DEATHS CAUSED
Fatalities attributed to the robotaxi while driving itself
0
Involved in fatal crashes: 2
Sources & details
No fatal crash has ever been attributed to Waymo's driving
Struck by human drivers in SF (Jan 2025) and Tempe (Sep 2025) — not at fault in either
source: Reyes Law · May 2026 ↗source: NBC Bay Area ↗0
Involved in fatal crashes: 0
Sources & details
No deaths in any Robotaxi-service crash since the June 2025 launch
Consumer Autopilot / FSD cars are a separate program and are not counted here
source: Electrek · NHTSA narratives ↗INJURY CRASHES
Crashes with a reported injury, per NHTSA crash reports
117
All reported crashes: 1,429 (Jul 2021 – Nov 2025 · injuries reported in SGO filings, per law-firm tally)
Sources & details
1,429 SGO reports, Jul 2021 – Nov 17, 2025 (law-firm tally of NHTSA filings; raw data at NHTSA link). NHTSA counts involvement, not fault — most were caused by other drivers — and warns raw totals can include duplicates.
source: NHTSA Standing General Order (raw data) ↗2
All reported crashes: 22 (Jul 2025 – Mar 2026 · 2 minor-injury crashes, 1 requiring hospitalization)
Sources & details
22 unique SGO incident reports from launch (Jun 2025) through Jun 2026 filings. Most were other drivers' fault (rear-endings while stopped); at least 2 were caused by Tesla's remote operators. Mileage undisclosed, so no per-mile rate can be computed.
source: Electrek · NHTSA SGO filings · Jul 20, 2026 ↗CRASHES PER MILLION MILES
NHTSA-reported crashes per million driverless miles — see each card for how the rates are matched
1.28
Sources & details
IIHS matched study: 1.28 police-reportable crashes per million miles vs 4.06 for human drivers in the same areas and years (~50M driverless miles, 2021–2024)
68% fewer police-reportable crashes and 81% fewer injury crashes than matched human drivers (IIHS, Jul 2026). Waymo's own dashboard reports 0.71 injury crashes per million rider-only miles vs a 3.91 matched human benchmark (220.6M miles, through Mar 2026). Our former “6.5” figure divided a Nov 2025 crash count by Mar 2026 mileage — mismatched cutoffs — and has been retired. Raw SGO totals count every contact, including not-at-fault, and can't be read as a matched rate.
source: IIHS · Jul 23, 2026 ↗source: Waymo Safety Impact · through Mar 2026 ↗n/a
Sources & details
Not calculable from public data — Tesla has not published the robotaxi mileage a current rate requires
Historical context only: an early-Austin estimate (Feb 2026) put the rate around 9–18 per million miles — 14 crashes ÷ ~0.8M estimated miles, most driven with safety monitors aboard — roughly 4× a human benchmark. That estimate covers a different window, fleet, and driving mode than Waymo's figures and is not comparable to them. Robotaxis must also report every minor contact while humans only generate police reports.
source: Electrek / Bloomberg · Feb 2026 ↗CITIES IN SERVICE
Metros with public, fully driverless rides today
11
PhoenixSF Bay AreaLos AngelesAtlantaAustinDallasHoustonSan AntonioMiamiOrlandoNashville
Sources & details
San Diego and Denver launches imminent (final approvals in hand; Waymo says 'before the end of summer' for San Diego) · Munich announced Aug 25 as first international market, service targeted late 2027 · CPUC allows paid driverless rides across 18 CA counties
source: Waymo · Jul 8, 2026 ↗6
AustinDallasHoustonMiamiOrlandoTampa
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SF Bay Area not counted — rides there still require a human safety driver · Las Vegas next: NTA permit for up to 5,000 vehicles granted Aug 20; no service start yet · Cybercab joins the Austin fleet at a Sept 3 launch event
source: Not a Tesla App · Jul 21, 2026 ↗CARS ON THE ROAD
Driverless vehicles currently deployed
~3,000
Sources & details
Per CPUC expansion filing coverage · 953 more Ojai units staged at the Mesa, AZ plant (684 ready) as of Aug 12
source: Electrek · Aug 14, 2026 ↗~85
Sources & details
Community-tracked active commercial Robotaxis across all 6 metros (Aug 26) · Tesla says the unsupervised fleet is 'a lot bigger' but discloses no numbers; Electrek estimates only ~20–30 running unsupervised
source: Not a Tesla App · Aug 26, 2026 ↗HUMAN DRIVERS — THE BENCHMARK
Not a robotaxi. This is the everyday risk baseline: average US human driving.
~1.9
crashes per million miles
Sources & details
≈6 million police-reported crashes a year ÷ ~3.2 trillion miles driven
Most minor human crashes never get a police report, so the true rate is several times higher — robotaxis, by contrast, must report every incident to NHTSA
source: NHTSA crash overview ↗107
deaths on US roads every day
Sources & details
≈39,000 deaths in 2024 — a rate of 1.2 per 100 million miles driven
Robotaxi deaths caused to date, both companies combined: 0
source: NHTSA · 2024 estimate ↗