Tesla releases detailed safety report after Waymo co-CEO called for more data

Tesla has released a detailed safety report on its Full Self-Driving (FSD) (Supervised) software, providing new data on its performance and collision rates in North America. According to Tesla, drivers using FSD travel approximately 2.9 million miles between major collisions and about 986,000 miles between minor collisions. These figures are significantly better than the national averages reported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which indicate a major collision every 505,000 miles and a minor collision every 178,000 miles. Tesla defines major collisions as those involving airbag deployment or other irreversible restraints and includes incidents where FSD was active within five seconds before a collision, capturing a broad range of scenarios. This release follows calls from Waymo’s co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana for greater transparency from companies deploying autonomous driving technologies. Mawakana criticized the lack of publicly available data from companies like Tesla, emphasizing the responsibility to share safety information when removing drivers from behind the