Stephen Dubner

I just made all types of assumptions.

Oh, my God.

So he was going on and on about his stuff.

And I think I even think I even said his name wrong.

I didn't know who he was.

And I felt like, you know, when you have egg in your face, like I had to pick up my face and put it back on because I was like, embarrassing.

Because you were giving him a hard time.

I was giving him a hard time.

I think.

He has to say to you, I don't work for Waymo.

I was like, well, okay, then.

I'm still mad at you, though.

It was embarrassing.

I mean, you know what it was?

It was like because it sounded like he worked for Waymo because he was there advocating fiercely for that community in ways that made me feel like he was part of their team.

I think that if I try to sympathize with the feeling Councilor Mejia is expressing here, this is how I understand it.

It can be annoying when the other side is a mix of people you're allowed to dismiss out of hand, tech executives, allied with people you're not, disability advocates.

And when those advocates are all saying similar things, when it's your people, that sounds like solidarity.

When it's them, it can sound phony.

It can sound orchestrated.