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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122562\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/02/microsatellites-race-to-get-more-eyes-in-space/planet-labs/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122562\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-122562 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/planet-labs-e1388705979698.png\" alt=\"Planet Labs' Dove 2 photo of sea ice in the Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland.\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Planet Labs' Dove 2 photo of sea ice in the Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Few of us, at least initially, will be able to afford the space travel that Elon Musk (SpaceX), Richard Branson (Virgin Galactic), and others are planning. We’ll have to be content with seeing space through the eyes of imaging satellites – and that’s, literally, an increasingly crowded field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November alone, 61 microsatellites, many with cameras focused on earth, were launched. We’ve already seen some of the high-resolution images they've captured: a spectacular shot of sea ice in the Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland, a photo of farms between two rivers in Washington state, close-ups of an airport in France and a university in Abu Dhabi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on Dec. 23, Mountain View-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.skyboximaging.com/\">Skybox Imaging\u003c/a> released “the world’s first high-resolution, high-definition video of Earth taken by a commercial remote sensing satellite.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/fCrB1t8MncY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local tech companies, naturally, are front and center. Skybox and San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.planet-labs.com/\">Planet Labs\u003c/a>’ imaging satellites are part of the major disruption of government and commercially backed space programs. Their low-earth orbit microsatellites are small, cheap to build and launch. They tap the latest consumer electronics and cloud computing technology, and have an intentionally short lifespan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The startups expect their clientele – including both business and humanitarian agencies – to be eager for their satellites’ frequently updated economic, environmental and security data, focused on everything from illegal logging to crop growth to the scope of massive natural disasters. With video, Skybox Imaging could help analyze movement, from supply chain monitoring and industrial plant activity to environmental and humanitarian relief monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Berkenstock, Skybox Imaging’s co-founder and executive vice president, underscores the commercial benefits: “Satellite analytics, which help us understand macro economic activity in a new way, help businesses so they can see and quantify transportation, infrastructure, the driver of global economics – changes that impact the bottom line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investors have lined up. Planet Labs \u003ca href=\"http://blog.planet-labs.com/2013/12/18/planet-labs-raises-52m-in-series-b-financing/\">announced\u003c/a> on Dec. 18 that it has closed a $52 million funding round led by billionaire Yuri Milner (known for his early investment in Facebook, Twitter, Ali Baba), Industry Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Lux Capital, and Ray Rothrock. The startup has raised a total of $65 million to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skybox Imaging has raised $91 million from investors that include Canaan Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, CrunchFund, Khosla Ventures, and Bessemer Venture Partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planet Labs plans to launch 28 of their Dove satellites (approximately a foot long, less than 4 inches wide and 4 inches deep) in what they’re calling Flock 1 as early as Jan. 7. The satellites are able to capture images of up to three meters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122611\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/02/microsatellites-race-to-get-more-eyes-in-space/planet-labs-flock-1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122611\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-122611 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/Planet-labs-flock-1-e1388712871381.jpg\" alt=\"Planet Labs' Flock 1 satellites. (Courtesy Planet Labs)\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Planet Labs' Flock 1 satellites. (Courtesy Planet Labs)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re not publicizing clients” right now, said co-founder and CEO Will Marshall, a day prior to the news of the $52 million funding round. “But we’ve exceeded in sales the amount from venture capital. We’re pleased with the interest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skybox’s SkySat-1 microsatellite, launched on Nov. 21, is the first of 24 planned satellites with a one-meter resolution; SkySat-2, says Berkenstock, is planned to launch at the end of March. A third satellite will go up at the end of 2014 or early 2015, with a total of 24 satellites in orbit within five years. Skybox’s satellites are heftier, weighing in at about 220 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while capturing and selling frequently updated photos of melting icecaps is probably a good thing, using these pix to determine how often your car is parked in front of your hideaway cabin might not be. How will these companies make sure their microsatellites are not used for nefarious purposes? How will they vet their customers? What will they say when the government wants all their data?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122577\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/02/microsatellites-race-to-get-more-eyes-in-space/skybox/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122577\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-122577 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/Skybox-e1388707351434.png\" alt=\"Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Collected by Skybox Imaging's SkySat-1 on Dec. 7, 2013.\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Collected by Skybox Imaging's SkySat-1 on Dec. 7, 2013.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Planet Labs incorporates into its mission that it strive to “do good,” “be responsible,” and “provide open information.” The founders, all NASA vets, believe they have found the sweet spot to meet the altruistic goals: “To best enable this mission, the company has selected a low orbit for its constellation and an optical resolution of three to five meters — a scale that allows measurement of a tree canopy, but does not compromise individual privacy,” said a June 26 statement. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We chose this resolution,” Marshall said. “We care a lot about creating a data set that is helping humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last month Marshall told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a8b611c0-5661-11e3-ab12-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2pIN4FSui\">Financial Times\u003c/a>, “We are taking images of the whole earth so we can count every tree on the planet. It’s not that we’ll find a hole in the Amazon a month after the trees are being cut down — we can see people logging the tree and call the Brazilian government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skybox Imaging, whose founders met and started the company while still Stanford University grad students, also states that its products will not trample privacy rights. In the press release for its HD video, the company said, \"SkySat-1 captures up to 90-second video clips at 30 frames per second. The resolution is high enough to view objects like shipping containers that impact the global economy while maintaining a level of clarity that does not determine human activity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Berkenstock, it’s more a matter of “two different fundamental laws of physics.” Yes, Moore’s Law says that the technology will continue to improve, meaning what the satellites’ cameras can view will continue to get better. But camera lenses, he says, don’t improve at the rate of Moore’s Law, as they’re dictated by the laws of refraction. “The higher the resolution, the less area you can capture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he said, aiming for that kind of resolution is not cost-effective for Skybox. \"We wanted to build the smallest, simplest box that could show things of value including the ability to count cars. But seeing the people would require a satellite that is 10 to one thousand times more expensive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, maybe we can see this much clearly: The fine line between helping humanity and violating privacy is being carefully threaded, for now.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Planet Labs \u003ca href=\"http://blog.planet-labs.com/2013/12/18/planet-labs-raises-52m-in-series-b-financing/\">announced\u003c/a> on Dec. 18 that it has closed a $52 million funding round led by billionaire Yuri Milner (known for his early investment in Facebook, Twitter, Ali Baba), Industry Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Lux Capital, and Ray Rothrock. The startup has raised a total of $65 million to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skybox Imaging has raised $91 million from investors that include Canaan Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, CrunchFund, Khosla Ventures, and Bessemer Venture Partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planet Labs plans to launch 28 of their Dove satellites (approximately a foot long, less than 4 inches wide and 4 inches deep) in what they’re calling Flock 1 as early as Jan. 7. The satellites are able to capture images of up to three meters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122611\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/02/microsatellites-race-to-get-more-eyes-in-space/planet-labs-flock-1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122611\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-122611 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/Planet-labs-flock-1-e1388712871381.jpg\" alt=\"Planet Labs' Flock 1 satellites. (Courtesy Planet Labs)\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Planet Labs' Flock 1 satellites. (Courtesy Planet Labs)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re not publicizing clients” right now, said co-founder and CEO Will Marshall, a day prior to the news of the $52 million funding round. “But we’ve exceeded in sales the amount from venture capital. We’re pleased with the interest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skybox’s SkySat-1 microsatellite, launched on Nov. 21, is the first of 24 planned satellites with a one-meter resolution; SkySat-2, says Berkenstock, is planned to launch at the end of March. A third satellite will go up at the end of 2014 or early 2015, with a total of 24 satellites in orbit within five years. Skybox’s satellites are heftier, weighing in at about 220 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while capturing and selling frequently updated photos of melting icecaps is probably a good thing, using these pix to determine how often your car is parked in front of your hideaway cabin might not be. How will these companies make sure their microsatellites are not used for nefarious purposes? How will they vet their customers? What will they say when the government wants all their data?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122577\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/02/microsatellites-race-to-get-more-eyes-in-space/skybox/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122577\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-122577 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/Skybox-e1388707351434.png\" alt=\"Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Collected by Skybox Imaging's SkySat-1 on Dec. 7, 2013.\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Collected by Skybox Imaging's SkySat-1 on Dec. 7, 2013.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Planet Labs incorporates into its mission that it strive to “do good,” “be responsible,” and “provide open information.” The founders, all NASA vets, believe they have found the sweet spot to meet the altruistic goals: “To best enable this mission, the company has selected a low orbit for its constellation and an optical resolution of three to five meters — a scale that allows measurement of a tree canopy, but does not compromise individual privacy,” said a June 26 statement. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We chose this resolution,” Marshall said. “We care a lot about creating a data set that is helping humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last month Marshall told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a8b611c0-5661-11e3-ab12-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2pIN4FSui\">Financial Times\u003c/a>, “We are taking images of the whole earth so we can count every tree on the planet. It’s not that we’ll find a hole in the Amazon a month after the trees are being cut down — we can see people logging the tree and call the Brazilian government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skybox Imaging, whose founders met and started the company while still Stanford University grad students, also states that its products will not trample privacy rights. In the press release for its HD video, the company said, \"SkySat-1 captures up to 90-second video clips at 30 frames per second. The resolution is high enough to view objects like shipping containers that impact the global economy while maintaining a level of clarity that does not determine human activity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Berkenstock, it’s more a matter of “two different fundamental laws of physics.” Yes, Moore’s Law says that the technology will continue to improve, meaning what the satellites’ cameras can view will continue to get better. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121630\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/121601/anti-aging-research-mice/2186512039_9ff9aa75e7_z-1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121630\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-121630\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/2186512039_9ff9aa75e7_z-1.jpg\" alt=\"(HerPhotographer / Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(HerPhotographer / Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Humans have long pursued the fountain of youth, and certainly there have been extraordinary breakthroughs in years past. But there's new evidence suggesting we may be drinking from that fountain sooner rather than later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers announced this past week that they've been able to reverse the aging process in mice, using a chemical that in one week made two-year-old mice tissue resemble tissue of six-month-old mice. In human years, that's as if a 60-year-old's cells became more like the cells of a 20-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a paper published in the journal \u003ca href=\"http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674%2813%2901521-3\">Cell\u003c/a>, lead investigator Dr. David Sinclair, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and his colleagues report that a compound naturally made by young cells called NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) was able to revitalize older cells and make them youthful and energetic again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, a joint project between Harvard Medical School; the National Institute on Aging; and the University of New South Wales, Sydney, found that the cell nucleus and the mitochondria (the cell's energy source) stop communicating as we age. Over time this loss of communication reduces the cell's ability to make energy, and aging accelerates. But boosting a cell's NAD levels, which decrease with age, helps restore communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The aging process we discovered is like a married couple — when they are young, they communicate well, but over time, living in close quarters for many years, communication breaks down,” \u003ca href=\"http://hms.harvard.edu/news/genetics/new-reversible-cause-aging-12-19-13\">said Sinclair\u003c/a>. “And just like with a couple, restoring communication solved the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Ana Gomes, a postdoctoral scientist in the Harvard lab, found that by administering a compound that cells transform into NAD, the broken network can be repaired and communication and mitochondrial function rapidly restored. If the compound was given early enough, some aspects of the aging process could be reversed. She told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25445748\">BBC\u003c/a> that the research group wants to begin clinical trials in 2015:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Dr. Gomes said human therapies were a distant prospect but: \"From what we know so far we don't think you'd have to take it from 20 years until we die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems we can start when we're already old, but not too old that we're already damaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If started at 40 you would probably have a much nicer window of health aging — but I would guess that, we have to do clinical trials.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Scientists at the Buck Institute hypothesized the worms' lifespan would increase by about 130 percent. Instead, it increased by five times -- meaning the nematodes lived to the human equivalent of 400 to 500 years.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in another development, scientists at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.buckinstitute.org/\">Buck Institute for Research on Aging\u003c/a> in Novato announced they have found a way to vastly expand the lifespan of \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematode\">nematodes,\u003c/a> or roundworms, by combining \"mutations in two pathways well-known for lifespan extension.\" The researchers hypothesized that the worms' lifespan would increase by about 130 percent. Instead, their lifespan increased by \u003cem>five\u003c/em> times -- meaning the nematodes lived to the human equivalent of 400 to 500 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research, published in a paper \u003ca href=\"http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/abstract/S2211-1247(13)00685-2\">Cell Reports\u003c/a> on Dec. 12, \"was kind of a shock,\" said Pankaj Kapahi, lead scientist on the study and a Buck faculty member, to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/novato/ci_24721072/new-buck-institute-study-extends-life-span-human\">Marin Independent Journal\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Kapahi said in addition to implications for human life extension, the study's results could also lead to new approaches for battling age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Kapahi said the research suggests the possibility of employing combination therapies for aging in much the same way as is done for cancer and HIV.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>There have also been two recent developments in who is funding anti-aging research, both in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such funding took a major hit last August when the Ellison Medical Foundation, with Oracle's Larry Ellison's as its chair, decided to stop making new grants, after 15 years as one of the leading sources of funding in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As reported in \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/biotech/2013/12/larry-ellison-foundation-aging-calico.html\">San Francisco Business Times\u003c/a> last week, this came as a shock to researchers, who had come to depend on the foundation's 4-year awards. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/eviction-protesters-oakland-san-francisco-target-silicon-valley-buses/photo-1-4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121446\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/photo-11-e1387561504967.jpg\" alt=\"Anti-eviction protesters block a Silicon Valley bus -- this one carrying Apple employees -- at 24th and Valencia streets in San Francisco's Mission District (Vinnee Tong/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121446\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-eviction protesters block a Silicon Valley bus — this one carrying Apple employees — at 24th and Valencia streets in San Francisco’s Mission District (Vinnee Tong/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Our local “Google bus” protests took a turn today as a total of three buses were stopped in actions in San Francisco and Oakland, where one of the vehicles was vandalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, a bus carrying Apple employees was blocked during the morning rush hour by protesters at 24th and Valencia streets. The action, carried out by activists seeking city action to halt evictions in the Mission District and elsewhere amid an influx of technology workers, was a sequel to one on Dec. 9 in which a Google bus was halted at the same corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘The people outside your Google bus serve you coffee, watch your kids, have sex with you for money, make you food, and are being driven out of their neighborhoods.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Oakland protesters’ flyer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, one bus was stopped at the MacArthur BART station. The second incident happened at 7th and Adeline streets near the West Oakland BART station. Demonstrators there not only displayed banners, including one that said “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/craigsfrost/status/414074094578307072/photo/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F*** Off Google\u003c/a>,” but also broke windows on one bus and caused other damage. Google confirmed the West Oakland incident to KQED News reporter Sam Harnett. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The character of the West Oakland incident seems much more aggressive and hostile toward Google and its employees than bus-related protests in San Francisco, which have been nonviolent and focused specifically on the displacement of residents from the Mission District as employees of technology firms bid up rents and home prices. During this morning’s San Francisco action, demonstrators went through the motions, at least, of reaching out to Apple employees inside the bus, urging them to join the protest. (None did, so far as we’ve heard.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council, a business group that reportedly represents 30 of the shuttle bus operators in their dealings with San Francisco officials, issued a statement saying “the vandalism and violence against employee shuttles and the workers who ride them is unfortunate and unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activist media site IndyBay carried \u003ca href=\"https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/12/20/18748143.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this rather impressionistic account \u003c/a>of what happened at 7th and Adeline: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At 8:15, a small group of people met at 7th and Adeline in West Oakland. Down the street, over 20 employees of Google were queued up, waiting for their giant white bus to take them to their Mountain View headquarters. When it arrived, a kind young man, homeless and unemployed, boarded the bus with the employees. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they took their seats, several people unfurled two giant banners reading “TECHIES: Your World Is Not Welcome Here” and “F*** OFF GOOGLE.” They offered fliers to the passengers but they were refused. One passenger tried to take someone’s bicycle, but they were repelled. Inside the bus, the other passengers slowly became aware of what was happening outside. One female passenger suddenly remarked, “The protesters are at it again.”\u003cbr>\nThe kind young man on the bus urgently approached the bus driver and began asking, \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bus driver, what are you gonna do, man? What are you gonna do?”\u003cbr>\n“Don’t worry. It’s freedom of speech, freedom of speech.”\u003cbr>\nThe kind young man then walked to the rear of the bus, saying,\u003cbr>\n“Oh my god! What’s gonna happen next?”\u003cbr>\nThe same female passenger took out her phone and began filming the blockade.\u003cbr>\n“At least we’re warm in here and they’re cold out there,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost on cue, a person appeared from behind the bus and quickly smashed the whole of the rear window, making glass rain down on the street. Cold air blew inside the bus and the blockaders with their banners departed. The kind young man left the bus and outside someone threw fliers with a smiley face logo and the message ‘disrupt google’ into the air. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After this the bus remained where it was, blocked for the time being. Several more people arrived while the stranded Google employees began collecting the fliers off the street. The bus remained where it was, the thought of driving to Mountain View with a broken window and flooded with cold air an unthinkable horror they could not endure. Another crowd assembled near the bus pickup zone and within the hour the blockade began again.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here’s a link to a Twitter image of the protest as seen from inside the Google bus:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp>My Gbus got hit by protesters in Oakland and they broke a window. \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/VGCyhBLgyd\">pic.twitter.com/VGCyhBLgyd\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Craig Frost (@craigsfrost) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/craigsfrost/statuses/414074094578307072\">December 20, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And here’s the beginning of the text of \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/HN96VRk5ey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the flyer\u003c/a> the West Oakland protesters were distributing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“In case you’re wondering why this happened, we’ll be extremely clear. The people outside your Google bus serve you coffee, watch your kids, have sex with you for money, make you food, and are being driven out of their neighborhoods. While you guys live fat as hogs with your free 24/7 buffets, everyone else is scraping the bottom of their wallets, b arely existing in this expensive world that you and your chums have helped create. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>(Full text of the flyer: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/google-bus-protesters-manifesto-get-o/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Bus Protesters’ Manifesto: ‘Get Out of Oakland!’\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its statement on today’s bus incidents, the Bay Area Council said the protests do nothing to address the underlying causes of the housing challenges facing the region:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The anger and frustration that some residents feel about rising home prices and rents, growing evictions, increasing traffic is understandable. But blaming a single industry and a single group of workers is unfair, misguided and misdirected. Many of these problems are directly related to the simple fact that the Bay Area over the past 30 years has failed to produce sufficient housing across all income levels to meet the needs of our growing economy. We also have failed to invest adequately to expand and maintain our transportation infrastructure. We must acknowledge the pain that many residents are feeling as our economy grows, but the solution to these issues resides in working together to expand our housing supply, invest in transit and transportation and helping those who are directly affected by the changes we’re experiencing.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> San Francisco anti-eviction activists have taken to the streets to block Silicon Valley-bound buses this morning. Several dozen protesters at 24th and Valencia streets in San Francisco blocked a bus carrying Apple employees. A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/activists/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protest at the same corner on Dec. 9\u003c/a> targeted a Google bus. (That action featured \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/google-bus-protest-most-entertaining-moment-was-staged/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an apparently impromptu performance\u003c/a> by an Oakland labor activist who, suggesting he was a Google employee enraged at the delay in getting to work, told the protesters they needed to get out of San Francisco and find someplace they could afford to live.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those in this morning’s crowd carried banners, including one urging passengers to get off the bus and join the protest. The picture above is from KQED News producer Vinnee Tong, who just happened to be passing the corner of 24th and Valencia while the protest was under way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second bus, this one headed for Google’s Mountain View campus, was blocked this morning by protesters at Oakland’s MacArthur BART station. Here’s a picture of that from KQED News reporter Grace Rubenstein:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121449\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/eviction-protesters-oakland-san-francisco-target-silicon-valley-buses/macarthurbus/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121449\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/macarthurbus-e1387562289874.jpg\" alt=\"A Google bus halted by protesters Friday morning at Oakland's MacArthur BART station. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121449\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Google bus halted by protesters Friday morning at Oakland’s MacArthur BART station. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month’s protests have carried a double-edged message. They’re focused partly on the displacement of apartment tenants across the city as well-paid technology sector workers crowding into the city drive up rental prices. And the actions are also targeting the fact that fleets of Silicon Valley buses are using Muni bus stops and other infrastructure without paying for it. Here’s \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2013/12/20/bus-blocked-again-in-tech-boom-backlash/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the San Francisco Chronicle’s Kurtis Alexander\u003c/a> on today’s protest and the background context: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Friday’s action, taken by a few dozen demonstrators, began shortly before 9 a.m. on southbound Valencia Street at 24th Street. It wasn’t immediately clear which company the shuttle belonged to. The blockade didn’t last long, as police soon arrived and protesters followed their orders to move to the sidewalk. The bus departed at 9:20 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, nobody pretended to be an entitled techie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Robles, who works for a nonprofit group that advocates for seniors and the disabled , said he joined the rally to call attention to rising rents that displaced vulnerable residents. “We’re here to send a message to the rich tech companies that their business has ramifications and consequences,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to talk to the bus riders were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business leaders have said the backlash against the tech buses doesn’t make sense, as the buses take solo drivers off the roads. According to the Bay Area Council, a business group that represents the shuttle operators, 30 companies run the buses and make a combined total of 4,000 stops across San Francisco every weekday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, those buses are using Muni stops without permission and without paying a cent.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activist media site IndyBay carried \u003ca href=\"https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/12/20/18748143.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this rather impressionistic account \u003c/a>of what happened at 7th and Adeline: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At 8:15, a small group of people met at 7th and Adeline in West Oakland. Down the street, over 20 employees of Google were queued up, waiting for their giant white bus to take them to their Mountain View headquarters. When it arrived, a kind young man, homeless and unemployed, boarded the bus with the employees. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they took their seats, several people unfurled two giant banners reading “TECHIES: Your World Is Not Welcome Here” and “F*** OFF GOOGLE.” They offered fliers to the passengers but they were refused. One passenger tried to take someone’s bicycle, but they were repelled. Inside the bus, the other passengers slowly became aware of what was happening outside. One female passenger suddenly remarked, “The protesters are at it again.”\u003cbr>\nThe kind young man on the bus urgently approached the bus driver and began asking, \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bus driver, what are you gonna do, man? What are you gonna do?”\u003cbr>\n“Don’t worry. It’s freedom of speech, freedom of speech.”\u003cbr>\nThe kind young man then walked to the rear of the bus, saying,\u003cbr>\n“Oh my god! What’s gonna happen next?”\u003cbr>\nThe same female passenger took out her phone and began filming the blockade.\u003cbr>\n“At least we’re warm in here and they’re cold out there,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost on cue, a person appeared from behind the bus and quickly smashed the whole of the rear window, making glass rain down on the street. Cold air blew inside the bus and the blockaders with their banners departed. The kind young man left the bus and outside someone threw fliers with a smiley face logo and the message ‘disrupt google’ into the air. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After this the bus remained where it was, blocked for the time being. Several more people arrived while the stranded Google employees began collecting the fliers off the street. The bus remained where it was, the thought of driving to Mountain View with a broken window and flooded with cold air an unthinkable horror they could not endure. Another crowd assembled near the bus pickup zone and within the hour the blockade began again.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here’s a link to a Twitter image of the protest as seen from inside the Google bus:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp>My Gbus got hit by protesters in Oakland and they broke a window. \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/VGCyhBLgyd\">pic.twitter.com/VGCyhBLgyd\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Craig Frost (@craigsfrost) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/craigsfrost/statuses/414074094578307072\">December 20, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And here’s the beginning of the text of \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/HN96VRk5ey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the flyer\u003c/a> the West Oakland protesters were distributing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“In case you’re wondering why this happened, we’ll be extremely clear. The people outside your Google bus serve you coffee, watch your kids, have sex with you for money, make you food, and are being driven out of their neighborhoods. While you guys live fat as hogs with your free 24/7 buffets, everyone else is scraping the bottom of their wallets, b arely existing in this expensive world that you and your chums have helped create. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>(Full text of the flyer: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/google-bus-protesters-manifesto-get-o/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Bus Protesters’ Manifesto: ‘Get Out of Oakland!’\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its statement on today’s bus incidents, the Bay Area Council said the protests do nothing to address the underlying causes of the housing challenges facing the region:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The anger and frustration that some residents feel about rising home prices and rents, growing evictions, increasing traffic is understandable. But blaming a single industry and a single group of workers is unfair, misguided and misdirected. Many of these problems are directly related to the simple fact that the Bay Area over the past 30 years has failed to produce sufficient housing across all income levels to meet the needs of our growing economy. We also have failed to invest adequately to expand and maintain our transportation infrastructure. We must acknowledge the pain that many residents are feeling as our economy grows, but the solution to these issues resides in working together to expand our housing supply, invest in transit and transportation and helping those who are directly affected by the changes we’re experiencing.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> San Francisco anti-eviction activists have taken to the streets to block Silicon Valley-bound buses this morning. Several dozen protesters at 24th and Valencia streets in San Francisco blocked a bus carrying Apple employees. A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/activists/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protest at the same corner on Dec. 9\u003c/a> targeted a Google bus. (That action featured \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/google-bus-protest-most-entertaining-moment-was-staged/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an apparently impromptu performance\u003c/a> by an Oakland labor activist who, suggesting he was a Google employee enraged at the delay in getting to work, told the protesters they needed to get out of San Francisco and find someplace they could afford to live.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those in this morning’s crowd carried banners, including one urging passengers to get off the bus and join the protest. The picture above is from KQED News producer Vinnee Tong, who just happened to be passing the corner of 24th and Valencia while the protest was under way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second bus, this one headed for Google’s Mountain View campus, was blocked this morning by protesters at Oakland’s MacArthur BART station. Here’s a picture of that from KQED News reporter Grace Rubenstein:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121449\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/eviction-protesters-oakland-san-francisco-target-silicon-valley-buses/macarthurbus/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121449\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/macarthurbus-e1387562289874.jpg\" alt=\"A Google bus halted by protesters Friday morning at Oakland's MacArthur BART station. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121409\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/19/121348/rs4898_googleglassstache-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121409\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-121409\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS4898_GoogleGlassStache-scr-e1387507156219.jpg\" alt=\"Google engineer Ian McKellar wears Google Glass. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New apps let Google Glass-wearers scan faces and access profiles. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The days of looking at that cute guy at the bar and wondering if you'd be sympatico are, well, over. You'll \u003cem>know\u003c/em>, pretty much immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because we'll all be wearing Google Glass or a knock-off, or have an app on our phone or watch that can instantly scan someone's face and call up their profiles. The upside: You'll easily be able to weed out sex offenders, criminals and other losers. The downside: Everyone will be checking out your info, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the beta version of that future is out today — Las Vegas startup \u003ca href=\"http://www.nametag.ws/\" target=\"_blank\">NameTag\u003c/a> released a video that demo'ed its facial recognition app for Google Glass. The app pulls from photos on public profiles on social media, as well as a database of 450,000 known sex offenders in the National Sex Offender Registry. NameTag hopes to pull from profiles on dating sites PlentyOfFish, OkCupid, Match.com and others soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It’s much easier to meet interesting new people when we can simply look at someone, see their Facebook, review their LinkedIn page or maybe even see their dating site profile.'\u003ccite>Kevin Tussy, NameTag\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>NameTag, part of the developer group FacialNetwork.com, says its software is so accurate and powerful that it can spot a face using the Glass camera, send it wirelessly to a server, compare it to millions of records and in seconds return a match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that this will make online dating and offline social interactions much safer and give us a far better understanding of the people around us,” NameTag’s creator Kevin Tussy said in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/facialnetworkcom-announces-beta-release-of-nametag-the-first-real-time-facial-recognition-app-for-google-glass-236604441.html\">statement\u003c/a>. “It’s much easier to meet interesting new people when we can simply look at someone, see their Facebook, review their LinkedIn page or maybe even see their dating site profile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is the NameTag demo:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/pVwBXr_nU9Q\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Tussy says users will have control over what information can be accessed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I want to stress that only already public information is shown, and we will let people control their profiles and opt out if they want,\" he said in an email. \"This is for people that want to be recognized and want to meet others in this way. It's not for people who wish to remain anonymous... Unless, you have been deemed by the courts to not have that right, i.e., sex offenders.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Google, which has dealt with Glass \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/10/tech/mobile/negative-google-glass-reactions/\">privacy and security concerns\u003c/a> since its launch, does not approve of facial recognition apps for the device; a line in its \u003ca href=\"https://developers.google.com/glass/policies\">developer policies for Glass \u003c/a>specifically says, \"Don't use the camera or microphone to cross-reference and immediately present personal information identifying anyone other than the user, including use cases such as facial recognition and voice print.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as VentureBeat \u003ca href=\"http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/19/nametag-releases-first-face-recognition-app-for-google-glass-recognizes-450k-sex-offenders/\">reported\u003c/a>, \"technically savvy Glass owners can easily jailbreak their smart glasses and install any apps they want. … Google itself has \u003ca href=\"http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/16/how-to-hack-google-glass-void-your-warranty-and-brick-your-new-1500-augmented-reality-specs/\">released instructions on exactly how to accomplish that\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the floodgates appear to be open already. Later this month, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/12/18/google-glass-face-recognition-app-coming-this-month-whether-google-likes-it-or-not/\">Forbes\u003c/a>, 24-year-old Stephen Balaban of San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"http://lambdal.com/\">Lambda Labs \u003c/a>plans to release another unauthorized app for Glass at the Chaos Communications Congress hacker conference in Hamburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balaban's FaceRec app will allow you to collect and catalog images of faces seen through the Glass lens, along with other recognizable objects such as computer screens and license plates. It will then let you integrate that data with location coordinates, so you'll have a record of who or what you saw, and when and where you saw them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the moment, Forbes says, \"Lambda’s software doesn’t capture images fast enough to identify faces in real time, and doesn’t have a database of faces and personal details to draw from – users have to identify photographed faces manually or write their own script to take the data from Facebook, which violates its terms of service.\" But eventually, as Balaban told Forbes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Facial recognition is only going to get better, and soon you’ll be able to not only look at someone you’ve met once, but people you’ve never met before, and immediately see what you have in common,” says Balaban. “You’ll be able to go to a conference and see all the engineers with Android experience or walk around at a networking event and see all the potential investors.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Balaban admits that there may be serious privacy implications, but he thinks it's a worthwhile tradeoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Some of the applications definitely outweigh the privacy issues,” he says. “This technology is very useful, whether you have Alzheimer’s and you’re forgetting your loved ones’ names, or if you’re blind and use it to recognize people at all. It’s kind of a big deal.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here is the Lambda Labs demo:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/4L1kfUAeMGE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Balaban has also developed a Glass-like, Android-based device that he calls the Lambda Hat. Described as a cap with a camera, it has a much longer battery life than Glass. On Monday, Lambda will start accepting \u003ca href=\"https://lambdahat.com/\">pre-orders\u003c/a> for the hat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government is recognizing the expansion in facial recognition technologies and the need to establish policies concerning products and usage. To that end, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration will meet in February 2014 with groups and companies to draft privacy guidelines for a rapidly growing industry. Facial recognition technology is already used by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/06/san-diego-facial-recognition-technology\">law enforcement\u003c/a>, and for commercial uses. As \u003ca href=\"http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/12/17/government-plans-facial-recognition-code-for-2014\">U.S. News & World Report\u003c/a> notes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Facebook uses facial recognition software in its photo database, as does Google for its Picasa photo design website. Consumer products using biometrics are expected to become more popular in 2014. Fingerprint scanning technology will likely become mainstream in 2014 because of \u003ca href=\"http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/12/11/study-biometric-smartphones-predicted-for-2014\">consumer demand\u003c/a> for the biometric password feature used on Apple's iPhone 5S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retailers also want the chance to develop facial recognition technology, says Mallory Duncan, general counsel for the National Retail Federation, one of the trade groups participating in the NTIA meetings. Facial detection tools could tailor an advertisement on a digital billboard to a customer, depending whether the consumer facing a kiosk is a man or woman, and depending on age range, but this is still largely an exhibit used at trade shows and none of NRF member companies have plans to use that technology, Duncan explains. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is the NameTag demo:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/pVwBXr_nU9Q\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Tussy says users will have control over what information can be accessed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I want to stress that only already public information is shown, and we will let people control their profiles and opt out if they want,\" he said in an email. \"This is for people that want to be recognized and want to meet others in this way. It's not for people who wish to remain anonymous... Unless, you have been deemed by the courts to not have that right, i.e., sex offenders.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Google, which has dealt with Glass \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/10/tech/mobile/negative-google-glass-reactions/\">privacy and security concerns\u003c/a> since its launch, does not approve of facial recognition apps for the device; a line in its \u003ca href=\"https://developers.google.com/glass/policies\">developer policies for Glass \u003c/a>specifically says, \"Don't use the camera or microphone to cross-reference and immediately present personal information identifying anyone other than the user, including use cases such as facial recognition and voice print.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as VentureBeat \u003ca href=\"http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/19/nametag-releases-first-face-recognition-app-for-google-glass-recognizes-450k-sex-offenders/\">reported\u003c/a>, \"technically savvy Glass owners can easily jailbreak their smart glasses and install any apps they want. … Google itself has \u003ca href=\"http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/16/how-to-hack-google-glass-void-your-warranty-and-brick-your-new-1500-augmented-reality-specs/\">released instructions on exactly how to accomplish that\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the floodgates appear to be open already. Later this month, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/12/18/google-glass-face-recognition-app-coming-this-month-whether-google-likes-it-or-not/\">Forbes\u003c/a>, 24-year-old Stephen Balaban of San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"http://lambdal.com/\">Lambda Labs \u003c/a>plans to release another unauthorized app for Glass at the Chaos Communications Congress hacker conference in Hamburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balaban's FaceRec app will allow you to collect and catalog images of faces seen through the Glass lens, along with other recognizable objects such as computer screens and license plates. It will then let you integrate that data with location coordinates, so you'll have a record of who or what you saw, and when and where you saw them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the moment, Forbes says, \"Lambda’s software doesn’t capture images fast enough to identify faces in real time, and doesn’t have a database of faces and personal details to draw from – users have to identify photographed faces manually or write their own script to take the data from Facebook, which violates its terms of service.\" But eventually, as Balaban told Forbes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Facial recognition is only going to get better, and soon you’ll be able to not only look at someone you’ve met once, but people you’ve never met before, and immediately see what you have in common,” says Balaban. “You’ll be able to go to a conference and see all the engineers with Android experience or walk around at a networking event and see all the potential investors.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Balaban admits that there may be serious privacy implications, but he thinks it's a worthwhile tradeoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Some of the applications definitely outweigh the privacy issues,” he says. “This technology is very useful, whether you have Alzheimer’s and you’re forgetting your loved ones’ names, or if you’re blind and use it to recognize people at all. It’s kind of a big deal.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here is the Lambda Labs demo:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/4L1kfUAeMGE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Balaban has also developed a Glass-like, Android-based device that he calls the Lambda Hat. Described as a cap with a camera, it has a much longer battery life than Glass. On Monday, Lambda will start accepting \u003ca href=\"https://lambdahat.com/\">pre-orders\u003c/a> for the hat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government is recognizing the expansion in facial recognition technologies and the need to establish policies concerning products and usage. To that end, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration will meet in February 2014 with groups and companies to draft privacy guidelines for a rapidly growing industry. Facial recognition technology is already used by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/06/san-diego-facial-recognition-technology\">law enforcement\u003c/a>, and for commercial uses. As \u003ca href=\"http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/12/17/government-plans-facial-recognition-code-for-2014\">U.S. News & World Report\u003c/a> notes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Facebook uses facial recognition software in its photo database, as does Google for its Picasa photo design website. Consumer products using biometrics are expected to become more popular in 2014. Fingerprint scanning technology will likely become mainstream in 2014 because of \u003ca href=\"http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/12/11/study-biometric-smartphones-predicted-for-2014\">consumer demand\u003c/a> for the biometric password feature used on Apple's iPhone 5S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retailers also want the chance to develop facial recognition technology, says Mallory Duncan, general counsel for the National Retail Federation, one of the trade groups participating in the NTIA meetings. Facial detection tools could tailor an advertisement on a digital billboard to a customer, depending whether the consumer facing a kiosk is a man or woman, and depending on age range, but this is still largely an exhibit used at trade shows and none of NRF member companies have plans to use that technology, Duncan explains. Facial recognition software because is more specific and advanced than facial detection, and could be developed for security uses including store surveillance cameras to track shoplifters with an arrest record.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>rad Newsham drove a cab in San Francisco for nearly three decades and says he loved nearly everything about the job from the first day he got behind the wheel: the people, the city's beauty, the independence, the sense of experiencing something new every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bradnewsham.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Newsham\u003c/a> quit the business this year because he was down to earning a net income of five bucks an hour. Newsham's experience isn't unique — others in San Francisco's taxicab industry say they know drivers who are only netting $5 to $10 an hour. A big part of the tough economics for drivers has to do with ride-service companies like Sidecar, Uber and Lyft siphoning off business from the traditional cab companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright noborder\">\u003cimg src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2013/12/18/tip.jpg\" alt=\"Money\">\n\u003ch3>When drivers pay dispatchers, is it a tip? Or a bribe? \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/13/the-fine-line-between-a-taxi-drivers-tip-and-a-bribe/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more.\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But part of the money problem for the great majority of taxi drivers, those who rent their vehicles, is the way the business is structured. They start out in the hole every day, needing to make $100 or more just to pay the \"gate,\" or rental fee, for a 10-hour shift. They pay gas on top of that, which could easily come to $20 or $30 a shift or more. You can do the math yourself: To clear San Francisco's minimum wage of $10.55 an hour, they've got to bring in something north of $200, and probably significantly more than that, during their 10 hours on the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers get no benefits, and may be held responsible for their gate fees when they're too sick to drive. Sometimes they must pay insurance deductibles and they face fines from city taxi regulators when they violate rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you wonder how they survive, well, lots of them are just scraping by. Richard Hybels, owner of San Francisco's Metro Cab, says, \"Cab drivers can’t even get their teeth fixed. They’re poor people. It’s not an easy way to make a living by any stretch of the imagination.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the financial odds against drivers aren't long enough already, they face another daily cost that industry veterans like Newsham alternatively call \"the tip\" or \"the bribe.\" That’s the unofficial, and illegal, five to ten bucks or more that many drivers say they pay cab company dispatchers and gas attendants every shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whoever bribes the dispatcher the most tends to get the best shifts,\" says Newsham. “I’ve been in situations at companies where if you don’t tip, the dispatcher says, 'Nice to see you ... I don’t have any cabs right now ... why don’t you sit on the bench for awhile until I get one?' I have sat there for three hours waiting for him to find me a cab when I have seen people walk in, give him 20 bucks and walk right out. It’s just a fact of life in the cab world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://phantomcabdriverphites.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">cab driver Ed Healy\u003c/a> says the practice is standard throughout the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch3>More in KQED's series\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This is the third part in our series on the risks and benefits to those who sign up with networked ride services like Lyft, Sidecar and UberX, versus those who work for the traditional taxicab industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\">\u003cstrong>Part One\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> describes the growing tensions between ride services and taxi companies.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/who-pays-when-ride-share-driver-crashes\">Part Two\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> examines the insurance risks facing drivers for the ride services.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I once had a dispatcher come out there and I gave him $3 and he threw it back in my face and said, ‘That’s not a tip,'\" says Healy. \"I stopped tipping them completely, and I regularly got cars without any brakes or (that) broke down in various ways. I had one where a huge pipe dropped out of the cab and onto the ground. I had so many breakdowns, and I wondered why I had to wait three hours for somebody to come and tow. So I would say that pretty much enforced tipping is the rule.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Han, who drives for Yellow Cab, breaks down his tipping routine: $1 to the gas guy, $5 to the dispatcher in charge of issuing cabs when he goes out and $1 more when he returns to file his paperwork. That's somewhat lower than a lot of drivers, he says. \"Many drivers say $5 going out and $5 coming in to dispatchers and cashiers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emil Lawrence, a driver since 1996 who wrote the popular \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/NIGHT-CABBIE-A-lesson-in-Chinese-relations-2805327.php\" target=\"_blank\">Night Cabbie\u003c/a> column in the old San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle, lays out basically the same scenario in terms of pressure to make these payments:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you don't want to piss off anybody that can cause you problems, you have to pay it,\" he says. \"The system that’s pervasive is tips and payola before you get your taxi.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawrence says radio dispatchers will also sometimes demand money for sending lucrative airport calls a driver's way. He says at one company he used to work for, the radio dispatcher had a black book. \"He came up to me ... and said, 'Emil, I looked at my book, you owe me for two airports.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever you call it, this kind of payment, voluntary or involuntary, is against the law in San Francisco, and each violation carries a $633 fine for firms that allow it. Perhaps it's not surprising, then, that when you talk to San Francisco taxi companies, virtually all of them say that they don't allow tipping (six of the biggest companies — Yellow, Luxor, DeSoto, Metro, Royal and Town told me tipping is prohibited in their shops; two other companies, Arrow Checker and NationalVeterans, didn't return my calls).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Gillespie, general manager at Yellow Cab, said any reports of tipping at the company aren't true. \"It's not happening at Yellow Cab. If that happens I would fire the employees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Has it ever happened? \"Not to my knowledge,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I have sat there for three hours waiting for him to find me a cab when I have seen people walk in, give him 20 bucks and walk right out.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>—Brad Newsham, cab driver\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Charles Rathbone, assistant manager at Luxor, told me, \"Nobody is forced to tip.\" He says the company has signs up saying tipping isn't allowed. \"Nobody has to tip to get a better shift or cab. The cashiers and the dispatchers know we’d come down on them like a ton of bricks. If you know of somebody who says there is (a tipping requirement) please tell them to come in and see me and I promise no retaliation for complaints. Absolutely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about voluntary tipping, which is also prohibited?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the kind of thing that is almost impossible to stop\" he says. \"How do you prevent somebody from passing somebody else a dollar? It’s a very difficult thing to prevent from happening. I’m not going to say categorically that there is no tipping, but it’s certainly not anything the company gets any money from.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/125668303&color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tipping is an Expensive Reality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Hara has little doubt that these payments are a reality in San Francisco cab companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's an economist whose firm, Hara Associates, compiled \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/Draft%20SF%20DriverSurvey%2037%20Web%20version04042013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a report\u003c/a> last year on the city's taxi industry for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, or SFMTA. The firm's survey of 621 San Francisco cab drivers found that 61 percent said they always pay daily tips to other company employees. More than half of that group, 55 percent, said they pay those tips because they have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the companies for which more than 30 drivers were surveyed, the reported tips ranged from an average of $4.47 for a non-Friday or non-Saturday night shift to $8.95 for a Friday or Saturday night shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?containerId=googft-gviz-canvas&q=select+col0%2C+col1%2C+col2%2C+col3+from+10EWOm6XOitK40qidzUUyuF6ng84o_bUsO5jQnZg+order+by+col2+desc+limit+10&viz=GVIZ&t=COLUMN&uiversion=2&gco_forceIFrame=true&gco_hasLabelsColumn=true&gco_vAxes=%5B%7B%22title%22%3A%22Respondents%22%2C+%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22maxValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C+%22viewWindow%22%3A%7B%22max%22%3Anull%2C+%22min%22%3Anull%7D%2C+%22logScale%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%7B%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C+%22viewWindow%22%3A%7B%22max%22%3Anull%2C+%22min%22%3Anull%7D%2C+%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22maxValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22logScale%22%3Afalse%7D%5D&gco_useFirstColumnAsDomain=true&gco_isStacked=true&gco_booleanRole=certainty&gco_hAxis=%7B%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C+%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22maxValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22viewWindow%22%3Anull%2C+%22viewWindowMode%22%3Anull%7D&gco_legend=right&gco_title=How+often+do+you+pay+tips+to+dispatchers%2C+gas+attendants+or+other+taxi+companies%3F&gco_fontName=Arial&att=true&width=640&height=300\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tipping can be expensive, the report added, with 21 percent of drivers reporting they gave daily tips of between $10 and $20 and another 8 percent saying the gave more than $20 per shift. The highest tips came from those working lucrative weekend night shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone who drives a cab and tips dispatchers and gas attendants see that as a problem. One longtime driver who asked to remain anonymous recalls a variation on the usual practice of tipping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would have to go into a lottery, put our names in a hat, and they’d pull out these numbers, and your number would determine your chances [of getting a cab],\" he says. \"Your chances would be better if you decided to give money to the dispatcher. If you tipped, your chances are much greater to get out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this driver says he thinks that kind of tipping is OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think most people realize they should tip at least 10 to 15 percent if they like the service,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'It's not happening at Yellow Cab. If that happens I would fire the employees.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— Jim Gillespie, Yellow Cab general manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Barry Korengold, the president of the San Francisco Cab Drivers Association, says there are worse things happening in the industry right now than pressure to give dispatcher and gas attendants a tip. \"It’s not one of my big issues,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Korengold and one other driver told me that because drivers live in part on tips, it would be hypocritical not to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emil Lawrence, for one, says he currently tips because he wants to, but that's only because he owns a cab medallion (which is essentially a license to drive a cab in the city) and has greater leverage. He also said he doesn't blame all cab company employees for taking tips, as they make very little money. \"They have no benefits whatsoever, so this is the way they get their income up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Law and How It's Enforced\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked Christiane Hayashi, director of taxis and accessible services for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, whether drivers tipping taxi company employees was legal, she read from the \u003ca href=\"http://transportation.sanfranciscocode.org/downloads/code-text/II._1105.txt\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Transportation Code, Section 1105, sub-section A10,\u003c/a> in effect since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“No Permit Holder or agent of a Permit Holder may accept or solicit gifts and/or gratuities or anything of value from any Driver, other than Gate Fees, Lease Fees, payments for goods actually received, or other payments authorized by this Article. A Permit Holder or agent of a Permit Holder shall issue a receipt for any payment received from a Driver.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The ordinance covers voluntary payments, too. That means all tipping is illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That absolute ban notwithstanding, Hayashi says she's aware tipping is happening and thinks the practice varies widely from company to company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, she adds, \"The salary structure set up by the companies relies on tipping — it is my understanding that many taxi company employees receive San Francisco's minimum wage and are required to rely on tips to make an adequate salary. ... So it is a deeply ingrained institutional issue that has proven difficult to root out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some companies, drivers tip because they genuinely have a relationship with the dispatcher and it’s no big deal,\" Hayashi notes. \"In other companies, it’s definitely more of a culture where you’ve got to do this or else. And the driver who doesn’t tip might find himself having consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120383\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/12/San+Francisco-taxi-bribes-tips/rs7183_taxis_22oct2013_0125_web-hpf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-120383\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-120383\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/RS7183_Taxis_22oct2013_0125_web-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Taxis in downtown San Francisco. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxis in downtown San Francisco. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But to do something about those \"consequences,\" Hayashi says, a driver would have to file a formal report with the SFMTA. To date, she says, no one has ever been cited for violating Section 1105, sub-section A10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The drivers may complain to us, but it’s quite another matter to ask them to sign a declaration and go to an administrative hearing,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veteran driver Brad Newsham says that kind of reasoning is akin to expecting victims of the system to enforce the law. \"You’re going to blame the cab driver who makes a paltry wage for not taking down the system that has been winked at by every regulator that’s ever been,\" he asks, \"and who has thrown up their hands and says, 'There’s nothing we can do'?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other drivers say blowing the whistle would be risky. “A driver would be afraid because they’d get fired,\" says Ed Healey, who drives for DeSoto Cab. \"Nobody could survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Han, a Yellow Cab driver, agrees. “I wouldn’t want to go through that process,\" he says. \"I basically would be going on the record with something that does not look very good for the people who I depend upon to issue me a cab every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Does Tipping Happen? What the Taxi Companies Say\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"http://transportation.sanfranciscocode.org/downloads/code-text/II._1105.txt\" target=\"_blank\">a San Francisco ordinance\u003c/a>, the taxi industry practice of requiring or allowing drivers to tip dispatchers or other employees is illegal. We asked major San Francisco cab companies whether tipping takes place in their shops. Here's what they told us:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://yellowcabsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Yellow Cab\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Jim Gillespie, general manager: \"It's not happening at Yellow Cab. If that happens I would fire the employees.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.luxorcab.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Luxor Cabs\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Charles Rathbone, assistant manager: \"Nobody is forced to tip.\" What about voluntary tipping? \"It's the kind of thing that it's almost impossible to stop. ... but it’s certainly not anything the company gets any money from.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.desotosf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">DeSoto Cab\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Hansu Kim, owner: Says compulsory tipping is “almost nonexistent now,” though he acknowledges voluntary tipping continues. \"We have a lot of drivers who don’t tip, so I have to make sure there’s no consequence whether you tip or not. But how do I stop a guy who says, ‘Hey thanks for giving me the orders, here’s five bucks’?\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/take-taxi/taxi-companies/metro-cab\" target=\"_blank\">Metro Cab\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Richard Hybels, owner: \"I want it on my headstone: I’ve never taken a penny from a cabdriver as a tip.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/take-taxi/taxi-companies/royal-taxi\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Taxi\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Christopher Sweis, CEO: He says the company's preset schedule for drivers makes tipping unnecessary in terms of being assigned a cab. As for voluntary tipping, he says: \"It's a practice that we can try our best to enforce and ask our dispatchers not to take tips or ask our drivers not to tip the dispatchers. We can't control every single driver. If it's going to happen, it's going to happen.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://sftowntaxi.com/\" target=\"_blank\">SF Town Taxi\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Jacob Mayzel, manager: \"It doesn't happen with Town Taxi.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/vi/getting-around/take-taxi/taxi-companies/arrow-checker-cab\" target=\"_blank\">Arrow Checker\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> Did not respond.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfnationalcab.sftaxischool.com/\">\u003cstrong>National Veterans Cab\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> Did not respond.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Luxor driver Jeremiah Cushing says filing a formal complaint would be like asking, \"Who will step forward so [they] can be shot first? Why don’t I just emboss a scarlet T on my chest? I would just be a total outcast.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bucking the System\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cushing's got another solution to the tipping problem, though: Just refuse to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most people do five dollars in, five dollars out,\" he says, citing what a company cashier told him, i.e., tipping $5 both at the beginning and end of their shifts. \"I started doing the math on it. ... At the end of the year, it was a lot of money in my pocket going to the unknown ... I said, 'Screw this, I'm not paying any of these guys. ... Other drivers have told me, 'You’re going to need these cashiers, they’re going to provide you a car.' I said, 'No — I do not need them, they need me.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cushing said he hasn't been tipping anyone but the gas guys for more than a year. \"If you ask me why I tip the gas guys, I can't give you a logical answer,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked him if there had been any consequences to his one-man rebellion. He said there had been some minor incidents, including one in which he was assigned a spare cab, typically the vehicle in the worst condition on the lot. He refused to drive it and went home, he said, but there were no other repercussions. \"They have such a shortage of drivers now, I don’t get messed with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ray of Hope for Drivers?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Metro Cab and Green Cab are two taxi outfits drivers routinely mention as prohibiting tipping. When I asked Metro owner Richard Hybels what's behind his policy, he said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of the people who work for me are supporting families, or supporting families in another country. It’s a tough business as it is. I make enough money in the normal parts of the business; I don’t need to squeeze any more out of them. ... I want it on my headstone: I’ve never taken a penny from a cabdriver as a tip.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former \"Night Cabbie\" columnist Emil Lawrence says many gas-and-gate cab drivers are on the economic margins and that he knows drivers who are living in \u003ca href=\"http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/topics/housing_choice_voucher_program_section_8\" target=\"_blank\">Section 8 housing\u003c/a> and receiving food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They pay the cab company nonstop, they pay everybody tips nonstop,\" Lawrence says. \"They don't even make minimum wage on some nights, and if they don't pay, they don't have gas, they don't have a job the next day. ... What they make after paying the SFMTA and cab companies, you couldn't make a decent living in downtown Baghdad today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been in that situation,\" he says. \"It's like quicksand.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the balance of power between cab drivers and cab companies may be starting to tilt in the drivers' favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA consultant Dan Hara says a downturn in the cab business brought about by the rise of ride-service companies has at least temporarily reduced the pressure to tip, because cab companies are having problems filling shifts, a reality confirmed by others in the industry. (Though I recently asked three different drivers during cab rides if they currently tipped taxi company employees, and they all said they did.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many cab drivers are irate about Sidecar, Lyft and Uber \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">cutting into their business\u003c/a>, many others are quitting the cab business to drive with what regulators call \"transportation network companies (TNCs)\" — the very ride-service companies that compete with their cabs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Before TNCs, some drivers tipped extensively to get out faster in nicer cars,\" says John Han. \"Now, I'm guessing some of those drivers have gone to TNCs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, one of my recent cab drivers cited the requirement to tip as a major reason he was quitting to go work for Uber. (\"If you get an airport call, the guys ask you for money after and if you don't give you won't get another airport call,\" he said.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'The drivers may complain to us but it’s quite another matter to ask them to sign a declaration...'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— Christiane Hayashi, Director of Taxis at SFMTA\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I kept asking the drivers if the Lyfts and Sidecars of the world could actually end up \u003cem>helping\u003c/em> them, as they potentially give drivers more leverage in dealing with the cab companies. John Han, for instance, says Yellow recently lowered its Saturday night gate fee for drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some scoffed at the notion that anything good could result from the competition or that they would ever switch to a TNC, citing the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/who-pays-when-ride-share-driver-crashes\" target=\"_blank\">insurance risk\u003c/a>, among other reasons. But not everyone felt that way. Brad Newsham said if he were giving advice to a young would-be driver today, he'd tell them to skip traditional taxis and go to work for a ride-service company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emil Lawrence told me there might be something for the average driver to gain from going to work for a ride-service firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know drivers right now who work for cab companies at the same time they work for Uber,\" he says. \"Radio calls are down probably 70 percent now. They’re down on Friday even more. You’re talking about 10-15 minutes sometimes with no call at all. It’s all on the apps. If you’re a cab driver with a taxi, at the same time you have an Uber setup, that may be the new industry. But you can (also) do that same business in your own car at your own hours without paying the taxi company one dime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View SF Taxi Driver Survey on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/192372483/SF-Taxi-Driver-Survey\">SF Taxi Driver Survey\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe id=\"doc_39345\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/192372483/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Lisa Pickoff-White, Bryan Goebel and Katrina Schwartz contributed reporting to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the financial odds against drivers aren't long enough already, they face another daily cost that industry veterans like Newsham alternatively call \"the tip\" or \"the bribe.\" That’s the unofficial, and illegal, five to ten bucks or more that many drivers say they pay cab company dispatchers and gas attendants every shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whoever bribes the dispatcher the most tends to get the best shifts,\" says Newsham. “I’ve been in situations at companies where if you don’t tip, the dispatcher says, 'Nice to see you ... I don’t have any cabs right now ... why don’t you sit on the bench for awhile until I get one?' I have sat there for three hours waiting for him to find me a cab when I have seen people walk in, give him 20 bucks and walk right out. It’s just a fact of life in the cab world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://phantomcabdriverphites.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">cab driver Ed Healy\u003c/a> says the practice is standard throughout the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch3>More in KQED's series\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This is the third part in our series on the risks and benefits to those who sign up with networked ride services like Lyft, Sidecar and UberX, versus those who work for the traditional taxicab industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\">\u003cstrong>Part One\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> describes the growing tensions between ride services and taxi companies.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/who-pays-when-ride-share-driver-crashes\">Part Two\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> examines the insurance risks facing drivers for the ride services.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I once had a dispatcher come out there and I gave him $3 and he threw it back in my face and said, ‘That’s not a tip,'\" says Healy. \"I stopped tipping them completely, and I regularly got cars without any brakes or (that) broke down in various ways. I had one where a huge pipe dropped out of the cab and onto the ground. I had so many breakdowns, and I wondered why I had to wait three hours for somebody to come and tow. So I would say that pretty much enforced tipping is the rule.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Han, who drives for Yellow Cab, breaks down his tipping routine: $1 to the gas guy, $5 to the dispatcher in charge of issuing cabs when he goes out and $1 more when he returns to file his paperwork. That's somewhat lower than a lot of drivers, he says. \"Many drivers say $5 going out and $5 coming in to dispatchers and cashiers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emil Lawrence, a driver since 1996 who wrote the popular \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/NIGHT-CABBIE-A-lesson-in-Chinese-relations-2805327.php\" target=\"_blank\">Night Cabbie\u003c/a> column in the old San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle, lays out basically the same scenario in terms of pressure to make these payments:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you don't want to piss off anybody that can cause you problems, you have to pay it,\" he says. \"The system that’s pervasive is tips and payola before you get your taxi.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawrence says radio dispatchers will also sometimes demand money for sending lucrative airport calls a driver's way. He says at one company he used to work for, the radio dispatcher had a black book. \"He came up to me ... and said, 'Emil, I looked at my book, you owe me for two airports.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever you call it, this kind of payment, voluntary or involuntary, is against the law in San Francisco, and each violation carries a $633 fine for firms that allow it. Perhaps it's not surprising, then, that when you talk to San Francisco taxi companies, virtually all of them say that they don't allow tipping (six of the biggest companies — Yellow, Luxor, DeSoto, Metro, Royal and Town told me tipping is prohibited in their shops; two other companies, Arrow Checker and NationalVeterans, didn't return my calls).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Gillespie, general manager at Yellow Cab, said any reports of tipping at the company aren't true. \"It's not happening at Yellow Cab. If that happens I would fire the employees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Has it ever happened? \"Not to my knowledge,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I have sat there for three hours waiting for him to find me a cab when I have seen people walk in, give him 20 bucks and walk right out.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>—Brad Newsham, cab driver\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Charles Rathbone, assistant manager at Luxor, told me, \"Nobody is forced to tip.\" He says the company has signs up saying tipping isn't allowed. \"Nobody has to tip to get a better shift or cab. The cashiers and the dispatchers know we’d come down on them like a ton of bricks. If you know of somebody who says there is (a tipping requirement) please tell them to come in and see me and I promise no retaliation for complaints. Absolutely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about voluntary tipping, which is also prohibited?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the kind of thing that is almost impossible to stop\" he says. \"How do you prevent somebody from passing somebody else a dollar? It’s a very difficult thing to prevent from happening. I’m not going to say categorically that there is no tipping, but it’s certainly not anything the company gets any money from.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/125668303&color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tipping is an Expensive Reality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Hara has little doubt that these payments are a reality in San Francisco cab companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's an economist whose firm, Hara Associates, compiled \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/Draft%20SF%20DriverSurvey%2037%20Web%20version04042013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a report\u003c/a> last year on the city's taxi industry for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, or SFMTA. The firm's survey of 621 San Francisco cab drivers found that 61 percent said they always pay daily tips to other company employees. More than half of that group, 55 percent, said they pay those tips because they have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the companies for which more than 30 drivers were surveyed, the reported tips ranged from an average of $4.47 for a non-Friday or non-Saturday night shift to $8.95 for a Friday or Saturday night shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?containerId=googft-gviz-canvas&q=select+col0%2C+col1%2C+col2%2C+col3+from+10EWOm6XOitK40qidzUUyuF6ng84o_bUsO5jQnZg+order+by+col2+desc+limit+10&viz=GVIZ&t=COLUMN&uiversion=2&gco_forceIFrame=true&gco_hasLabelsColumn=true&gco_vAxes=%5B%7B%22title%22%3A%22Respondents%22%2C+%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22maxValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C+%22viewWindow%22%3A%7B%22max%22%3Anull%2C+%22min%22%3Anull%7D%2C+%22logScale%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%7B%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C+%22viewWindow%22%3A%7B%22max%22%3Anull%2C+%22min%22%3Anull%7D%2C+%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22maxValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22logScale%22%3Afalse%7D%5D&gco_useFirstColumnAsDomain=true&gco_isStacked=true&gco_booleanRole=certainty&gco_hAxis=%7B%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C+%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22maxValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22viewWindow%22%3Anull%2C+%22viewWindowMode%22%3Anull%7D&gco_legend=right&gco_title=How+often+do+you+pay+tips+to+dispatchers%2C+gas+attendants+or+other+taxi+companies%3F&gco_fontName=Arial&att=true&width=640&height=300\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tipping can be expensive, the report added, with 21 percent of drivers reporting they gave daily tips of between $10 and $20 and another 8 percent saying the gave more than $20 per shift. The highest tips came from those working lucrative weekend night shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone who drives a cab and tips dispatchers and gas attendants see that as a problem. One longtime driver who asked to remain anonymous recalls a variation on the usual practice of tipping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would have to go into a lottery, put our names in a hat, and they’d pull out these numbers, and your number would determine your chances [of getting a cab],\" he says. \"Your chances would be better if you decided to give money to the dispatcher. If you tipped, your chances are much greater to get out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this driver says he thinks that kind of tipping is OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think most people realize they should tip at least 10 to 15 percent if they like the service,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'It's not happening at Yellow Cab. If that happens I would fire the employees.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— Jim Gillespie, Yellow Cab general manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Barry Korengold, the president of the San Francisco Cab Drivers Association, says there are worse things happening in the industry right now than pressure to give dispatcher and gas attendants a tip. \"It’s not one of my big issues,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Korengold and one other driver told me that because drivers live in part on tips, it would be hypocritical not to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emil Lawrence, for one, says he currently tips because he wants to, but that's only because he owns a cab medallion (which is essentially a license to drive a cab in the city) and has greater leverage. He also said he doesn't blame all cab company employees for taking tips, as they make very little money. \"They have no benefits whatsoever, so this is the way they get their income up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Law and How It's Enforced\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked Christiane Hayashi, director of taxis and accessible services for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, whether drivers tipping taxi company employees was legal, she read from the \u003ca href=\"http://transportation.sanfranciscocode.org/downloads/code-text/II._1105.txt\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Transportation Code, Section 1105, sub-section A10,\u003c/a> in effect since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“No Permit Holder or agent of a Permit Holder may accept or solicit gifts and/or gratuities or anything of value from any Driver, other than Gate Fees, Lease Fees, payments for goods actually received, or other payments authorized by this Article. A Permit Holder or agent of a Permit Holder shall issue a receipt for any payment received from a Driver.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The ordinance covers voluntary payments, too. That means all tipping is illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That absolute ban notwithstanding, Hayashi says she's aware tipping is happening and thinks the practice varies widely from company to company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, she adds, \"The salary structure set up by the companies relies on tipping — it is my understanding that many taxi company employees receive San Francisco's minimum wage and are required to rely on tips to make an adequate salary. ... So it is a deeply ingrained institutional issue that has proven difficult to root out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some companies, drivers tip because they genuinely have a relationship with the dispatcher and it’s no big deal,\" Hayashi notes. \"In other companies, it’s definitely more of a culture where you’ve got to do this or else. And the driver who doesn’t tip might find himself having consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120383\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/12/San+Francisco-taxi-bribes-tips/rs7183_taxis_22oct2013_0125_web-hpf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-120383\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-120383\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/RS7183_Taxis_22oct2013_0125_web-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Taxis in downtown San Francisco. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxis in downtown San Francisco. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But to do something about those \"consequences,\" Hayashi says, a driver would have to file a formal report with the SFMTA. To date, she says, no one has ever been cited for violating Section 1105, sub-section A10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The drivers may complain to us, but it’s quite another matter to ask them to sign a declaration and go to an administrative hearing,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veteran driver Brad Newsham says that kind of reasoning is akin to expecting victims of the system to enforce the law. \"You’re going to blame the cab driver who makes a paltry wage for not taking down the system that has been winked at by every regulator that’s ever been,\" he asks, \"and who has thrown up their hands and says, 'There’s nothing we can do'?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other drivers say blowing the whistle would be risky. “A driver would be afraid because they’d get fired,\" says Ed Healey, who drives for DeSoto Cab. \"Nobody could survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Han, a Yellow Cab driver, agrees. “I wouldn’t want to go through that process,\" he says. \"I basically would be going on the record with something that does not look very good for the people who I depend upon to issue me a cab every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Does Tipping Happen? What the Taxi Companies Say\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"http://transportation.sanfranciscocode.org/downloads/code-text/II._1105.txt\" target=\"_blank\">a San Francisco ordinance\u003c/a>, the taxi industry practice of requiring or allowing drivers to tip dispatchers or other employees is illegal. We asked major San Francisco cab companies whether tipping takes place in their shops. Here's what they told us:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://yellowcabsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Yellow Cab\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Jim Gillespie, general manager: \"It's not happening at Yellow Cab. If that happens I would fire the employees.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.luxorcab.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Luxor Cabs\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Charles Rathbone, assistant manager: \"Nobody is forced to tip.\" What about voluntary tipping? \"It's the kind of thing that it's almost impossible to stop. ... but it’s certainly not anything the company gets any money from.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.desotosf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">DeSoto Cab\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Hansu Kim, owner: Says compulsory tipping is “almost nonexistent now,” though he acknowledges voluntary tipping continues. \"We have a lot of drivers who don’t tip, so I have to make sure there’s no consequence whether you tip or not. But how do I stop a guy who says, ‘Hey thanks for giving me the orders, here’s five bucks’?\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/take-taxi/taxi-companies/metro-cab\" target=\"_blank\">Metro Cab\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Richard Hybels, owner: \"I want it on my headstone: I’ve never taken a penny from a cabdriver as a tip.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/take-taxi/taxi-companies/royal-taxi\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Taxi\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Christopher Sweis, CEO: He says the company's preset schedule for drivers makes tipping unnecessary in terms of being assigned a cab. As for voluntary tipping, he says: \"It's a practice that we can try our best to enforce and ask our dispatchers not to take tips or ask our drivers not to tip the dispatchers. We can't control every single driver. If it's going to happen, it's going to happen.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://sftowntaxi.com/\" target=\"_blank\">SF Town Taxi\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Jacob Mayzel, manager: \"It doesn't happen with Town Taxi.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/vi/getting-around/take-taxi/taxi-companies/arrow-checker-cab\" target=\"_blank\">Arrow Checker\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> Did not respond.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfnationalcab.sftaxischool.com/\">\u003cstrong>National Veterans Cab\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> Did not respond.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Luxor driver Jeremiah Cushing says filing a formal complaint would be like asking, \"Who will step forward so [they] can be shot first? Why don’t I just emboss a scarlet T on my chest? I would just be a total outcast.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bucking the System\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cushing's got another solution to the tipping problem, though: Just refuse to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most people do five dollars in, five dollars out,\" he says, citing what a company cashier told him, i.e., tipping $5 both at the beginning and end of their shifts. \"I started doing the math on it. ... At the end of the year, it was a lot of money in my pocket going to the unknown ... I said, 'Screw this, I'm not paying any of these guys. ... Other drivers have told me, 'You’re going to need these cashiers, they’re going to provide you a car.' I said, 'No — I do not need them, they need me.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cushing said he hasn't been tipping anyone but the gas guys for more than a year. \"If you ask me why I tip the gas guys, I can't give you a logical answer,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked him if there had been any consequences to his one-man rebellion. He said there had been some minor incidents, including one in which he was assigned a spare cab, typically the vehicle in the worst condition on the lot. He refused to drive it and went home, he said, but there were no other repercussions. \"They have such a shortage of drivers now, I don’t get messed with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ray of Hope for Drivers?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Metro Cab and Green Cab are two taxi outfits drivers routinely mention as prohibiting tipping. When I asked Metro owner Richard Hybels what's behind his policy, he said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of the people who work for me are supporting families, or supporting families in another country. It’s a tough business as it is. I make enough money in the normal parts of the business; I don’t need to squeeze any more out of them. ... I want it on my headstone: I’ve never taken a penny from a cabdriver as a tip.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former \"Night Cabbie\" columnist Emil Lawrence says many gas-and-gate cab drivers are on the economic margins and that he knows drivers who are living in \u003ca href=\"http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/topics/housing_choice_voucher_program_section_8\" target=\"_blank\">Section 8 housing\u003c/a> and receiving food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They pay the cab company nonstop, they pay everybody tips nonstop,\" Lawrence says. \"They don't even make minimum wage on some nights, and if they don't pay, they don't have gas, they don't have a job the next day. ... What they make after paying the SFMTA and cab companies, you couldn't make a decent living in downtown Baghdad today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been in that situation,\" he says. \"It's like quicksand.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the balance of power between cab drivers and cab companies may be starting to tilt in the drivers' favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA consultant Dan Hara says a downturn in the cab business brought about by the rise of ride-service companies has at least temporarily reduced the pressure to tip, because cab companies are having problems filling shifts, a reality confirmed by others in the industry. (Though I recently asked three different drivers during cab rides if they currently tipped taxi company employees, and they all said they did.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many cab drivers are irate about Sidecar, Lyft and Uber \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">cutting into their business\u003c/a>, many others are quitting the cab business to drive with what regulators call \"transportation network companies (TNCs)\" — the very ride-service companies that compete with their cabs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Before TNCs, some drivers tipped extensively to get out faster in nicer cars,\" says John Han. \"Now, I'm guessing some of those drivers have gone to TNCs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, one of my recent cab drivers cited the requirement to tip as a major reason he was quitting to go work for Uber. (\"If you get an airport call, the guys ask you for money after and if you don't give you won't get another airport call,\" he said.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'The drivers may complain to us but it’s quite another matter to ask them to sign a declaration...'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— Christiane Hayashi, Director of Taxis at SFMTA\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I kept asking the drivers if the Lyfts and Sidecars of the world could actually end up \u003cem>helping\u003c/em> them, as they potentially give drivers more leverage in dealing with the cab companies. John Han, for instance, says Yellow recently lowered its Saturday night gate fee for drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some scoffed at the notion that anything good could result from the competition or that they would ever switch to a TNC, citing the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/who-pays-when-ride-share-driver-crashes\" target=\"_blank\">insurance risk\u003c/a>, among other reasons. But not everyone felt that way. Brad Newsham said if he were giving advice to a young would-be driver today, he'd tell them to skip traditional taxis and go to work for a ride-service company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emil Lawrence told me there might be something for the average driver to gain from going to work for a ride-service firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know drivers right now who work for cab companies at the same time they work for Uber,\" he says. \"Radio calls are down probably 70 percent now. They’re down on Friday even more. You’re talking about 10-15 minutes sometimes with no call at all. It’s all on the apps. If you’re a cab driver with a taxi, at the same time you have an Uber setup, that may be the new industry. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/13/draft-the-fine-line-between-a-taxi-drivers-tip-and-a-bribe/rs7181_taxis_22oct2013_0065_web-hpf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-120900\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-120900\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS7181_Taxis_22oct2013_0065_web-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Sara Bloomberg/KQED) \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A taxi driver gives five or 10 bucks to a dispatcher at the beginning of a shift — to get the right cab at the right time, to get lucrative calls during the day, or just because that's the way the business works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is that a tip? Or a bribe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scu.edu/ethics/about/people/directors/business/balassone/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Balassone\u003c/a> directs the business ethics programs at Santa Clara University's\u003ca href=\"http://www.scu.edu/ethics/\" target=\"_blank\"> Markkula Center for Applied Ethics\u003c/a>. I asked him whether the money changing hands is properly classified as a \"bribe\" as opposed to a \"tip.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says one person's tip can be another person's bribe. But given the way the system works — with many drivers reporting they feel they must pay gratuities to other cab company employees and that there's a quid pro quo involved, Balassone's got an opinion about what we're looking at here.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Either get rid of the law or enforce it. You have laws and don’t enforce them, then people get cynical.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>—Jim Balassone, Santa Clara University ethicist\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It sure appears like a bribe to me, given the views of the cab drivers,” he says. \"A tip comes after the service. There’s no implied reciprocity. I don’t give this to you so [you don't give me] a clunker and I don’t spend half my shift waiting for a repair.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balassone says he thinks the amount of cash changing hands also matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it was a couple of dollars, it’s an acknowledgment that you exist and you help me earn my money and I appreciate it,\" he says. \"If you told me it was $20, given the amount of money involved, that sounds like it’s a pay-to-play.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the ethicist's view. How do things look from inside the industry?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a combination,\" says Emil Lawrence, a veteran driver who once had a newspaper column called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/A-farewell-to-fares-column-deadlines-and-2627147.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Night Cabbie\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"25192029105fd5d85975922bb7206259\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you feel that you’re not going to get any business from the cab company unless you have to pay them, it’s a bribe,\" he says. \"If you feel that, hey you’re getting business already and you’re tipping them for extra business, then it’s a tip. The problem is in the majority of cases you don’t get anything unless you give them money. I’ve worked for eight or nine cab companies, and every cab company has their own unique situation, but every one of them, I never got my taxi unless I paid an implied tip, which was actually a bribe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One driver who said he wanted to remain anonymous because he is afraid of repercussions at work, sums up the fine line on this issue: He says he tips the guys in charge of the cabs \"essentially so they'll like me. In principle, it's similar to tipping a waiter/waitress for good service, but the consequences for not tipping may be greater. If I am sick one day and have to ask if they can find another driver to cover my shift, they'll be more likely to do it because they know I'm a regular tipper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, I'd prefer not to tip,\" he says. \"But the dispatchers don't earn much salary so they deserve tips. But at the same time, they also have enormous power over cab drivers since the cab companies give them the power to issue the cabs. It should be plain to see then where the abuse can occur. Cab companies will show good PR manners about this in any interview with the press. They've downplayed it before by saying tipping is simply etiquette and cab culture. But I honestly don't think they really care as long as drivers pay their gates.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tip versus bribe discussion glosses over one central point: Whatever you call these payments, they're illegal under a city ordinance, and cab companies are liable for violations. But officials at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency responsible for enforcing the law say they can't prosecute anyone without driver complaints. And drivers, in turn, are reluctant to blow the whistle on the companies because it could threaten their livelihood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balassone says whether the gratuities are tips or bribes, the real question is what's going to be done about the practice. \"If you rationalize it, it doesn’t go away, it doesn’t reach a level of import so that someone thinks they have to do something,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is wrong from an ethical standpoint. One of my thoughts is, 'Enforce the law.' Either get rid of the law or enforce it. You have laws and don’t enforce [them], then people get cynical. I would figure out a way that the cab company would have a huge fine if there was money being taken from the cab drivers. You fine two people 10 grand, you will fix the problem. There has to be a will to do that, follow-up, and some courage.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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