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Tesla remote operators involved in five Robotaxi crashes, data shows

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Tesla reported two new Robotaxi crashes to federal regulators in which a remote operator, not the autonomous system, was driving the vehicle. Both occurred in August and appear in NHTSA's September release of Standing General Order (SGO) data. In Dallas, a Model Y made contact with a parked SUV at about 0.40 mph; in Austin, it struck a dumpster at about 1 mph. Neither carried passengers, and both are property-damage-only. With these reports, Tesla has 36 unique Robotaxi incidents and five cases of remote control, all ending in a collision.…

🔎 Why it matters: Five remote interventions appear in Tesla's SGO data, and all five ended in a collision, including two new August cases in Dallas and Austin. Waymo, in a February 2026 letter to Senator Ed Markey, said it has not used remote driving where a human performs the Dynamic Driving Task
📈 Upside: Three of the five cases are now formally coded as remote operation, so they can be counted in SGO data.
📉 Risk: Tesla does not disclose how often remote operators intervene, so with five cases the collision rate per intervention cannot be calculated.
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