Tesla Is Getting Better About Reporting FSD Crash Data — but the Numbers Are Still Misleading

Why It Matters

The credibility of Tesla’s safety metrics is crucial for consumer trust and regulatory scrutiny as the company pushes FSD toward full autonomy, and the continued opacity may hinder adoption and invite tighter oversight.

Summary

Tesla has launched a new online safety hub that breaks out mileage and crash statistics for its Autopilot and Full Self‑Driving (FSD) systems, showing 6.47 billion FSD miles driven and a claim of a major collision every 5.1 million miles versus 699,000 miles for the average U.S. driver. The report now separates highway from non‑highway miles, addressing earlier criticism that Tesla’s quarterly safety disclosures focused on highway‑only Autopilot data. However, safety experts such as Noah Goodall and Philip Koopman argue the figures remain misleading because they omit injury and fatality data, rely on voluntary reporting, and lack independent verification, contrasting with Waymo’s publicly vetted safety disclosures.