providing on demand, for hire transportation just like taxi cabs do, and they are using a new technology to facility it for the customer and the service but that does not change the business that they are in. by calling themselves, a new type of transportation, and ignoring the rules of effectively deregulated t