According to NHTSA’s Standing General Order crash reports, Tesla has reported 9 crashes involving its robotaxi fleet in Austin, Texas between July and November 2025:
- November 2025: Right turn collision
- October 2025: Incident at 18 mph
- September 2025: Hit an animal at 27 mph
- September 2025: Collision with cyclist
- September 2025: Rear collision while backing (6 mph)
- September 2025: Hit a fixed object in parking lot
- July 2025: Collision with SUV in construction zone
- July 2025: Hit fixed object, causing minor injury (8 mph)
- July 2025: Right turn collision with SUV
According to a chart in Tesla’s Q4 2025 earnings report showing cumulative robotaxi miles, the fleet has traveled approximately 500,000 miles as of November 2025. That works out to roughly one crash every 55,000 miles.
Tesla had lidar before, they decided to switch to vision-only control, presumably for hardware cost saving, but I read that this was musks decision ultimately, despite the pushback. The model s’s that had the hw on board simply stopped using it after an update.
Oooooof… How can someone be so dense? That’s just preposterous.