 She called an Uber, she got in and she got out of there. That would not have been possible just five years before that. My name is Michael Farron. I'm a research fellow at the Mercatus Center. Probably the biggest victory I've had in my research so far has been to educate policymakers in the public on taxi regulations and Uber regulations and how essentially taxi regulations were the textbook example of how an industry manages to capture regulations to serve its own interests rather than general welfare. I'm not saying that the regulations regarding Uber and Lyft that have come out from the last few years have been absolutely perfect, but they've allowed for a lot more transportation services to be provided. That's an industry that has been absolutely stagnant over the last 80 years. And this has real impact on ordinary people. In fact, one of my own research assistants was training for a marathon and stopped at a convenience store on her way home to grab a Gatorade. And as she was leaving the convenience store, she noticed kind of a sketchy looking guy following her out and following her home. And she didn't want the guy to know where she lived. Her sixth sense was up and said like this is not a good situation. So she grabbed her phone, she called an Uber, she got in and she got out of there. That would not have been possible just five years before that. And so the research that we're doing today has a real impact on everyday people's lives. And that makes me really happy.