# Tesla safety record

26 incident(s) on file for Tesla, rolled up across its models and deployments (operated or manufactured). Retracted claims are excluded from this count but remain reachable at their own canonical URLs.

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## Incidents (26)

- [Tesla driver charged with manslaughter in Katy crash was Googling 'FSD too timid'](/incidents/fatality-2026-07-03-tesla.md) (2026-07-03): Fatality · severity: catastrophic · NHTSA · inquiry opened
- [Tesla FSD driver charged with manslaughter after fatal crash into Texas home kills 76-year-old resident](/incidents/fatality-2026-07-02-tesla.md) (2026-07-02): Fatality · severity: catastrophic · NHTSA · investigation
- [Tesla Semi involved in first fatal crash, killing 2 in Nevada](/incidents/fatality-2026-06-30-tesla.md) (2026-06-30): Fatality · severity: catastrophic · NHTSA · inquiry opened
- [Texas tightens robotaxi rules after emergency response incidents](/incidents/regulatory-action-2026-06-28-tesla.md) (2026-06-28): Regulatory action · severity: serious · other · other
- [First recorded Tesla Semi fatal crash kills two people in Nevada](/incidents/fatality-2026-06-28-tesla.md) (2026-06-28): Fatality · severity: critical · NHTSA · investigation
- [Tesla driver charged with manslaughter after FSD crash into Texas home kills woman](/incidents/fatality-2026-06-19-tesla.md) (2026-06-19): Fatality · severity: catastrophic · NHTSA · inquiry opened
- [Tesla reveals two Robotaxi crashes involving teleoperators in newly unredacted NHTSA reports](/incidents/collision-2026-05-15-tesla.md) (2026-05-15): Collision · severity: minor · NHTSA · inquiry opened
- [NHTSA escalates Tesla FSD investigation to Engineering Analysis covering 3.2M vehicles](/incidents/regulatory-action-2026-03-19-tesla.md) (2026-03-19): Regulatory action · severity: serious · NHTSA · investigation
- [NHTSA escalates Tesla FSD investigation to Engineering Analysis EA26002 covering 3.2M vehicles](/incidents/regulatory-action-2026-03-18-tesla.md) (2026-03-18): Regulatory action · severity: serious · NHTSA · investigation
- [Tesla robotaxis logged 17 NHTSA-reported incidents in Austin, including two teleoperator-caused crashes](/incidents/tesla-robotaxi-austin-nhtsa-crash-record-2025-2026.md) (2026-03-01): Collision · severity: serious · NHTSA · investigation
- [Tesla robotaxi crash count rises to 14 in Austin, roughly 4x human driver rate](/incidents/collision-2026-02-17-tesla.md) (2026-02-17): Collision · severity: moderate · NHTSA · inquiry opened
- [NHTSA opens probe into ~2.9M Teslas over FSD traffic-law violations](/incidents/tesla-fsd-traffic-violation-investigation-2025.md) (2025-10-09): Regulatory action · severity: moderate · NHTSA ODI · investigation
- [Tesla robotics technician sues for 1M after FANUC robot accident at Fremont factory](/incidents/injury-2025-09-30-tesla.md) (2025-09-30): Injury · severity: serious · OSHA
- [NHTSA investigates Tesla FSD over crashes in reduced visibility, including a fatality](/incidents/tesla-fsd-reduced-visibility-investigation-2024.md) (2024-10-18): Regulatory action · severity: critical · NHTSA ODI · investigation
- [NHTSA opens Recall Query RQ24-009 questioning whether Tesla's Autopilot recall remedy was sufficient](/incidents/tesla-autopilot-rq24009-recall-query-2024.md) (2024-04-25): Regulatory action · severity: serious · NHTSA ODI · investigation
- [Rearview Image May Not Display](/incidents/nhtsa-tesla-recall-24v035000.md) (2024-01-22): Recall · NHTSA
- [Tesla recalls 2.03M vehicles over insufficient Autosteer driver-engagement controls](/incidents/tesla-autopilot-autosteer-recall-2023.md) (2023-12-12): Recall · severity: serious · NHTSA · recall ordered
- [Autopilot Controls Insufficient to Prevent Misuse](/incidents/nhtsa-tesla-recall-23v838000.md) (2023-12-12): Recall · NHTSA
- [Tesla Model Y on FSD struck and killed pedestrian Johna Story on Arizona highway, first known FSD pedestrian fatality](/incidents/fatality-2023-11-28-tesla.md) (2023-11-28): Fatality · severity: critical · NHTSA · investigation
- [Tesla and FANUC sued for $51M after a factory robot arm struck a technician unconscious at Fremont (2023)](/incidents/tesla-fanuc-robot-arm-injury-fremont-2023.md) (2023-07-22): Injury · severity: serious
- [Rearview Image May Not Display/FMVSS 111](/incidents/nhtsa-tesla-recall-23v244000.md) (2023-04-05): Recall · NHTSA
- [Tesla recalls 362,758 FSD Beta vehicles over unsafe intersection/speed behavior](/incidents/tesla-fsd-beta-recall-2023.md) (2023-02-16): Recall · severity: serious · NHTSA · recall ordered
- [Full Self-Driving Software May Cause Crash](/incidents/nhtsa-tesla-recall-23v085000.md) (2023-02-15): Recall · NHTSA
- [NHTSA opens Engineering Analysis EA22-002 into Tesla Autopilot driver engagement and foreseeable misuse](/incidents/tesla-autopilot-ea22002-engineering-analysis-2022.md) (2022-06-08): Regulatory action · severity: critical · NHTSA ODI · investigation
- [Initial Delay In Rearview Image Display/FMVSS 111](/incidents/nhtsa-tesla-recall-22v169000.md) (2022-03-18): Recall · NHTSA
- [Vehicle May Fail to Stop at Stop Sign](/incidents/nhtsa-tesla-recall-22v037000.md) (2022-01-27): Recall · NHTSA

## Exposure

DEPLOY does not have exposure data (deployment-hours, miles driven, or rides given) on file for Tesla's 10 recorded deployment(s). No incident count above can be turned into a defensible rate without it. NHTSA's SGO dataset itself does not publish exposure denominators; there is no standardized, regulator-verified nationwide source for AV fleet mileage or ride counts today.

## A note on NHTSA's crash-reporting data

Many of the incidents below are drawn from NHTSA's Standing General Order (SGO) 2021-01 crash-reporting program, which requires manufacturers and operators of automated driving systems (ADS) and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) to report qualifying crashes. It is the only nationwide, cross-operator crash dataset that exists for this industry, and it is also, by NHTSA's own design and Consumer Reports' public assessment, an imperfect one.

Reporting companies may redact narrative fields as confidential business information (CBI). In practice this means narrative completeness is uneven across manufacturers in the underlying dataset: some incident reports read as full prose descriptions of what happened, others are replaced with boilerplate redacted text. This is a property of the source data, not of DEPLOY's editorial process; DEPLOY publishes what the filing discloses and states plainly when a fuller account is not publicly available.

The SGO dataset also does not publish exposure denominators (miles driven, hours operated, rides given) alongside crash counts, so a raw incident count cannot be turned into a rate without an independently sourced denominator. See "Exposure" below for what DEPLOY does and does not have on file for this company.

- [NHTSA: Standing General Order on Crash Reporting](https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-order-crash-reporting)
- [Consumer Reports: comments to NHTSA on incident reporting for ADS and Level 2 ADAS](https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/research/consumer-reports-comments-to-nhtsa-on-incident-reporting-for-automated-driving-systems-and-level-2-adas/)
- [Consumer Reports: statement on crash-reporting underreporting](https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_release/transportation-department-keeps-in-place-vital-car-crash-reporting-program-but-misses-chance-to-address-underreporting-consumer-reports-statement/)

## Common questions

**What is Tesla's safety record?**

DEPLOY has 26 incidents on file for Tesla, drawn from NHTSA's Standing General Order crash-reporting program and press coverage. Each incident below is individually sourced and dated; see the incident list for details.

**Is Tesla safer than a human driver?**

DEPLOY does not have exposure data (miles driven or hours operated) on file for Tesla, so no per-mile or per-hour safety rate can be computed from this registry today. This is a documented industry-wide data gap, not unique to DEPLOY: NHTSA's own SGO dataset does not publish exposure denominators alongside crash counts. Any rate comparison you see elsewhere may rely on a company's self-published mileage figures, which are not independently audited.

**Does DEPLOY redact or omit crash details for Tesla?**

No. DEPLOY does not redact incident narratives. Where a source narrative is itself incomplete (for example, a NHTSA SGO filing redacted as confidential business information), DEPLOY states that plainly rather than filling the gap. See "A note on NHTSA's crash-reporting data" below.


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