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[Music] Close your eyes in 2025 and imagine, if you will, the idea of routinely relying upon a complete and
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total stranger to give you a ride to school, work, or any other destination. Well, in a sense, we already do that
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with the advent of ride share services such as Uber and Lyft, but those companies at minimum have some type of
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guard rails built into their business model, however weak they may be in reality. In the 1970s, there were no
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apps or cell phones or any services such as these. So cashstrapped individuals, primarily
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students and young people, frequently relied upon another age-old method to get where they needed to go.
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Hitchhiking. in the United States.