Comment 1 crash out of 14 crashes (Score 2) 124
The 14 robotaxi "crashes" have been reported:
1 incident was an actual dynamic driving crash: The vehicle was traveling straight at 17 mph and struck a fixed object.Only property damage.
2 incidents were cases where the Tesla was completely stopped, parked, and stationary, one where a city bus scraped the side of it.
2 incidents were parking mishaps where the car backed into a pole or tree at 1 mph and 2 mph.
2 incidents were ultra-low-speed intersection or turn scrapes (one at 2 mph and one with a truck at 4 mph).
5 incidents were minor parking lot or low-speed bumps with no notable damage.
1 incident was a remote-driver fence collision (Minor Injury, No Hospitalization)
The robotaxi was stopped on the right side of an Austin street. The autonomous system encountered a situation it could not resolve and stopped proceeding forward.Following protocol, the safety monitor requested assistance from Tesla's remote support team. A remote human "teleoperator" took over control of the vehicle to steer it away. The remote operator drove the car to the left, but misjudged the space, driving the vehicle up over a curb and into a metal fence at roughly 8 mph.The human safety monitor inside the vehicle suffered a minor, non-life-threatening injury from the abrupt stop on the curb. They did not require a hospital visit.
1 incident was a yield-sign rear-ending (Minor Injury, With Hospitalization)
The robotaxi was navigating a right-turn slip lane that had a yield sign. The vehicle appropriately stopped to wait for an opening in cross traffic. As the car looked for a gap, the autonomous system began creeping forward slowly at just 2 mph while continuing to yield. An inattentive driver in an SUV behind the Tesla assumed the robotaxi was accelerating into traffic and failed to stop, rear-ending the Tesla at low speed.Even though the physical impact was a minor 2 mph bumper tap, the safety monitor inside the Tesla complained of neck or back pain following the jolt. They sought a precautionary medical evaluation at a local hospital, which legally categorized the event as a "minor injury with hospitalization" in federal tracking databases.