What do Tesla robotaxi crash reports actually show?

A crash report is not a fault finding

NHTSA's Standing General Order (SGO) 2021-01 requires companies to report certain crashes involving automated driving systems. Filing a report does not mean NHTSA found a defect. It does not mean the automated system caused the crash. Many reports involve only minor property damage.

Tesla's safety page, read Nov 2, 2026 through a page reader, says the SGO covers crashes on public roads when the automated system was engaged at any time in the 30 seconds before the crash. Tesla also says NHTSA publishes each report about a month or more after it is filed, so the public file runs behind. A direct request to tesla.com that day returned 403.

What NHTSA's public file shows

We downloaded NHTSA's SGO file for automated driving systems on Nov 2, 2026, from the static CSV linked below. The file's Last-Modified header was Oct 15, 2026. It has 1,595 data rows. Dates in the file are month labels, such as AUG-2026, not full calendar dates. The latest submission month in the file is September 2026. For rows where the reporting entity or the make contains Tesla (all 57 are Tesla, Inc. and make TESLA):

• 57 rows, 36 unique report IDs. A report can have more than one row when a company files a later version. We counted the latest version as the highest report version.
• Cities, all 57 rows: Austin 47, Dallas 7, Houston 2, Tampa 1. States: Texas 56, Florida 1.
• August 2026 incident month: 9 rows (Dallas 5, Austin 3, Tampa 1). All nine are labeled "Property Damage. No Injured Reported." All nine have a submission month of September 2026.
• Injury field on the latest version of each of the 36 reports: 32 "Property Damage. No Injured Reported," 2 "No Injured Reported," 1 "Minor W/O Hospitalization," and 1 "Minor W/ Hospitalization." The column is "Highest Injury Severity Alleged." These are allegations in the report, not confirmed injuries.

The one Cybercab row

Report 13781-16672 is the only Cybercab row in the file. Model is Cybercab. City is Austin. Incident month is August 2026. Submission month is September 2026. Pre-crash speed is 5 mph. The driver/operator field is "In-Vehicle (Commercial / Test)." The injury field is "Property Damage. No Injured Reported." NHTSA's narrative says: "The ADS was proceeding straight in a parking lot going as fast as 5MPH and drove into a large pothole filled with water. The ADS had a safety monitor present in the vehicle with no passengers."

What Tesla's safety page claims

Tesla published a Robotaxi safety report. We read tesla.com/robotaxi/safety on Nov 2, 2026 through a page reader after a direct request returned 403. These are Tesla's numbers and Tesla's definitions. They are not an NHTSA fault finding.

Closed window: Jan 22 to Oct 18, 2026. The page shows "3.1 M" miles driven autonomously as of October 18, 2026. It also lists city miles: Austin 2,118,015; Dallas 608,130; Houston 225,964; Orlando 61,053; Tampa 53,117; Miami 46,262. Those six figures add to 3,112,541. TeslAnt reports the same 3,112,541 total for that window. One page-reader view of tesla.com/robotaxi the same day also showed 3,112,541 under "Miles Driven Autonomously."

• People injured: Tesla's page shows 0. Tesla says this counts people injured in a collision in which the Robotaxi made first contact.
• Robotaxi airbag deployments: Tesla's page shows 0.
• Pedestrians or cyclists hit: Tesla's page shows 0, under the same first-contact rule.

Tesla says the report includes every crash it reports to NHTSA while Robotaxi is driving with no safety monitor in the car, including when a remote operator is assisting or has taken control. Tesla says it leaves out crashes and miles with a safety monitor aboard.

Tesla's page describes two events it did not count as injuries. In one, another vehicle hit an SUV and pushed it into a Robotaxi waiting at a stop sign; an occupant of the other vehicle went to the hospital. In the other, a rider claimed an injury after a Robotaxi drove over a pothole, and Tesla says its investigation found no injury.

Live counter. Tesla says the page has a live mileage counter that estimates miles at the fleet's current pace, separate from the closed Oct 18 window. Page-reader fetches on Nov 2, 2026 did not agree on one live figure. One safety-page read showed 4,276,590. One robotaxi-page read showed 3,112,541 in a similar headline, and a later robotaxi-page read showed a different figure near 4.28 million. Because those reads do not agree, this page does not treat any live total as a fact. The closed window remains the Oct 18 figure above.

Tesla's downloadable crash list

Tesla's safety page links a spreadsheet, Robotaxi-SGO-Report_10_18_2026.xlsx. We downloaded that file on Nov 2, 2026. It has 32 data rows. The incident dates run from May 23, 2026 through Oct 18, 2026. Counted from that file:

• 30 rows are labeled "Property Damage. No Injured Reported." The other two are "Unknown" and "Minor W/ Hospitalization."
• 13 rows list a pre-crash speed of 0 mph.
• 15 rows list the other party as "Other Fixed Object" (14) or "Pole / Tree" (1).
• 3 narratives say a remote operator was controlling or recovering the car.

TeslAnt reported those same 32 / 30 / 13 / 15 / 3 totals from Tesla's list. None of these rows is a fault finding. Tesla's list is not the same set as the 36 report IDs in the NHTSA file we downloaded. Tesla's page says its list leaves out crashes with a safety monitor aboard. The Cybercab row above is in the NHTSA file and is not in this 32-row spreadsheet.

What this page is not about

• Not NHTSA's school-zone petition (DP26010). See the school-zone page.
• Not the Cybercab safety-standard certification review. See NHTSA, the Cybercab, and Utah operators.
• Not a Utah crash. As of Nov 2, 2026, there is no robotaxi service in Utah. See robotaxi status in Salt Lake City / Utah.

Related reading

• Tesla vs Waymo miles
• DP26010 school-zone petition
• NHTSA Cybercab FMVSS notes
• Robotaxi status in Salt Lake City / Utah
• About D.R. Autonomy

Sources

1. NHTSA, SGO 2021-01 incident reports, automated driving systems (CSV), downloaded Nov 2, 2026. 1,595 data rows. Last-Modified header Oct 15, 2026.
   SGO-2021-01_Incident_Reports_ADS.csv
2. Tesla, Robotaxi safety page, read Nov 2, 2026 through a page reader. A direct request returned 403. Closed window shown as 3.1 million miles as of Oct 18, 2026, with the city miles listed above.
   tesla.com/robotaxi/safety
3. Tesla spreadsheet linked from that page, Robotaxi-SGO-Report_10_18_2026.xlsx, downloaded Nov 2, 2026. 32 data rows, May 23 through Oct 18, 2026.
   Robotaxi-SGO-Report_10_18_2026.xlsx
4. TeslAnt, fetched Nov 2, 2026, reporting the 3,112,541 total and the same 32 / 30 / 13 / 15 / 3 counts.
   teslant.com

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