How many people have been killed by robotaxis?
The NHTSA Standing General Order file holds 3 reports by operators of driverless systems (ADS) alleging a fatality. The file does not count the dead: a Fatality report means at least one person died in a crash the vehicle was party to, and it does not establish fault or that the automated vehicle struck anyone. The register itself lists 6 verified fatal cases in its autonomous vehicle category, each with a timeline and sources. A further 79 fatal reports in the same file are Level 2 driver-assistance crashes (Tesla Autopilot and Full Self-Driving among them) with a person responsible at the wheel: reports, not robotaxi cases, and not counted above. File refreshed from NHTSA on 2026-11-07.
Fatal ADS reports by operator
- Waymo LLC3 reports
Fatal ADS reports: crash with
- Motorcycle1 report
- Non-Motorist: Pedestrian1 report
- Passenger Car1 report
How this was counted
Fatal filings are taken from the ADS files of NHTSA's Standing General Order at the latest version of each report; a crash filed by several entities counts once through NHTSA's same_incident_id.
The register's fatal cases are incidents verified from at least two independent sources or a regulator record. A case can exist without a filing (an incident outside the United States, or before June 2021) and a filing without a case (one the press never covered), so the two counts are shown side by side rather than added.
Level 2 fatalities are listed for completeness because the same public file holds them and search engines merge the two. The register does not count them: a vehicle is a robot here only when nobody inside is responsible for driving.
A report is the operator's own filing under NHTSA Standing General Order 2021-01. It records that a crash happened and who was involved; it does not establish fault, and most filings describe low-speed contact with nobody hurt.
Data as of 2026-11-07. Numbers on this page are computed from the register's database on each visit and are CC BY 4.0; cite this page. Rules on the methodology page, exports on the data page.
The 6 fatal autonomous vehicle cases in the register
Newest first. Each one links to its timeline and to the sources it rests on.
- 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
- 2025-09-14A Waymo robotaxi slowing to turn into a parking lot on Rural Road near Arizona State University was rear-ended by a motorcyclist, who was then struck by a hit-and-run human driver and later died at the hospital.Report
- 2025-09-01A Waymo autonomous vehicle (Jaguar I-Pace) was involved in a crash with motorcycle in Tempe, AZ, reported to NHTSA as a fatalityReport
- 2025-01-19An unoccupied Waymo robotaxi stopped at a traffic light was rear-ended in a multi-vehicle collision at Sixth and Harrison Streets in San Francisco, killing one person and injuring seven others.Report
- 2023-08-14Two Cruise autonomous vehicles stopped in traffic lanes on August 14, 2023 in San Francisco, allegedly delaying an ambulance transporting a pedestrian with life-threatening injuries who later died at the hospital, though Cruise disputes that its vehicles impeded the ambulance.Report
- 2019-04-25Tesla Model S Autopilot crash in Key Largo on April 25, 2019 killed one person and seriously injured another, resulting in a $243 million jury verdict against Tesla now under appeal in the 11th Circuit.Lawsuit
Where the numbers come from
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What people ask about this number
- How many people have been killed by robotaxis?
- The NHTSA Standing General Order file holds 3 reports by operators of driverless systems (ADS) alleging a fatality. The file does not count the dead: a Fatality report means at least one person died in a crash the vehicle was party to, and it does not establish fault or that the automated vehicle struck anyone. The register itself lists 6 verified fatal cases in its autonomous vehicle category, each with a timeline and sources. A further 79 fatal reports in the same file are Level 2 driver-assistance crashes (Tesla Autopilot and Full Self-Driving among them) with a person responsible at the wheel: reports, not robotaxi cases, and not counted above. File refreshed from NHTSA on 2026-11-07.
- Does a fatal report mean the robotaxi killed someone?
- No. It means a person died in a crash the vehicle was involved in. The operator's narrative, where not redacted, states the circumstances; in the one-row-per-incident view of the SGO table each fatal filing can be read in full.
- Why are Tesla Autopilot deaths not in the robotaxi count?
- Because with Autopilot or Full Self-Driving engaged a human driver remains responsible, and NHTSA files those crashes under Level 2 driver assistance, separately from driverless (ADS) systems. The register follows the same line.
- Can I reuse these numbers?
- Yes. The counts are CC BY 4.0: cite The Machine Record with a link to this page. The underlying rows can be downloaded as CSV from the SGO table and the register from the data page.
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