Exactly. The taxi driver was following the instruction of his passenger to keep driving. Once inside and the driver had put the clock on, the passengers were his responsibility to get from A-B. Keanu was only on foot so once he got on the open road Keanu wouldn’t be able to keep up. It wasn’t like Keanu was chasing in a car
Any taxi driver willing to kick out a woman and small child just because some random man was running after his vehicle (and not from something that the passenger herself was doing inside the cab) shouldn’t have a taxi licence