FSD’s big safety numbers
Tesla’s Full Self‑Driving is being touted for road trips with over 8 billion real‑world miles driven and roughly 3 billion city miles logged — the post claims 1 major collision every 5.3 million miles and says FSD is 7x safer than the U.S. average []. The thread frames FSD as a trip‑changer that lets drivers relax or nap on long runs, fueling the road‑trip conversation online [].
Tesla posted the safety graphic and data on its official X account on Feb. 18, 2026, alongside a brief thread promoting FSD Supervised. (teslarati.com) In the North American slice of Tesla’s dataset the company reported 830 “major collisions” across roughly 4.4 billion miles of monitored driving. (driveteslacanada.ca) Federal crash statistics used for national baselines show an estimated 5.93 million police‑reported traffic crashes and about 3.20 trillion vehicle‑miles traveled in 2022, figures referenced when computing the U.S. average crash rate. (rosap.ntl.bts.gov) Regulatory pressure is active: the NHTSA opened a broad probe covering about 2.9 million Tesla vehicles in October 2025, and the agency granted a deadline extension that moved Tesla’s required crash‑data delivery to March 9, 2026. (cbsnews.com) For industry contrast, Waymo has publicly shared roughly 127 million fully autonomous (no human driver) miles in its safety disclosures through September 2025, a dataset the company uses to quantify robotaxi safety where it operates. (waymo.com) Independent trackers and Tesla watchers chart a rapid ramp in supervised FSD miles, from about 6 million miles in 2021 to multi‑hundred‑million and then multi‑billion annual totals by 2024–25, a growth curve noted in recent coverage. (teslarati.com)
