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Self-Driving and Driver-Assist Recall Data

Name: Self-driving and driver-assistance recalls filed with NHTSA, one row per recall
Creator: Driverless Daily
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Every NHTSA safety recall involving a self-driving or driver-assistance system, one row per recall, as a CSV you are free to use, copy and publish under CC-BY-4.0 with a credit. It is the table behind the recall tracker.

Download

/recalls/recalls.csv

104 recalls, 2014 to 2026. Updated November 10, 2026; refreshed weekly. Any origin may fetch it.

curl -sL "https://driverlessdaily.com/recalls/recalls.csv" -o av-recalls.csv

How it is made

From NHTSA's file of every recall since 2010, which has one row per make, model, year and component.
A row is kept when its component is an automated driving or driver-assistance system: automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, lane keeping, driver monitoring, forward collision warning and the other systems NHTSA files under “ADAS”.
The warning sound electric cars must make for pedestrians is filed under collision-avoidance warnings and is left out. Two self-driving recalls NHTSA filed under steering are added by their recall numbers.
A recall's rows are merged into one: every system it names, the vehicles in one line, and the largest count of units NHTSA gives for it.
Company names are merged across their spellings (“Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC” with or without a full stop).
The defect, consequence and remedy text is NHTSA's own summary. “Mentions over the air” is set when the remedy says so; it is not a separate NHTSA field.

Columns

Column	What it holds
`campaign_number`	NHTSA's recall number; look it up at nhtsa.gov/recalls.
`company`	The company that filed the recall, as a short key.
`company_name`	The same company's name, with spelling variants merged.
`manufacturer`	The filer's name as NHTSA lists it.
`primary_system`	The main system recalled: automated_driving, emergency_braking, adaptive_cruise, lane_keeping, driver_monitoring, collision_warning or other_assist.
`systems`	Every system the recall names, separated by \|.
`components`	NHTSA's component names for the recall, separated by \|.
`vehicles`	The makes, models and model years recalled, in one line.
`record_type`	V for vehicles, E for equipment (how the robotaxi companies file their software).
`units_affected`	NHTSA's potential number of vehicles or units affected.
`report_received`	The date NHTSA received the company's defect report (Y-m-d).
`owners_notified`	The date owners were notified, when given.
`initiated_by`	MFR when the company opened it; ODI or OVSC when an NHTSA office did.
`mentions_over_the_air`	true when the remedy mentions an over-the-air software update.
`do_not_drive`	true when NHTSA advised owners not to drive the vehicle.
`park_outside`	true when NHTSA advised owners to park outside.
`defect`	NHTSA's summary of the defect.
`consequence`	NHTSA's summary of what it can lead to.
`remedy`	NHTSA's summary of the fix.
`license`	CC-BY-4.0 for this cleaned table; NHTSA's own files are public domain.

Credit

The cleaned table is licensed under CC-BY-4.0. Credit it as “Driverless Daily recall tracker (https://driverlessdaily.com/recalls), from NHTSA recall data”. NHTSA's own files are U.S. government works in the public domain.

How to read these recalls

A recall is a fix, not a crash. It says a defect could make a system behave unsafely and how the company will fix it. Many are found in testing or by the company's own monitoring before anyone is hurt.
More recalls do not mean a less safe company. A company that sells millions of cars, or reports problems promptly, files more recalls. Nothing here is divided by fleet size or miles.
“Vehicles affected” is NHTSA's potential count. It is the number of vehicles that might have the defect, not the number that failed, and the same car can appear in more than one recall. A software fix sent over the air reaches cars without a trip to the dealer.
Robotaxi software is filed as equipment. Companies that run driverless fleets file their self-driving software recalls as equipment recalls; the count affected is the fleet.
What is included. Recalls since 2010 whose NHTSA component is an automated driving or driver-assistance system: automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, lane keeping, driver monitoring and forward collision warning. The sound electric cars must make for pedestrians is filed under the same heading and is left out; two self-driving recalls filed under steering are added by number.