Ever forgotten your bag or valuables in an auto or a taxi but got it back due to the efforts of an honest driver? Well, then you must be among the lucky few. Most Mumbaikars tend to think of autorickshaw and taxi drivers as crooks who, given a chance, will gladly take an unwitting passenger for a ride. And they are not entirely wrong. mid-day carried out a small experiment to investigate how upright the city’s auto drivers and cabbies are, and shockingly, nearly all failed to pass our honesty test.

This piece of imitation jewellery  was used to test the honesty levels of cabbies. Pic/Shadab Khan