Tesla safety report claims zero injuries across 3.1 million Robotaxi miles

Tesla has launched a Robotaxi Vehicle Safety Report that says its fleet drove about 3.1 million autonomous miles from Jan. 22 through Oct. 18 without injuring anyone, deploying an airbag or hitting a pedestrian or cyclist.

The results cover 3,112,541 miles across Austin, Dallas, Houston, Orlando, Tampa and Miami. Austin accounted for about 2.12 million miles, followed by Dallas with 608,000 and Houston with 226,000. Orlando, Tampa and Miami recorded about 61,000, 53,000 and 46,000 miles respectively.

The report excludes both mileage and collisions occurring while a safety monitor was in the vehicle, including most monitored driving before Jan. 22. It includes every collision reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration under Standing General Order 2021-01 when a Robotaxi was driving autonomously without a monitor, including instances in which a remote operator assisted or took control.

Tesla defines an injury as one suffered inside or outside the vehicle in a collision where the Robotaxi made first contact. Its airbag figure covers only the Robotaxi's own airbags, while its pedestrian and cyclist measure similarly counts only collisions in which the Robotaxi was first to make contact. The company separately lists an SUV being redirected into a stopped Robotaxi after another vehicle struck it, with no injuries in either vehicle, and says it excluded a rider's claimed injury after a pothole encounter following its investigation.

Texas represented 2.95 million miles, or 95% of the covered total. Tesla estimated that human drivers would have experienced about 9.1 injury collisions, 4.1 collisions involving their own airbag deployment and 0.52 pedestrian or cyclist collisions over those Texas miles. The company said the comparison uses Texas police data and estimates that roughly 32% of injury collisions go unreported, but the human benchmark counts collisions regardless of which vehicle made first contact, unlike Tesla's Robotaxi metric.

The report also logged 862,000 miles after dark, at least 113,000 miles in rain and 575,000 miles during weekday rush hour. Its live mileage counter is a separate estimate based on the fleet's current pace, rather than a fixed-period safety result.

Tesla listed Las Vegas, Jacksonville, Phoenix and San Antonio as its next Robotaxi markets, without setting launch dates. It has already secured approval for a limited Las Vegas fleet after applying for a Nevada permit covering as many as 5,000 vehicles.

The publication came as NHTSA continued a review of allegations involving Tesla robotaxis in active school zones, as we reported earlier this month. Tesla began its Austin service in June 2025 with safety monitors, and later expanded to Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando and Tampa; unsupervised rides began in Dallas and Houston in April and Miami opened in July.