{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0216",
 "incident_id": "2026-09-electrek-tesla-redacted-sgo-fatal-crashes",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-09-01",
 "date_occurred": null,
 "title": "Electrek matched seven more fatal Tesla crashes reported publicly as ordinary accidents to Tesla's redacted NHTSA filings showing driver-assist 'Verified Engaged' - including two vehicles stopped at 0 mph in live freeway lanes and a stop-sign run at 4 mph",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_driving",
  "lane_keeping",
  "speed_control",
  "stop_sign_handling",
  "phantom_stop"
 ],
 "target_product": "Tesla Autopilot / Full Self-Driving (Supervised) (Tesla redacts which)",
 "target_vendor": "Tesla",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "physical_safety"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "seven fatal crashes across Texas, Florida, Arizona, Ohio, New Jersey, Alabama and Missouri (2024-2026), each with at least one death; Tesla redacts narratives on 99.9% of ~3,763 SGO reports",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "fatality",
   "physical_world",
   "vendor_data_redaction",
   "sgo_report",
   "systemic_disclosure_failure",
   "attribution_disputed",
   "stopped_in_live_lane",
   "road_departure",
   "press_investigation"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "driver supervision requirement (Level 2); NHTSA Standing General Order 2021-01 crash reporting",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "none; Electrek filing public-records requests with investigating agencies; NHTSA separately investigating Tesla's crash reporting",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://electrek.co/2026/09/01/tesla-autopilot-fsd-crashes-hidden-data/",
  "https://www.techtimes.com/articles/326683/20260904/tesla-withholds-fsd-crash-data-prosecutors-fatal-illinois-turn-case.htm"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "Each of these was reported publicly as an ordinary crash, with no mention of Autopilot or FSD — until Tesla’s own redacted NHTSA report revealed the system was engaged.",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "notes": "BUNDLED RECORD, deliberately: the unit here is Electrek's 1 Sep 2026 investigative disclosure (updated 10 Sep) that matched redacted SGO filings to named fatal crashes, analogous to a coordinated advisory bundling many artifacts; a later pass may split any crash into its own record once independent sourcing exists. The Batavia, Illinois crash from the same investigation is recorded separately (2026-03-tesla-fsd-batavia-illinois-fatal-left-turn) because it has independent coverage and prosecutor review. The other seven per Electrek: Clute, TX (Steven Alvarez, 23; left road at 104 mph, police suspected medical episode); Lake Mary, FL (43-year-old; Model 3 stopped at 0 mph in a live I-4 lane, rear-ended by a semi); Mesa, AZ (Model 3 stopped at 0 mph on Loop 202 at 3 am, rear-ended); Moraine, OH (motorcyclist Leonidas Davis, 55, struck by a Model X never publicly identified as a Tesla); Buena Vista Township, NJ (Model 3 ran a stop sign at 4 mph, killing Stephen Field, 82 - a manoeuvre pointing to FSD); Vinemont, AL (Kayleigh Page, 29; 2021 Model Y left Highway 157 at 55 mph, caught fire); Pattonsburg, MO (64-year-old; 2024 Model Y left I-35 at 73 mph). In every case the system was engaged within 30 seconds of impact per Tesla's own filing; whether it caused the crash is unknown because Tesla redacts narrative, software version and operating-domain fields as confidential business information (GM, Ford, Honda, Toyota redact essentially none). The two 0-mph freeway stops echo the TechRadar-reported 'complete stop' fatal crashes. Occurrence dates span 2024-2026 and are not individually given in the cited text, hence date_occurred null. Press-only, hence medium.",
 "risk_category": "safety_harm",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "reliability"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Physical Injury by Autonomous Action",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "non_generative_autonomy",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": true,
 "agency_reason": "driver-assist engaged per Tesla's filings; supervision and causation not adjudicated",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "human_supervision"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "none",
 "agent_framework": "adas",
 "model_provider": "none",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "unsafe_actuation",
 "eai_domain": "agent_behaviour",
 "eai_secondary": [],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Physical Injury by Autonomous Action",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "out_of_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "out_of_scope",
 "asi_reason": "out of scope: non_generative_autonomy: no ASI mechanism describes the failure",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}