Tesla’s autonomous Robotaxi fleet has gone four straight months without a single collision caused by its Full Self-Driving software, according to the latest crash data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The streak runs from February through the spring, and the fleet did have three minor incidents during that stretch — but all three were caused by other drivers, not the Tesla software. The most recent happened in April when a fully stopped Robotaxi was rear-ended by a pickup truck at a red light. The two March incidents followed the same pattern, with stationary Tesla vehicles getting hit from behind.
Elon Musk noticed the irony and weighed in on social media, pointing out that every collision involving the autonomous fleet has been caused by human error rather than the FSD system itself.
Tesla has been using Austin, Texas as its main real-world testing hub since launching the pilot fleet last summer. Independent trackers estimate the driverless fleet has now logged over 673,000 incident-free miles on public roads.
Supporters of the technology say the numbers prove autonomous systems are already safer than human drivers. Critics say the sample size is still too small to draw firm conclusions and want to see data from a much larger fleet before making that call.
The timing matters for Tesla, which is working to scale its autonomous operations and secure the local regulatory approvals needed to launch broader commercial rideshare service across the US.
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