Corrections & verification log

Three claims in our structured data were not true. The homepage declared itself an interactive lookup application carrying a price, on a page with no form, input or dropdown anywhere in it. A profile list was published as an empty set, which positively asserts "this organisation has no other profiles" rather than simply not saying. And a voice-assistant selector pointed at a section that existed on none of the 119 pages. These are claims aimed at machines rather than readers, but a false claim is a false claim.

Now reads: The application and price claims are gone, the empty profile list is absent rather than empty, and the remaining voice selectors point at sections that actually exist

Source: Verified against the built HTML of every page before changing anything

Every page on this site says training facts come from each state's own DMV, its statutes, or its state-run rider-training programme. Alaska's training section also cited A.B.A.T.E. of Alaska, a private advocacy non-profit that runs courses — not a state programme. The facts were accurate, but our description of their source was not, for this one state.

Now reads: Alaska's training section rests on the Division of Motor Vehicles' own page alone: Alaska has no statewide programme, the Division accepts a Motorcycle Safety Foundation certificate in place of the road test, and it lists its road-test partners by name

Source: Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles — Motorcycle License, re-read 2026-09-28

Before acting on an audit of our structured data, each finding was checked against the built HTML rather than taken on trust.

Result: One of the audit's claims was itself wrong and another was misleadingly phrased. Worth recording: a naive search for the missing section appeared to find it on 112 pages, because the text occurred inside the structured-data block that referenced it. The finding survived only because it was tested properly.

Checked what the 51 state pages actually rendered against what the dataset held.

Result: Around 79,000 characters of sourced detail were being held and never displayed. Now rendered. Data that is collected and not shown is not published.

A permit holding period is recorded for 13 of the 51 jurisdictions, and no record on this site has yet been through a second human verification pass.

Result: Incomplete, and stated rather than hidden. Where a holding period is unknown the page leaves it blank instead of inferring one from a neighbouring state — a blank is honest, an inference is not.

Fetched every source this site cites and checked that each page still says the thing we cite it for, not merely that it loads.

Result: 381 confirmed. Three states' agencies had moved pages (Arizona, West Virginia, Montana's code index) and were re-pointed and re-read. Rhode Island's course provider had rewritten its pages: the $295 fee and 16-hour length still hold, but a $60 retake fee and a $60 skills retest we described are no longer published anywhere, so we removed them, and Arizona no longer limits unlimited test attempts to 12 months. New York's and Rhode Island's DMV sites now block automated checks; those pages were confirmed in July and New York's permit page again from an August archive copy.