Every incident
Every consequence
We keep a case per event, not a record per article. A collision, the investigation that follows, the recall, the lawsuit and the settlement stay in one file. A copy of each source is kept, and linked beside it with the date it was taken, because half of these links will not open in two years.
- Cases
- 257
- Sources
- 662
- Escalated
- 44
- Updated
- 2026-11-01
The curve bends up
Not who is dangerous, but whose incidents reach consequences
Fleet sizes are not public, so we cannot report incidents per thousand machines and will not pretend otherwise. What we can measure is internally normalised: the share of a company's recorded incidents that reached a regulator, a recall or a court.
| Company | Cases | Escalated | Share | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cruise | 8 | 5 | 63% | 2022 |
| Zoox | 9 | 4 | 44% | 2024 |
| Tesla | 15 | 3 | 20% | 2019 |
| Starship Technologies | 8 | 1 | 13% | 2019 |
| Waymo | 73 | 7 | 10% | 2023 |
| Unitree Robotics | 9 | 0 | 0% | 2025 |
Companies with fewer than 8 cases are left out of the index: at that sample size a single case moves the share by double digits. Currently outside it: Intuitive Surgical 7, Boston Dynamics 4, Avride 4, Baidu 4, Ecovacs 3, Coco Robotics 3, iRobot 3, Globus Medical 2, and 34 more.
Latest cases
The open web yields a handful of genuinely new events per week. Most additions are developments on cases already on file, or older events entering the register for the first time.
- 2026-10-22Baidu and Freenow unveiled the RT6 robotaxi in London on 22 October 2026 and announced a target for commercial driverless rides in 2027.Investigation
- 2026-10-10Cologne police seized a Unitree humanoid robot and investigated two suspects after the robot allegedly groped a 16-year-old girl during a livestreamed incident on October 10, 2026, according to Cologne Police.Investigation
- 2026-09-25An iamo autonomous taxi struck a ground plate during a test drive in Dänikon, damaging the plate and two tires.Report
- 2026-09-25A Zoox robotaxi collided with a silver Nissan Murano on Las Vegas Boulevard near Four Seasons Drive on September 25, 2026, sending the Murano driver to a hospital with minor upper-body injuries.Report
- 2026-09-06Autonomous community bus 'Kurulin' in Fukaya, Saitama collided with a roadside fence and bus stop sign on 6 September 2026, causing property damage but no injuries.Report
- 2026-09-01A Waymo autonomous vehicle (Jaguar I-Pace) was involved in a crash with other fixed object in Houston, TX, reported to NHTSA as minor w/ hospitalizationReport
- 2026-08-02A patrolling robot was damaged after falling down a staircase at Hong Kong airport.Report
- 2026-08-01A Waymo autonomous vehicle (Jaguar I-Pace) was involved in a crash with passenger car in Atlanta, GA, reported to NHTSA as minor w/ hospitalizationReport
- 2026-08-01A Waymo autonomous vehicle (Jaguar I-Pace) was involved in a crash with suv in Dallas, TX, reported to NHTSA as minor w/ hospitalizationReport
- 2026-08-01A Waymo autonomous vehicle (Jaguar I-Pace) was involved in a crash with non-motorist: pedestrian in Dallas, TX, reported to NHTSA as a fatalityReport
New cases, every Monday
One plain-text email a week with what entered the register, each case linked to its timeline and sources. Free, no account.
What the operators report about themselves
Every company running driving automation on American roads must file a report with NHTSA for each crash. Those filings are public, and they are a spreadsheet of 116 columns, which is why almost nobody reads them. The register holds all of them.
- Reports on file
- 1551
- Hospitalisation or worse
- 54
- Operators
- 19
- Cities
- 77
- Search the narrativesEach report carries an account the operator wrote. Ask it about an ambulance, a crosswalk, a school bus.
- The whole SGO file, Level 2 includedDriverless and driver-assistance filings since 2021 in one searchable table, one row per report, CSV of any cut.
- Pedestrians and cyclistsThe filings where the other party had no metal around them, and the same impact means something else.
- What changedA crash first filed as nobody hurt can become a hospitalisation two months later. That correction is the story.
By place: San Francisco 396, Los Angeles 260, Austin 199, Phoenix 113, Atlanta 79, Dallas 75
Everything above is free and always will be
Every case, every timeline and every source link stays open and indexable. Paid products cover convenience: company dossiers as a finished PDF, alerts on the companies you track, and export with an API.