Products: Robotaxi. Risk band: Elevated RobotRisk index 24.2/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 90th percentile of 89 av trucking companies.
The record contains four entries spanning October 2021 to May 2022: a 2021 crash into a road center divider and traffic sign in Fremont (severity 2), a December 2021 California DMV suspension of its driverless testing permit (severity 3), the March 2022 NHTSA recall, the first-ever recall of an automated driving system (severity 3), and a May 2022 California DMV revocation of its autonomous testing permit (severity 3). The dominant entries are regulator-driven actions, three of the four, with only one press-reported crash event, indicating a record built primarily on sustained regulatory scrutiny rather than a series of physical incidents. The trajectory over roughly seven months moves from a crash through escalating state-level suspension and revocation actions alongside a federal recall. This four-event, regulator-concentrated pattern produces an index of 22.1, the highest raw index among the companies in this brief, placing Pony.AI at the 89.8th percentile of the av-trucking category in the elevated band.
| Sev | Date | Type | Location | Incident | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S3 | 05/2022 | regulatory | — | California DMV revokes Pony.ai autonomous testing permit · California testing permit revoked | TechCrunch |
| S3 | 03/08 2022 |
recall | — | NHTSA announces first-ever recall of an automated driving system, targeting Pony.ai · software recall, Pony.ai test fleet | Reuters |
| S2 | crash | Fremont, CA, USA | Pony.ai robotaxi hits road center divider and traffic sign in Fremont · 1 vehicle | Reuters | |
| S3 | regulatory | — | California DMV suspends Pony.ai driverless testing permit · California driverless testing permit s… | Reuters |