Overview
- Tesla filed five additional incident reports for December and January, bringing the total to 14 since the June 2025 launch and roughly one crash every 92,000 kilometers across about 1.3 million kilometers of service.
- Electrek’s analysis of NHTSA data indicates the robotaxis crash about four times as often as human drivers, with some federal comparisons suggesting closer to eight times depending on the metric used.
- NHTSA filings include an update that a 2025 collision involved a hospitalization after initially being logged as property damage only.
- Tesla’s public submissions to NHTSA largely black out crash narratives as confidential business information, limiting clarity on circumstances and fault.
- The Austin deployment remains narrow, with only a few dozen vehicles, very limited truly unattended operations within a small mapped area, and weather-related suspensions linked to Tesla’s camera-only approach.