Tesla has launched a Robotaxi safety website whose weekly data show about 70% of its driverless miles were driven in the seven weeks since late August, as the service scaled up with the Cybercab.
The site publishes, for the first time, how far the fleet has driven city by city and week by week, putting the total at 3.1 million miles with no safety monitor on board between January 22 and October 18, against about 937,000 by the week of August 24.
The page, titled “Vehicle Safety Report,” says the fleet injured nobody, deployed none of its own airbags and hit no pedestrians or cyclists over those miles, and compares that record with Texas police data that it says show human drivers would have caused about 9.1 injury collisions over the same distance.
It also explains its methodology in detail, cites its sources, and lets visitors download every crash Tesla reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in the period, a level of disclosure the company had not offered before.
The page appeared ahead of Tesla’s third-quarter results on Wednesday.
What the Website Shows
The headline counter reads more than 3.3 million miles, which Tesla says is a live estimate based on the fleet’s current pace, while the reported figures run to October 18.
Austin accounts for 2.12 million of the 3.11 million miles, or 68%, followed by Dallas with 608,130, Houston with 225,964, Orlando with 61,053, Tampa with 53,117 and Miami with 46,262.
The website breaks out driving conditions too, with 862,000 miles driven after dark, about 28% of the total, 575,000 in weekday rush hours and at least 113,000 in rain, a figure Tesla calls a minimum because it counts only hours when the local airport reported rain.
It says each vehicle’s neural network processes “over one million pixels of anonymized visual data every millisecond” from cameras giving a 360-degree view.
The page lists Las Vegas, Jacksonville, Phoenix and San Antonio as coming soon. Tesla’s second-quarter update had marked Phoenix and Las Vegas as “Preparations Underway” and did not mention Jacksonville or San Antonio.
Q3 Push
Until now, Tesla had given its driverless mileage only in round numbers, citing more than 380,000 unsupervised miles on its second-quarter call in July and more than 1 million when Head of AI Software Ashok Elluswamy launched the Cybercab in Austin on September 3.
The weekly data on the new site match both figures and show how quickly the service has scaled since.
Austin logged 235 miles in its first driverless week from January 19 and only about 1,770 by mid-March.
January 22 was the day Tesla began offering public rides in Austin without a safety monitor, and Chief Executive Elon Musk said a week later that it had also dropped the chase vehicles that had followed early trips.
Dallas and Houston began driverless operation in the week of April 13, Miami in the week of June 29, and Orlando and Tampa in the week of July 20.
The fleet reached about 425,000 miles by the week of July 20 and 1.11 million by the week of August 31, and about 70% of all driverless miles were driven in the seven weeks since late August.
In the week starting October 12, the fleet drove about 558,000 miles, of which 437,800 were in Austin, up from about 129,000 in Austin in the week starting August 31.
That growth coincides with the Cybercab rollout, after Tesla said on October 10 that it had more than 300 Cybercabsserving Austin, an eightfold increase in 30 days, and with its registered Cybercab count nearly doubling in Texas.
Tesla has said the Cybercab is coming to Dallas soon.
The Safety Figures
The safety results cover every crash Tesla reported to NHTSA under its Standing General Order while Robotaxi was driving with no safety monitor inside, including when a remote operator was assisting or had taken control, and exclude earlier driving with a monitor on board.
The “people injured” figure counts anyone injured “in a collision in which Robotaxi made first contact,” while the airbag figure counts the Robotaxi’s own airbags.
Tesla says it left two filed events out of the injury count and explains both on the page: a multi-vehicle crash in Dallas in which a third party was hospitalized after another car pushed an SUV into a Robotaxi waiting at a stop sign, and a pothole in which a rider claimed injury but Tesla’s investigation found none.
The human benchmark covers the 2.95 million miles driven in Austin, Dallas and Houston, 95% of the total, uses 2024 Texas crash records, and adds the roughly 32% of injury crashes that a NHTSA study estimated go unreported to police.
Tesla notes that police reports “do not record which vehicle made first contact,” so the human figures count every such crash regardless of which vehicle struck first.
The benchmark works out to about 3.1 injury collisions per million miles, close to the 3.25 per million that Waymo uses for human drivers in Austin on its own safety hub, which reports 271.3 million rider-only miles through June and counts crashes regardless of fault.
The Crash List
The downloadable file lists 32 crashes from May 23 to October 18, a period in which the fleet drove about 3 million miles, and all but two were reported as property damage only.
In all but one the Robotaxi was moving at 6 mph or less or was stationary, and in 16 of them another vehicle struck the Robotaxi, often from behind while it was stopped at a light or in traffic.
Most of the others were low-speed contacts in parking lots and alleys, including six with low-hanging chains strung across lot entrances, while three occurred under remote control.
Seventeen of the 32 already appear in NHTSA’s public crash data, which the agency releases a month or more after filing, so the file gives an earlier view of the remaining 15.
Musk has said the service’s hours are limited mainly because the vehicles struggle to see pets in the dark, and Tesla has until October 30 to answer a NHTSA Special Order on how it self-certified the Cybercab.
Musk wrote on X on Sunday that Optimus and Cybercab “will be the vast majority of Tesla’s value.”
Tesla reports third-quarter results after the market close on Wednesday, with a webcast at 5:30 p.m. New York time.
