Tesla Robotaxi Crash Rate Nine Times Higher Than Human Drivers, Raising Safety and Transparency Concerns

Since the large-scale deployment of Tesla's Robotaxi service in July 2025, it has been plagued by frequent accidents. According to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Tesla’s fleet was involved in nine low-speed collisions over approximately 500,000 miles of driving through November—an average of one crash every 55,000 miles. This rate is nine times higher than that of human drivers, who average one crash per 500,000 miles. Even with a safety operator present in each vehicle ready to intervene at any moment, Tesla’s accident rate remains significantly higher than that of human drivers. In contrast, Waymo’s fully driverless fleet—operating without safety drivers—has already logged more than 25 million miles with a substantially lower accident rate. Moreover, Tesla has shown a lack of transparency in disclosing accident details. In NHTSA’s database, all specifics of Tesla’s crashes have been redacted, labeled as containing “confidential business information.” Meanwhile, companies like Waymo publicly release complete descriptions of their incidents, raising external concerns about Tesla’s safety practices and the credibility of its data.