> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.tao.media/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Tesla Publishes Robotaxi Safety Data for 3.3 Million Driverless Miles - URL: https://www.tao.media/tesla-publishes-robotaxi-safety-data-for-3-3-million-driverless-miles/ - Published: 2026-10-22T00:34:51.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-22T00:34:53.000Z - Description: The first public report details injury metrics, a Texas human-driver comparison, and plans to expand into four more cities. - Author: Bart Hillerich - Tags: Tesla, Robotics, News Tesla has published its first [Robotaxi Safety Report](https://www.tesla.com/robotaxi/safety?ref=tao.media), reporting zero people injured by Robotaxi, zero deployments of its vehicles' airbags, and zero pedestrians or cyclists hit across approximately 3.3 million miles driven without an onboard safety monitor. The results cover January 22 through October 18, 2026, across six cities in Texas and Florida. Alongside the safety figures, Tesla has released city-level mileage, driving-condition data, a written methodology, and a downloadable file of reportable crashes. The site also names Las Vegas, Jacksonville, Phoenix, and San Antonio as upcoming service locations. Ashok Elluswamy, who leads Tesla's AI software, [announced the report on X](https://x.com/aelluswamy/status/2112981960880783781?ref=tao.media) and said the company would continue sharing progress through the page. ## What the Safety Figures Count Tesla includes collisions reported under the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's [Standing General Order on crash reporting](https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-order-crash-reporting?ref=tao.media) when no safety monitor was inside the vehicle. The dataset includes incidents in which a remote operator was assisting or had taken control. For automated driving systems, the federal order covers qualifying crashes on publicly accessible roads when the system was engaged at any point in the 30 seconds before the crash sequence. Its reporting requirements extend beyond injury crashes to certain property-damage collisions. Tesla excludes both collisions and mileage from operations with an onboard safety monitor, most of which occurred before January 22\. As [Not a Tesla App noted](https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/4860/tesla-names-next-robotaxi-cities-shares-miles-driven-safety-data?ref=tao.media), the six-city breakdown leaves out the San Francisco Bay Area, where rides require a safety driver behind the wheel. ![Robotaxi Safety Report: zero injuries, airbag deployments and pedestrian or cyclist hits](https://storage.ghost.io/c/78/0b/780ba906-b1a7-4bf0-873c-bdd5c32e5331/content/images/2026/10/HVLWs3va8AEk_aF.jpg) [Robotaxi Safety Report: zero injuries, airbag deployments and pedestrian or cyclist hits | Robotaxi on X](https://x.com/robotaxi/status/2112988112330924269?ref=tao.media) The three headline metrics have separate definitions. "People Injured" includes people inside or outside the vehicle injured in a collision where Robotaxi made first contact. The pedestrian and cyclist measure uses the same first-contact rule. "Airbag Deployments" counts only airbags in the Robotaxi itself. Tesla explains two reported events that it excluded from the injury metric. In one, another vehicle hit an SUV and pushed it into a Robotaxi waiting at a stop sign. An occupant of the vehicle that initiated the crash went to the hospital, but nobody in the SUV or Robotaxi was hurt. An airbag deployed in the other vehicle before it struck the Robotaxi, so that deployment was also outside Tesla's airbag measure. In the second event, a rider alleged an injury after a Robotaxi drove over a pothole. Tesla says its investigation found no injury associated with the incident. The zero figures are not a count of all collisions. Tesla provides a [downloadable spreadsheet of SGO-reportable events](https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/raw/upload/Robotaxi-SGO-Report%5F10%5F18%5F2026.xlsx?ref=tao.media). [Electric-Vehicles.com's analysis](https://eletric-vehicles.com/tesla/teslas-new-robotaxi-website-shows-70-of-driverless-miles-came-since-august/?ref=tao.media) counted 32 crashes in that file, with all but two reported as property damage only. ## How Tesla Built the Human-Driver Comparison Tesla bases its human benchmark on the approximately 2.95 million miles driven in Austin, Dallas, and Houston, representing 95% of the fleet's reported mileage. It uses 2024 police crash records from those cities and passenger-vehicle mileage on their surface streets. Over that distance, Tesla estimates human drivers would have been involved in about 9.1 collisions with injuries, 4.1 collisions with airbag deployments, and 0.52 collisions with pedestrians or cyclists. These are expected collision counts, not counts of individual people injured. The benchmark also applies to the Texas mileage, rather than the live counter's larger total. The injury estimate includes an adjustment for collisions that never reach police records. Tesla cites a NHTSA study estimating that roughly 32% of injury collisions go unreported to police. For the human figures, each passenger vehicle involved in a police-reported collision is counted against passenger-vehicle miles. Those records do not establish which vehicle made first contact, so the human injury and pedestrian or cyclist figures include every qualifying collision, regardless of first contact. Tesla's corresponding Robotaxi metrics include only collisions where its vehicle made first contact. The human benchmark therefore measures involvement in those collisions more broadly than Tesla's first-contact-filtered Robotaxi figures. The airbag comparison concerns deployment in the vehicle being counted. ## Where the Fleet Has Driven Austin accounts for roughly 68% of the reported mileage, with Dallas and Houston contributing most of the remainder. The Florida operations are smaller: | City | Miles Without an Onboard Safety Monitor | | ---------------- | --------------------------------------- | | Austin, Texas | 2,118,015 | | Dallas, Texas | 608,130 | | Houston, Texas | 225,964 | | Orlando, Florida | 61,053 | | Tampa, Florida | 53,117 | | Miami, Florida | 46,262 | Tesla also reports approximately 862,000 miles after dark, 575,000 during weekday rush hours, and at least 113,000 in rain over the same reporting period. The company defines after-dark driving by sunset at each city's center, evaluated hour by hour. Rush hour means weekdays from 7–9 a.m. and 4–7 p.m. local time. Rain mileage counts hours when the local airport weather station recorded rain, making it a minimum rather than a measurement of rainfall at every vehicle's location. ![Robotaxi makes the roads safer for everyone (video still)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/78/0b/780ba906-b1a7-4bf0-873c-bdd5c32e5331/content/images/2026/10/L1XQbgPlIxIVEM6C.jpg) [Robotaxi makes the roads safer for everyone (video still) | Robotaxi on X](https://x.com/robotaxi/status/2112993544243937383?ref=tao.media) Tesla's vehicles use external cameras for a 360-degree view of their surroundings. The company says each vehicle's neural network processes more than one million pixels of anonymized visual data every millisecond to respond to changing road conditions. The [planned additions of Phoenix and Las Vegas](https://teslanorth.com/2026/10/21/tesla-robotaxi-safety-report-four-new-cities/?ref=tao.media) would extend the driverless service into Arizona and Nevada, while Jacksonville and San Antonio would add markets in states where the fleet already operates. The release precedes Tesla's [third-quarter financial results webcast](https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-third-quarter-2026-production-deliveries-and-deployments?ref=tao.media), scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Central Time on October 21, after the company publishes its results following the market close.