"Both crashes happened in Austin, Texas and occurred at low speeds. In each case, there was a safety monitor behind the wheel and no passengers were onboard. The new information comes just a few months after Tesla told lawmakers that it allows remote operators to pilot one of the company's vehicles as long as they stay under 10 miles per hour. "This capability enables Tesla to promptly move a vehicle that may be in a compromising position, thereby mitigating the need to wait for a first responder or Tesla field representative to manually recover the vehicle," the company said at the time."
"In July 2025, shortly after Tesla first started operating the network in Austin, the company's automated driving system (ADS) apparently had trouble moving forward while stopped on a street. The safety monitor requested help from Tesla's remote assistance team, and a teleoperator "took over vehicle control and gradually increased vehicle speed and turned the Tesla ADS left toward the left side of the street." The teleoperator then drove "up the curb and made contact with a metal fence.""
"A similar sequence played out in January 2026. The Tesla ADS was driving the vehicle straight on a street, when th"
Two low-speed crashes in Austin, Texas occurred while a teleoperator remotely drove Tesla vehicles with a safety monitor behind the wheel and no passengers onboard. In July 2025, the automated driving system had trouble moving forward while stopped, prompting the safety monitor to request help from Tesla’s remote assistance team. A teleoperator took over vehicle control, gradually increased speed, and turned the automated system left toward the left side of the street, then drove up the curb and contacted a metal fence. A similar sequence occurred in January 2026 when the automated system drove straight and the teleoperator intervened, with NHTSA receiving unredacted narrative descriptions for 17 crashes recorded since last year.
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