{
  "review_date": "2026-10-15",
  "coverage": "Partial U.S. company-location inventory, not exhaustive. Current status means supporting evidence is recent, not live telemetry.",
  "unresolved": [
    {
      "company_name": "Tortoise",
      "disposition": "Excluded from autonomous deployment counts",
      "reason": "Located reports describe remotely human-steered retail robots; autonomous driving not established. Historical retail partners do not establish current operations.",
      "source_url": "https://www.axios.com/2022/03/16/the-first-remote-controlled-store-on-wheels"
    },
    {
      "company_name": "Vayu Robotics",
      "disposition": "Location unresolved",
      "reason": "Official July 23, 2024 release describes a commercial agreement and real-world applications without naming a deployed U.S. customer city. San Francisco dateline is not operating-area evidence; no fabricated city record.",
      "source_url": "https://www.vayurobotics.com/press-releases/vayu-robotics-debuts-the-worlds-first-on-road-delivery-robot-powered-by-ai-robotics-foundation-models"
    },
    {
      "company_name": "Applied Intuition",
      "disposition": "U.S. operating location not established in this pass",
      "reason": "Official product and partnership materials establish autonomy development but do not establish a specific U.S. company-operated location. Saudi deployment plans and headquarters are not U.S. city evidence.",
      "source_url": "https://www.appliedintuition.com/autonomous-trucking"
    },
    {
      "company_name": "Luminar",
      "disposition": "Supplier, not independently established local fleet operator",
      "reason": "Lidar supply/R&D does not establish a local autonomous service. Recent company filing describes deteriorated Volvo relationship; no active deployment inferred from historical supply agreements.",
      "source_url": "https://investors.luminartech.com/sec-filings/all-sec-filings/content/0001140361-26-003048/ef20064325_ex99-2.htm"
    },
    {
      "company_name": "Ouster",
      "disposition": "Supplier, not independently established local fleet operator",
      "reason": "Motional and Plus supply agreements establish component relationships, not Ouster-operated city service or city-specific supplier revenue.",
      "source_url": "https://investors.ouster.com/news-releases/news-release-details/ouster-awarded-production-win-motional-be-exclusive-supplier"
    }
  ],
  "open_issues": [
    "Existing 62-record research import retains attributed source claims from the earlier work. This integration pass spot-checked California DMV, Coco, May Mobility and newly appended sources; not every imported claim or publication date has been independently re-audited.",
    "All-known-city coverage is not established for any provider. Permits, current operations and fares require ongoing separate review.",
    "Zoox Las Vegas fare status conflicting/unresolved; public service supported but revenue unknown.",
    "MOIA Los Angeles county scope and Orlando Lake Nona scope use representative city centers; supervision outside Austin is not independently established.",
    "Stack AV New Stanton is a low-confidence recruitment signal, not proof of deployed testing.",
    "Freight route endpoints share a corridor; company-location counts are not vehicle, fleet or route counts.",
    "Many delivery and industrial entries are historical; do not assume they stopped, continued or earn revenue now.",
    "Consumer ADAS and supplier customers are not automatically counted as autonomous fleet deployments.",
    "Coco named-city claims await city-specific verification; current activity/revenue are unknown. Torc New Mexico activity is also unknown. MOIA supervision outside Austin is provisional and lower confidence."
  ]
}