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v1 · updated 19 Oct 2026
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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

AIR-2026-0216 AIR record · 2026-09-electrek-tesla-redacted-sgo-fatal-crashes
A real party was affected. This incident caused actual consequences, not a demonstrated capability.
From the supporting source
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.electrek.co
The record
Disclosed
2026-09-01
Vendor
Tesla
Product
Tesla Autopilot / Full Self-Driving (Supervised) (Tesla redacts which)
Risk domain
Agent behaviour › Unsafe actuation
System type
Classical autonomy (no generative model)
Who acted
Agent acted (contested) — driver-assist engaged per Tesla's filings; supervision and causation not adjudicated
Attack surface
Autonomous operations
Autonomy level
Semi-autonomous
Initial vector
None autonomous action
Impact type
Physical safety
Confidence
Medium
Submitted by
EAI Internal
Crosswalk
OWASP Agentic Top 10 (2026)
ASI01 – Agent Goal Hijack
MITRE ATLAS
AML.T0048 – External Harms
NIST AI RMF
MEASURE 2.6; MANAGE 1.3
EU AI Act
Annex III §1(c)
ISO/IEC
TR 24028; 24029-1; 23894
AIUC-1
C. Safety
Scope
agent misuse
Mitigation
Require confirmation for destructive actions; Implement dry-run modes; Use layered safety controls.
Taxonomy
Enkrypt AI agent risk taxonomy · Black-Box Red Teaming of Agentic AI: A Taxonomy-Driven Framework for Automated Risk Discovery
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
Capability abused
autonomous_drivinglane_keepingspeed_controlstop_sign_handlingphantom_stop
Defense & remediation
Recorded defense
driver supervision requirement (Level 2); NHTSA Standing General Order 2021-01 crash reporting
Guardrail kinds
Human supervision
Guardrail outcome
Silent
Fix shipped
none; Electrek filing public-records requests with investigating agencies; NHTSA separately investigating Tesla's crash reporting
Taxonomy & references
no_adversaryfatalityphysical_worldvendor_data_redactionsgo_reportsystemic_disclosure_failureattribution_disputedstopped_in_live_laneroad_departurepress_investigation
Curator 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.
Cite as
Enkrypt AI. "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". AIR, AIR-2026-0216. https://agentincident.vercel.app/i/AIR-2026-0216/ (accessed 2026-10-19).