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NHTSA finds 60 FSD Beta crashes and one fatality over 12-month period

S3 · 08/2022 · Tesla

Record

CompanyTesla
Categoryav trucking
Typemalfunction
Date08/2022
Time of daynot documented
Locationno physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record)
SeverityS3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault)
Scale60 crashes, 1 fatality
Confidencemedium
VerificationCited source on file; not independently re-verified
SourceWikipedia (citing NHTSA data)

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NHTSA reported that during roughly August 2022 to August 2023, vehicles using FSD Beta software were involved in 60 crashes and one fatality, feeding into the agencys broader Autopilot/FSD defect investigation.

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