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Tesla presented misleading 'Full Self-Driving' safety data to European ... Reuters In its efforts to secure European approval of its "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) system, Tesla has presented self-published safety statistics to regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands that independent traffic-safety researchers have said ​amount to misleading marketing. A Reuters examination published last month found that Tesla CEO Elon ​Musk and other leaders over the past year have increasingly cited statistics they say prove its FSD driver-assistance feature is up to 10 times safer than ​human drivers. But the news agency's review found several invalid data comparisons underlying Tesla's statistics that exaggerated its safety claims. Tesla has presented the inflated safety data to some European regulators, according to correspondence obtained by Reuters through public records requests, as the EV maker seeks wider approval of FSD in a region where it is trying to regain market share. Tesla approached RDW, the Dutch road regulator, in late 2024 to begin the FSD approval process. In a November 2024 letter to RDW, Tesla provided a link ‌to its safety report and ⁠claimed "increased usage" of ⁠FSD "leads…

Tesla's New FSD Safety Data Under Fire: Experts Call Numbers Misleading ... Tesla just launched a new safety reporting hub for its Full Self-Driving technology, claiming FSD drivers go 5.1 million miles between major crashes versus 699,000 miles for average drivers. But safety experts are calling the data misleading, saying Tesla's history of deceptive reporting makes these numbers hard to trust despite the company's attempt at transparency. Tesla thinks new data will solve its credibility problem. The company just dropped a dedicated safety hub for Full Self-Driving technology, complete with a live mile counter showing 6.47 billion FSD miles driven and impressive crash statistics that put human drivers to shame. The numbers look compelling on paper. Tesla claims FSD drivers travel 5.1 million miles before a major collision and 1.5 million miles before minor ones - dramatically better than average US drivers who crash every 699,000 and 229,000 miles respectively. It's the kind of data that should silence critics and boost confidence in autonomous driving. But safety researchers aren't buying it. "Yeah on the surface it looks like FSD is performing fairly well," Noah Goodall, a civ…

7/23/25 Tesla's Robotaxi Push Stalls Amid Consumer Skepticism and ... What We're Reading July 23, 2025 AI,AstraZero,Autonomous Vehicles,EVs,Lucid,NHTSA,Nuro,Robotaxis,Self-Driving Cars,Tesla,Uber,Waymo Last updated on February 9th, 2026 at 07:49 pm Tesla skepticism continues to grow, robotaxi demo fails to impress Austin(Jonathan M. Gitlin – July 22, 2025) A newElectric Vehicle Intelligence Reportshows Tesla has plummeted to become America’s least-trusted automotive brand, ranking below all major competitors in consumer confidence, particularly around safety and corporate integrity. The survey placed Tesla dead last in “trust integrity” metrics, signaling widespread skepticism about the company’s reliability and transparency. This erosion of public faith stems largely from mounting safety concerns surrounding Tesla’s autonomous driving technology, including a series of high-profile accidents involving Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems. The timing couldn’t be worse for Tesla, which is simultaneously pushing forward with its robotaxi pilot program in Austin while facing intensified regulatory oversight and an increasingly wary consumer base that questions both its safety…

Tesla presented misleading ‘Full Self-Driving’ safety data to European regulators Regulators in other European countries have been inundated by drivers citing Tesla’s safety statistics and urging swift approval of FSD, ‌emails showed

Tesla accused of misleading regulators with 'Full Self-Driving ... Monday, June 15, 202678°Today's Paper By Chris Kirkham and Marie Mannes /Reuters Today REUTERS/JOEL ANGEL JUAREZ/FILE PHOTO A Tesla robotaxi drives on the street along South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, in June 2025. In its efforts to secure European approval of its “Full Self-Driving” system, Tesla has presented self-published safety statistics to regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands that independent traffic-safety researchers have said amount to misleading marketing. In its efforts to secure European approval of its “Full Self-Driving” system, Tesla has presented self-published safety statistics to regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands that independent traffic-safety researchers have said amount to misleading marketing. A Reuters examination published last month found that Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other leaders over the past year have increasingly cited statistics they say prove its FSD driver-assistance feature is up to 10 times safer than human drivers. But the news agency’s review found several invalid data comparisons underlying Tesla’s statistics that exaggerated its safety claims. Tesla ha…

Tesla Finally Releases FSD Crash Data That Appears More Honest Innovation Transportation Tesla Finally Releases FSD Crash Data That Appears More Honest By Brad Templeton , Senior Contributor. Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brad Templeton, who was early at Waymo, covers transportation's future Follow Author Nov 14, 2025, 04:48pm EST Nov 15, 2025, 07:26pm EST Tesla chart comparing crash rates (Non-highway, global) for FSD, regular Teslas and old Teslas Tesla Tesla recently released crash data on their Supervised FSD system , reporting the average number of miles driven per collision for cars in different configurations and on different roads. This replaces the notorious Autopilot data Tesla has released for several years which has been widely criticized for being highly misleading. Tesla has corrected a number of the errors in their methodology, and now claims cars driving with FSD (Supervised) on have almost 1.5x as good a safety record globally on city streets as similar Teslas driven manually, and 4 times better than very old Teslas that lacked ADAS collision warning systems and other active safety tools. The record is almost 2x better t…

Tesla's own AI trainers don't trust 'Full Self-Driving' or its safety ... A major Reuters investigation published today reveals that Tesla’s widely touted “Full Self-Driving” safety statistics are built on deeply flawed methodology — and that the company’s own data labelers, the workers who train the AI system, don’t trust the technology to drive them. The report, based on interviews with nine former Tesla data labelers, a former self-driving engineer, and 11 traffic-safety researchers, paints a damning picture of the gap between Tesla’s safety marketing and the reality of its autonomous driving program. We’ve beencalling out Tesla’s misleading FSD safety claimsfor a while now, and the Reuters investigation confirms the core problem with hard data. Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other executives have repeatedly claimed that “Full Self-Driving” is up to 10 times safer than human drivers. Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja first made this claim last July, and Tesla Board Chair Robyn Denholm repeated it at a November shareholder meeting. Musk himself displayed a chart at that meeting claiming “85% less crashes.” Reuters foundthat a central comparison error inflated Tesla’s claimed safety level by…

Exclusive-Tesla presented misleading 'Full Self-Driving' safety data to ... Audio By Carbonatix By Chris Kirkham and Marie Mannes June 15 (Reuters) – In its efforts to secure European approval of its “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) system, Tesla has presented self-published safety statistics to regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands that independent traffic-safety researchers have said amount to misleading marketing. A Reuters examination published last month found that Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other leaders over the past year have increasingly cited statistics they say prove its FSD driver-assistance feature is up to 10 times safer than human drivers. But the news agency’s review found several invalid data comparisons underlying Tesla’s statistics that exaggerated its safety claims. Tesla has presented the inflated safety data to some European regulators, according to correspondence obtained by Reuters through public records requests, as the EV maker seeks wider approval of FSD in a region where it is trying to regain market share. Tesla approached RDW, the Dutch road regulator, in late 2024 to begin the FSD approval process. In a November 2024 letter to RDW, Tesla provided a lin…

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