There were 207 collisions in one month, a record! Tesla’s autopilot accidents exceed all of 2021: all details are blacked out

Fast Technology News on July 23, Electrek reported that Tesla’s latest accident report submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) showed that its driver assistance system recorded a total of 207 accidents in May 2026, setting a single-month record. This number even exceeds the total number of accidents in 2021, which was 157. NHTSA's Standing General Order (SGO) requires automakers to report if an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) is activated within approximately 30 seconds before a crash and the crash reaches a severity threshold such as airbag deployment, vehicle towing, or casualties. After merging NHTSA's latest exported data with complete archives since 2019 to remove duplicates, Tesla's cumulative L2 autonomous driving (Autopilot and FSD) accidents reached 3,763, accounting for approximately 85% of the total number of ADAS accident reports in the entire industry. Moreover, the growth of accidents is accelerating rather than slowing down. In 2025, Tesla ADAS accidents exceeded 1,000 for the first time, reaching 1,043 for the whole year. In the first half of 2026 alone, 826 cases were recorded. Comparing on the same basis (January to June), the data for the same period in the past five years were 180, 261, 269, 476 and 826 respectively, a year-on-year increase of 73%. At this rate, the number of accidents for the whole of this year will be roughly double that of last year. The increase in the total number of accidents is certainly related to the expansion of the fleet and the increase in FSD mileage, but the key is that Tesla is the only organization that has the denominator data of mileage. Tesla has never released independently audited Autopilot and FSD mileage data, and its quarterly "safety report" has even been criticized by its own AI trainers as misleading. Whether the accident rate per mile is declining is impossible to verify. What is even more concerning is that Tesla deleted 99.9% of the accident descriptions in the 3,763 accident reports on the grounds that they involved trade secrets. Most of the accident severity fields are marked as unknown, and the software version field is also blacked out, making it impossible to distinguish in public documents whether the accident occurred in Autopilot or FSD mode.