It has to be fixed through regulation. The free market does not support long term, expensive solutions, such as APIs. If you provide the bike with a public AP

It has to be fixed through regulation. The free market does not support long term, expensive solutions, such as APIs. If you provide the bike with a public API, it’s going to cost more. You now need to actually test the API works, instead of simply testing the bike works, end-to-end, with your own software. A stable API with supported version changes and backwards compatibility is a much more challenging engineering prospect. Forever ‘twas this. Maybe they can start by using something like an automotive CAN bus.