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NHTSA Standing General Order 2021-01

What the operators report themselves

Every company running driving automation on public roads has to file a report with the federal regulator for each crash. The filings are public and they are a spreadsheet of 116 columns, which is why almost nobody reads them. This is that file, in a form you can ask questions of.

Reports
1551
Hospitalisation or worse
54
Operators
19
Covering
2025-04 to 2026-09
Inside the narratives

What the operators actually wrote

The file has one structured column for what was hit. Everything else worth knowing sits in prose the operator composed. These counts come from reading all 1551 narratives; each opens the exact reports it counted, so the number can be checked rather than taken on trust.

By place

Where the reports come from

Automation is deployed city by city, and so is its record. These are the places with the most filings on file.

The federal file covers the United States only. The register's own cases, from the press in ten languages and from regulators on both sides of the Atlantic, come from 22 countries; 33 cases name no country in their location.

What this is not

A report is not a verdict

A filing records that a crash happened and who was involved. It does not establish fault, and most of these are low-speed contact with no one hurt. Only the ones reaching hospitalisation enter the register as cases.

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New cases, once a week, by email

Every case added to the register in the last seven days, with its sources. Free, no account, and the register is the only sender.

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