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Mercedes-Benz Self-Driving Crashes

5 crashes involving Mercedes-Benz's self-driving vehicles were reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration between March 2022 and August 2023, 0.2% of all reported self-driving crashes. In 20% of them the Mercedes-Benz vehicle was stopped or parked; 40% involved a reported injury.

Crashes reported: 5
Share of all: 0.2%; #16 of 35 companies
Vehicle stopped or parked: 20%
Injury reported: 2
Serious or fatal: 0
Cities: 4

Crashes per month

Mercedes-Benz crashes reported to NHTSA per month

Peak: February 2023, 2 crashes

View as a table

Month	Crashes
March 2022	1
April 2022	0
May 2022	1
June 2022	0
July 2022	0
August 2022	0
September 2022	0
October 2022	0
November 2022	0
December 2022	0
January 2023	0
February 2023	2
March 2023	0
April 2023	0
May 2023	0
June 2023	0
July 2023	0
August 2023	1

A rising line usually means a growing fleet: more vehicles and more miles, in more cities. Without the miles, the count alone cannot say whether Mercedes-Benz's vehicles crash more or less often over time.

Most serious injury reported

Minor injury40% · 2 crashes
No injuries reported60% · 3 crashes

What the Mercedes-Benz vehicle collided with

Another vehicle80% · 4 crashes
Other20% · 1 crashes

Who could take the wheel

Safety driver on board80% · 4 crashes
Unknown20% · 1 crashes

Where they happened

Los Angeles, CA 2 crashes
Commerce, CA 1 crash
Downey, CA 1 crash
Gardena, CA 1 crash

Other companies

Waymo 2,382 crashes
Zoox 170 crashes
Cruise 156 crashes
Avride 84 crashes
May Mobility 48 crashes
Tesla 36 crashes
Motional 28 crashes
Aurora 24 crashes

Every company, ranked.

How to read these numbers

A count is not a rate. A company that drives more miles reports more crashes. NHTSA does not publish the miles behind these reports, so nothing here is divided by distance, and a longer bar does not mean a less safe car.
Being in a crash is not causing it. The reports do not assign fault, and many of these crashes happened while the self-driving vehicle was stopped or parked, often hit from behind.
Companies file these reports themselves. NHTSA publishes them as filed: they may be incomplete or unverified, injuries are as alleged, and some details are withheld as confidential business information.
One crash, one row. A crash can get several reports, from updates or from more than one company (an operator and its fleet partner); we count it once, using NHTSA's own incident ID.
The rules changed in June 2025. NHTSA amended what must be reported and when, so counts before and after that month are not directly comparable.
Driver assistance is not here. Crashes with systems like Tesla Autopilot or GM Super Cruise in customers' cars are a separate NHTSA dataset with different rules. 15 reports filed in the self-driving file that name a driver-assistance system are left out.