Products: n/a. Risk band: Elevated RobotRisk index 21.1/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 89th percentile of 89 av trucking companies.
The record for Avride comprises two entries spanning a federal regulatory probe and a low-severity malfunction, yielding an index of 21.3 and placing the company at the 88.6th percentile within the av-trucking category, an elevated band. NHTSA's opening of a probe following Texas crashes is the dominant event and establishes this as a regulator-driven record rather than a press-driven one. The malfunction entry, an animal strike that prompted a voluntary testing pause, is low in severity relative to the regulatory action. The two-entry record does not establish a repeating pattern; it reflects a single regulatory intervention with an ancillary operational incident.
| Sev | Date | Type | Location | Incident | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S3 | 05/2026 | regulatory | TX, USA | NHTSA opens probe into Avride after Texas self-driving crashes · 37 cumulative logged accidents; formal… | Reuters |
| S1 | 04/2026 | malfunction | Austin, TX, USA | Avride autonomous vehicle strikes and kills a duck in Austin, prompting testing pause · 1 vehicle, animal fatality | KXAN |