Hi everybody. Welcome to Shifts, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter at the Automotive News.

Hi everybody, it's Leslie Allen, editor of Shift magazine.

And it's Alexa St. John, covering Tech and Suppliers.

Joining us on the podcast in just a few minutes today

is Jack Weast, the senior principal engineer at Intel

and vice president of Automated Vehicle Standards at Mobile.

I got a lot of topics to cover with Jack about advances in driver assist technology,

how move it fits into Intel and mobilize big autonomous vehicle picture,

mathematical thoughts on safety and the whole lot more.

But first today, obviously we're in an election week, a lot of big transportation

topics on the ballot.

Alexa, probably none bigger than the one that you covered with Prop 22 in California.

How did that affect Uber and Lyft going forward?

Well, that two-year legal battle that Uber Lift and other gig worker employees out in California has finally come to an end.

Last Tuesday's vote affirmed the Proposition 22 ballot proposal and that's a

proposal that Uber, Lyft, Door Dash, and a few others backed with more than $200 million to ensure that they would be able to continue

to classify their drivers as contract workers rather than being forced to classify them as employees.

We know this has been going on in the courts for quite some time and it seemed as if Uber Lyft kind of took things into their own

hands in order to back this proposal they have been advocating advertising

for weeks we've even heard that they've been sending out

notifications so their drivers and their riders on the app out in California. And so

you know ultimately it'll be interesting what implications

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