What the filings leave out

A redaction here is not a refusal to answer a regulator. The carriers file these datasets under penalty of perjury and the regulator sees them; what is withheld is withheld from the public copy. So nothing on this page is evidence of non-compliance. It is evidence of what the public is not allowed to check.

Some of it is obviously right. A vehicle identification number and a coordinate pair identify a specific car on a specific street, and publishing them would say more about a passenger than about a company. Some of it is harder to defend: the time of day a collision happened, and the section of the vehicle code a robotaxi was cited under, name nobody at all. The pattern is published here without a verdict attached, because the point is that the pattern is legible.

Counted against real rows, never against the file. The state’s incident template pads each filing with millions of blank rows and pre-fills their private columns with a redaction notice. Counting those made the index read as twenty-four million withheld fields, a number about a template rather than about a company. How every figure here is computed.