Tesla’s Robotaxis have had 14 crashes in only eight months – and that doesn’t bode well for the Cybercab

Maybe much more regarding is the truth that a report submitted to the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration (NHTSA), which is holding a detailed eye on all autonomous car initiatives, present that a July 2025 crash was upgraded from “property injury only” to “Minor W/ Hospitalization”.

Different filed incidents from Tesla embody a collision with a set object at 17mph whereas the car was driving straight, a crash with a bus whereas the Tesla was stationary, a collision with a heavy truck at 4mph, plus two separate incidents the place the Tesla backed into objects (one right into a pole or tree at 1mph and one other into a set object at 2mph), in accordance with Electrek.

These all reportedly occurred throughout daylight and in good climate circumstances, which hangs much more query marks over Tesla’s choice to sort out superior ranges of autonomous driving with out LiDAR and different sensors, as an alternative counting on cameras.

Operating earlier than strolling

Though these incidents all (fortunately) sound like comparatively minor collisions, the crash information submitted to the NHTSA is regarding. It’s predicted that Tesla only has round 42 Robotaxis in comparatively sporadic operation round Austin, however they’re colliding at a fee that is worse than human drivers.

What’s extra, Tesla is certainly one of the only autonomous taxi providers that redacts all of its crash data below the pretense of “confidential enterprise data”. This implies it’s not possible to see who or what was at fault throughout the incident – whether or not it was Tesla’s autonomous driving programs or the security driver’s failure to react in time.

By comparability, Waymo has submitted 51 incidents in Austin alone over an analogous timeframe. However as of the final rely, the firm had coated 6.337 million absolutely autonomous miles in Austin, Texas, since launching the service in March, in accordance with the Austin American Statesman.