DatabaseSafety

Is riding a robotaxi safe, and can anyone honestly say?

1 of 11 operators on the federal crash record publish enough exposure for a rate to exist at all.

Operators with a computable rate
1 / 11
The rest file crashes but no mileage anyone can divide by
Reports in scope
355
Driverless filings, 2026Q1. 2 name no operator and cannot be rated
Months on the record
63
2021-07 to 2026-09 · 2 still accruing

Rate board

Reports per million driverless miles in California, 2026Q1. The divisor is California mileage, so only the reports filed in California enter the numerator — the count in each row is the national one, and the share of it that is rateable is drawn alongside. The 95% interval is exact Poisson: it widens sharply on small counts, which is most operators here.

12 rows
Rows without a rate are not safer. They are operators no regulator publishes mileage for. See what the divisor is worth →
95% interval
Waymo2886.675.72 – 7.73176 of 288 · 61.1%
Avride29no rate computable0 of 29 · 0.0%
Zoox21no rate computable12 of 21 · 57.1%
Tesla7no rate computable0 of 7 · 0.0%
Motional3no rate computable0 of 3 · 0.0%
May Mobility2no rate computable0 of 2 · 0.0%
Unattributed2no rate computable
Aurora1no rate computable0 of 1 · 0.0%
Nuro1no rate computable0 of 1 · 0.0%
WeRide1no rate computable1 of 1 · 100.0%
Cruise0no rate computable
Pony.ai0no rate computable
No rows match this filter.

Do they report the same way?

No. The share of filings made under the 5-Day rule — triggered by severity, typically a tow-away — differs by more than an order of magnitude. Until that is equal, raw crash counts between operators measure filing practice as much as events.

waymo42%
zoox30%
cruise24%
nuro3/14
avride20%
motional8%
aurora8%
weride1/13
maymobility7%
tesla5%
pony0/7
Under 20 filings, a percentage would be noise. Method →

Reports by month

Month resolution only. Hatched rows are months whose filings are still arriving — their bars will grow.

63 rows
2021-0715Complete
2021-0822Complete
2021-0919Complete
2021-1025Complete
2021-1129Complete
2021-1217Complete
2022-0118Complete
2022-0216Complete
2022-0322Complete
2022-0427Complete
2022-0524Complete
2022-0624Complete
2022-0727Complete
2022-0839Complete
2022-0921Complete
2022-1012Complete
2022-1113Complete
2022-1224Complete
2023-0110Complete
2023-0223Complete
2023-0339Complete
2023-0430Complete
2023-0534Complete
2023-0637Complete
2023-0751Complete
2023-0882Complete
2023-0952Complete
2023-1045Complete
2023-1116Complete
2023-1224Complete
2024-0125Complete
2024-0227Complete
2024-0332Complete
2024-0424Complete
2024-0545Complete
2024-0647Complete
2024-0741Complete
2024-0851Complete
2024-0969Complete
2024-1070Complete
2024-1174Complete
2024-1287Complete
2025-0183Complete
2025-0285Complete
2025-0379Complete
2025-0498Complete
2025-05112Complete
2025-0673Complete
2025-0766Complete
2025-0861Complete
2025-0967Complete
2025-1097Complete
2025-11112Complete
2025-12109Complete
2026-01118Complete
2026-0292Complete
2026-03145Complete
2026-04141Complete
2026-05118Complete
2026-06129Complete
2026-07120Complete
2026-08103Still arriving
2026-0912Still arriving
No rows match this filter.