Tesla reveals details of 17 ‘Robotaxi’ crashes: New safety concerns emerge The release provides the first detailed look at all 17 incidents recorded during its Robotaxi testing program. For months, Tesla stood out among autonomous vehicle companies for one reason: it kept the details of its self-driving crash reports hidden from public view. While other operators submitted detailed incident summaries to the US regulator, Tesla blacked out every narrative entirely, labeling them as confidential business information. That has now changed, and the newly available reports suggest a more nuanced picture than many expected. Most of the 17 incidents involving Tesla’s autonomous driving system were caused by other road users, rather than failures of the software itself. Still, several reports raise new questions, including a handful of incidents where the system’s decisions or reactions appear less straightforward. Companies like Waymo, Zoox, Avride and May Mobility routinely submitted multi-paragraph descriptions to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Tesla alone replaced every account with the same redacted placeholder, making it the only operator to withhold the narratives under the agency’s crash reporting order. Data shows most Tesla Robotaxi incidents were caused by other drivers The release provides the first detailed look at all 17 incidents recorded during its Robotaxi testing program in Austin between July 2025 and March 2026. All incidents involved 2026 Tesla Model Y vehicles operating with the autonomous driving system engaged and a human safety monitor onboard. Most were relatively minor: 13 caused property damage only, two had no injuries, one resulted in a minor injury without hospitalization, and one involved a minor injury requiring hospital treatment. The reports show a pattern already seen across the industry, Electrek writes. Many crashes happened while Tesla vehicles were stationary, waiting at traffic lights, stop signs or in slow traffic. In multiple cases,