Does a report mean the vehicle was at fault?

No. Operators must file for any crash their vehicle was involved in, including being struck from behind while stopped. The count is of filings, not of blame; the narrative of each report, where NHTSA has not redacted it, says what happened.

Why are these not cases in the register?

The register records incidents of commercial robots, machines with nobody responsible for operating them in the moment. Level 2 systems require a driver, so their crashes are driver-assistance events and sit outside the register, as NHTSA's own ADS and Level 2 files are separate.

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.

NHTSA file, Level 2 driver assistance

How many Tesla Autopilot and FSD crashes have been reported to NHTSA?

Tesla filed 4,418 Level 2 crash reports with NHTSA under Standing General Order 2021-01 for crashes with Autopilot or Full Self-Driving engaged, which the order files as Level 2 driver assistance, covering 4,412 distinct incidents once filings about the same crash are merged, counted at the latest version of each report. Of these, 156 allege an injury and 66 a fatality. The file as held here was refreshed from NHTSA on 2026-11-07; its latest incident is dated September 2026, and operators have up to a month to file, so the most recent months are still filling.

These are reports in the NHTSA file, not cases in the register. The register counts a vehicle as a robot only when nobody inside is responsible for driving; with Autopilot or Full Self-Driving engaged a person at the wheel remains responsible, so these crashes, including the fatal ones, are outside its definition and are shown here because the public file contains them.

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.

By year of incident

20192 reports
202011 reports
2021157 reports
2022454 reports
2023554 reports
2024715 reports
20251,042 reports
20261,481 reports

By highest injury severity alleged

No Injuries Reported89 reports
Serious33 reports
Minor14 reports
Fatality66 reports
Serious W/ Hospitalization12 reports
Minor W/ Hospitalization15 reports
Minor W/O Hospitalization7 reports
Property Damage. No Injured Reported10 reports
No Injured Reported16 reports
Unknown4,147 reports

By state

CA1,448 reports
TX505 reports
FL368 reports
NJ148 reports
GA141 reports
NY136 reports
WA120 reports
VA118 reports
NC117 reports
IL106 reports

How this was counted

Counted from NHTSA's Standing General Order files (the current files and the 2021-2025 archive) as loaded into the register, one row per report at its latest version. A report an operator later amended counts once, at its amended severity.

"Injury" means any severity the operator ticked other than unknown, no injury or property damage only; "fatality" is the operator's own Fatality box. Incidents are reports grouped by NHTSA's same_incident_id, so a crash filed by two entities counts once.

The incident date in the current files is given to the month, so counts by month and year follow the month NHTSA published, and a crash on the last day of a month can sit in the next one.

NHTSA's 2021-2025 archive used shorter severity labels (Minor, Moderate, Serious, No Injuries Reported) than the current files; both sets appear in the breakdown as NHTSA wrote them.

NHTSA redacts most Level 2 narratives as confidential business information; the structured columns (date, state, severity, crash partner) are not redacted and are what these counts rest on.

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.

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How many Tesla Autopilot and FSD crashes have been reported to NHTSA?: Tesla filed 4,418 Level 2 crash reports with NHTSA under Standing General Order 2021-01 for crashes with Autopilot or Full Self-Driving engaged, which the order files as Level 2 driver assistance, covering 4,412 distinct incidents once filings about the same crash are merged, counted at the latest version of each report. Of these, 156 allege an injury and 66 a fatality. The file as held here was refreshed from NHTSA on 2026-11-07; its latest incident is dated September 2026, and operators have up to a month to file, so the most recent months are still filling.
Does a report mean the vehicle was at fault?: No. Operators must file for any crash their vehicle was involved in, including being struck from behind while stopped. The count is of filings, not of blame; the narrative of each report, where NHTSA has not redacted it, says what happened.
Why are these not cases in the register?: The register records incidents of commercial robots, machines with nobody responsible for operating them in the moment. Level 2 systems require a driver, so their crashes are driver-assistance events and sit outside the register, as NHTSA's own ADS and Level 2 files are separate.
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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