If the data is falsified that’d be illegal.

Oh no! It would be illegal!

And what would be the punishment if it was found out that they released illegal data? A fine that could amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars? On top of their tens of millions of dollars of profits?

Do you have a reason to think otherwise?

Yes, they are directly incentivized to either push their data in a biased direction or outright falsify their numbers, in order to facilitate the marketing strategy of these taxis being a "safe" technology, and increase their profit margin.

Fuck... have we learned nothing from the tobacco industry?!