Robotaxis incidents

30 verified incidents involving robotaxis robots. Source-attributed, append-only, corrections recorded on the record.

• NHTSA demands AV developers stop driverless vehicles from interfering with first responders2026-07-08 · regulatory_action
• Waymo recalls 3,871 5th-gen ADS vehicles over freeway construction zone detection failure2026-06-17 · recall
• Waymo temporarily suspended freeway robotaxi service in four cities to improve construction-zone performance (May 2026)2026-05-21 · other
• Waymo suspended Atlanta robotaxi service after a robotaxi was stuck amid flooding (May 2026)2026-05-21 · malfunction
• Waymo issued a software recall and halted San Antonio service over robotaxis driving into floods (May 2026)2026-05-14 · recall
• Waymo recalls 3,791 5th/6th-gen ADS vehicles over flooded roadway detection failure2026-05-06 · recall
• NHTSA opened an investigation into Avride after 16 robotaxi crashes in Dallas and Austin2026-05-06 · regulatory_action
• China suspended new robotaxi/AV permits nationwide after the Apollo Go Wuhan outage2026-04-29 · regulatory_action
• Apollo Go robotaxis in Wuhan stranded passengers in service-wide malfunction2026-03-31 · malfunction
• Tesla robotaxis logged 17 NHTSA-reported incidents in Austin, including two teleoperator-caused crashes2026-03-01 · collision
• Zoox robotaxi struck an opening car door in San Francisco, injuring a street ambassador2026-01-17 · injury
• Zoox recalled 332 robotaxis over unnecessary lane-crossings near intersections2025-12-23 · recall
• Robotaxi (Baidu Apollo RT6, Hellobike-operated) struck two pedestrians in Zhuzhou; service suspended2025-12-06 · injury
• NHTSA opens probe into ~2.9M Teslas over FSD traffic-law violations2025-10-09 · regulatory_action
• Waymo recalls 1,212 robotaxis over low-speed collisions with gates, chains and barriers2025-05-13 · recall
• Zoox recalled ~270 robotaxis after a Las Vegas collision with a passenger car2025-04-08 · recall
• Waymo robotaxi and Serve Robotics delivery robot collided in West Hollywood (Dec 2024)2024-12-27 · collision
• Cruise admits a false report to a federal investigation; $500K DOJ deferred-prosecution agreement2024-11-14 · regulatory_action
• NHTSA investigates Tesla FSD over crashes in reduced visibility, including a fatality2024-10-18 · regulatory_action
• NHTSA fines Cruise $1.5M for failing to fully report the Oct 2023 pedestrian-dragging crash2024-09-30 · regulatory_action
• Cruise recalls its entire 1,194-vehicle fleet over unexpected hard braking2024-08-22 · recall
• Waymo recalls 672 vehicles after a robotaxi struck a utility pole in Phoenix2024-06-12 · recall
• NHTSA opens a probe into Waymo's 5th-gen ADS after reports of unexpected driving behavior2024-05-13 · regulatory_action
• Waymo robotaxi collides with pickup truck in San Francisco (Feb 2024)2024-02-11 · collision
• Tesla recalls 2.03M vehicles over insufficient Autosteer driver-engagement controls2023-12-12 · recall
• Cruise driverless robotaxi dragged a pedestrian ~20 feet in San Francisco2023-10-02 · injury
• Cruise robotaxi collided with an SF fire truck responding to an emergency; one passenger injured2023-08-17 · collision
• Tesla recalls 362,758 FSD Beta vehicles over unsafe intersection/speed behavior2023-02-16 · recall
• NHTSA reviews Nuro R2 AV exemption compliance after safety petition (2021)2021-04-01 · regulatory_action
• NHTSA suspends EasyMile passenger trials nationwide after emergency braking incident in Columbus, Ohio2020-02-25 · collision