October 21, 2026·6 min read·By Learn My EV

Tesla's New Robotaxi Safety Report: 3.1 Million Driverless Miles, Zero Injuries. What It Shows and What It Doesn't

Tesla's new Robotaxi safety page shows 3.1M driverless miles with zero injuries, plus miles by city. The numbers, the human comparison and the fine print.

Tesla's New Robotaxi Safety Report: 3.1 Million Driverless Miles, Zero Injuries. What It Shows and What It Doesn't

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Tesla just published something it has never shown before: a dedicated Robotaxi safety report, with a live counter of driverless miles and a city-by-city breakdown. The headline numbers: more than 3.1 million miles driven with no one in the driver's seat, and, by Tesla's count, zero people injured, zero airbag deployments and zero pedestrians or cyclists hit. Here's everything on the new page, how Tesla counts it, and what to keep in mind when reading it.

3.1M+
Driverless Robotaxi miles (Jan 22 – Oct 18, 2026)
0
People injured in collisions where Robotaxi made first contact
9.1
Injury collisions human drivers would be expected to have in the same Texas miles
What's on Tesla's new Robotaxi safety page
  • A live counter of autonomous miles, past 3.3 million as of October 21
  • 0 people injured, 0 Robotaxi airbag deployments, 0 pedestrians or cyclists hit
  • Miles by city across Texas and Florida
  • 862,000 miles after dark, 113,000 in rain and 575,000 in rush hour
  • Comparisons with human drivers based on Texas police crash data
  • A detailed methodology and a download of all crash reports Tesla filed with NHTSA
Tesla Robotaxi safety report: 3.1 million driverless miles with zero people injured, zero airbag deployments and zero pedestrians or cyclists hit
Tesla's headline numbers, January 22 to October 18, 2026. (Graphic: Learn My EV, data from Tesla)

Robotaxi Miles by City

Tesla's fleet is driving autonomously, with no safety monitor in the car, in six cities across Texas and Florida. Austin, where the service launched, still makes up most of the miles, but Dallas has quickly become the second-largest market.

CityDriverless milesShare
Austin, TX2,118,01568%
Dallas, TX608,13020%
Houston, TX225,9647%
Orlando, FL61,0532%
Tampa, FL53,1172%
Miami, FL46,2621%
Total~3.11 million

Tesla also lists four cities as coming soon: Las Vegas, Jacksonville, Phoenix and San Antonio. (See our earlier coverage of the Miami launch, Tampa and Orlando, and Nevada's robotaxi approval.)

Driving in Real-World Conditions

One common criticism of robotaxis is that they only drive in easy conditions. Tesla's page breaks out tougher driving:

  • 862,000 miles after dark, about 28% of all miles
  • 575,000 miles in rush hour, defined as weekdays 7–9 AM and 4–7 PM
  • 113,000 miles in rain. Tesla notes this is a minimum, since it only counts hours when the local airport weather station reported rain
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How Tesla Compares Robotaxi to Human Drivers

Tesla compares its record with Texas police crash data from Austin, Dallas and Houston, where Robotaxi drove 2.95 million miles, 95% of its total. Based on 2024 crash records, Tesla calculates that human drivers covering the same miles on the same cities' surface streets would have had about:

OutcomeRobotaxiHuman drivers, same miles
Collisions with injuries0~9.1
Collisions with airbag deployment0~4.1
Collisions with pedestrians or cyclists0~0.52

Tesla's human benchmark also adds the estimated 32% of injury crashes that are never reported to police, based on a 2023 NHTSA study. If those numbers hold up, going nearly 3 million miles without a single injury collision, when about nine would be expected, is a strong result.

Read the Fine Print

To Tesla's credit, the methodology is unusually detailed. It's also important to understand exactly what the numbers do and don't count:

What to keep in mind
  • "First contact" rule: Injuries and pedestrian/cyclist hits are counted only when the Robotaxi made first contact. The human benchmark counts every such crash, because police reports don't record who hit whom first
  • Collisions still happen: The page reports zero injuries, not zero crashes. Tesla files every reportable collision with NHTSA, including minor property damage, and links to the full list, but doesn't show a total collision count on the page
  • Driverless miles only: Miles and crashes with a safety monitor in the car, mostly before January 22, 2026, are excluded
  • Remote help counts: Collisions are included even when a remote operator was assisting or had taken control
  • Two incidents explained: In one, another car pushed an SUV into a stopped Robotaxi, and an occupant of that other car went to the hospital. In another, a rider claimed an injury after a pothole, but Tesla says investigation found none. Neither is counted
  • Limited areas: The fleet operates in defined service areas in six Sun Belt cities, mostly on surface streets, so results may not carry over to every road or climate
  • Self-reported: This is Tesla's own analysis. NHTSA's public crash database, published with a delay of a month or more, allows independent checks
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Why It Matters

Safety data has been the biggest open question for Tesla's camera-only approach to self-driving, and it's what regulators, riders and investors watch most closely. Waymo has published detailed safety comparisons for years. Tesla now has its own public, regularly updated report built on NHTSA's crash filings, with a methodology anyone can read. As Robotaxi expands to Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Antonio and Jacksonville, this page will be where the real track record shows up, for better or worse.

For riders in Dallas, which has already logged more than 600,000 driverless miles, the numbers suggest the service is getting serious real-world use well beyond Austin.

Tesla Robotaxi Safety FAQ

How many miles has Tesla Robotaxi driven?
More than 3.1 million driverless miles from January 22 to October 18, 2026, and over 3.3 million on Tesla's live counter as of October 21.

Has a Tesla Robotaxi injured anyone?
Tesla's report shows zero people injured in collisions where the Robotaxi made first contact, zero Robotaxi airbag deployments and zero pedestrians or cyclists hit.

Which cities have Tesla Robotaxi?
Austin, Dallas and Houston in Texas, and Miami, Orlando and Tampa in Florida. Las Vegas, Jacksonville, Phoenix and San Antonio are listed as coming soon.

Where can I see Tesla's Robotaxi safety report?
At tesla.com/robotaxi/safety, which includes the full methodology and NHTSA crash filings.

The bottom line: Tesla's new safety page is its most detailed public look yet at how its driverless fleet performs: 3.1 million miles, zero injuries by its count, and a clear explanation of how it calculates that. The counting rules favor Robotaxi in some ways, and it's Tesla grading its own work, but the underlying crash reports are public. Watch how these numbers hold up as the fleet grows.