EVwire brief: Tesla has released new Full Self-Driving (FSD) Supervised safety data. The system now goes 6,006,200 miles (9.67 million kilometers) between major collisions in North America, about 9x farther than the U.S. average.
Teslas driven manually with Active Safety features went 2,031,221 miles (3.27 million km) per major collision. Meanwhile, Teslas driven manually without those features went 845,915 miles (1.36 million km). The U.S. average sits at 660,164 miles (1.06 million km). The data covers all road classes, highway and non-highway, and reflects a rolling 12-month aggregation of miles and collisions.
Here's Tesla’s breakdown of its new data:
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As per Tesla’s updated FSD safety report, Teslas with FSD Supervised engaged logged 1,579 major collisions across 9,483,790,215 miles (15.26 billion km). Here's how that compares with the other groups in Tesla's report:
Teslas driven manually with Active Safety: 17,775 major collisions across 36,104,958,020 miles (58.11 billion km)
Teslas driven manually without Active Safety: 239 major collisions across 202,173,600 miles (325.37 million km)
U.S. drivers overall: 4,989,713 major collisions across about 3.29 trillion miles (5.30 trillion km)
Tesla's chart also tracks minor collisions. There, FSD Supervised went about 1.8 million miles (2.90 million km) per minor collision, compared with about 685,000 miles (1.10 million km) for manually driven Teslas with Active Safety, 285,000 miles (458,700 km) without it, and 225,000 miles (362,100 km) for the U.S. average.
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Context:
Tesla's report counts a major collision as one where the airbags or another non-reversible restraint deploy, while minor collisions are lower-severity impacts that don't trigger them. If FSD Supervised was active at any point in the five seconds before an impact, Tesla counts the collision as an FSD crash, and the company does not assign fault in any of the figures.
The U.S. average is Tesla's own estimate, built from Federal Highway Administration mileage data and NHTSA crash sampling data, and the collision rates are updated every quarter.
The North American figures land as FSD Supervised keeps expanding in Europe, where the system is now called Tesla Assisted Driving (TAD). Latvia recently became Europe's tenth country to approve FSD/TAD.
Tesla has been publishing safety data for Europe too. Tesla's FSD evidence dashboard puts its European and North American datasets into one page. For example, figures from Belgium show a 9.6x lower crash rate off highways.
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