Avride

Robot types: Robotaxi. Risk band: Elevated RobotRisk index 34.8/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 10 of 17 among Autonomous vehicles and trucking companies with incidents (141 tracked).

Analyst brief

NHTSA's opening of a probe following Texas crashes is the dominant event and establishes this as a regulator-driven record rather than a press-driven one. The malfunction entry, an animal strike that prompted a voluntary testing pause, is low in severity relative to the regulatory action. The two-entry record does not establish a repeating pattern; it reflects a single regulatory intervention with an ancillary operational incident.

Risk index

34.8/100RobotRisk index

36.1/100Median index across the 17 Autonomous vehicles and trucking companies with incident history (141 tracked, 124 with none)

10 of 17Rank in Autonomous vehicles and trucking (of 17 with incident history)

ElevatedRisk band

Products and robot types

Industries: Autonomous vehicles and trucking · Sectors: Ground Passenger Transportation

Risk is scored per product and robot type: each incident is attributed to the product it names, or to the company's matching robot type.

Robot type	Share of company risk	Rank within type
Robotaxi	100%	8 of 8

Product	Robot type	Status	Incidents	Index
Avride robotaxi & delivery robots	Robotaxi	early-access	2	34.8

Incident timeline

Comparisons over time

Per-type breakdown

Incident type	Unique incidents	Share
regulatory	1	50%
malfunction	1	50%

Unique incident list

2 unique incidents on file for this company.

Sev	Date	Type	Location	Incident	Source
S3	~May 2026	regulatory	TX, USA	NHTSA opens probe into Avride after Texas self-driving crashes · 37 cumulative logged accidents; formal NHTSA probe	Reuters
S1	~Apr 2026	malfunction	Austin, TX, USA	Avride autonomous vehicle strikes and kills a duck in Austin, prompting testing pause · 1 vehicle, animal fatality	KXAN