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?!
They released actual data in line with the NHTSA regulations. If the data is falsified that’d be illegal. Do you have a reason to think otherwise?
https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-order-crash-reporting
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?
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?!