Robot types: Robotaxi. Risk band: Elevated
RobotRisk index 36.1/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 9 of 17 among Autonomous vehicles and trucking companies with incidents (141 tracked).
Analyst brief
The record contains four entries spanning October 2021 to May 2022: a 2021 crash into a road center divider and traffic sign in Fremont (severity 2), a December 2021 California DMV suspension of its driverless testing permit (severity 3), the March 2022 NHTSA recall, the first-ever recall of an automated driving system (severity 3), and a May 2022 California DMV revocation of its autonomous testing permit (severity 3). The dominant entries are regulator-driven actions, three of the four, with only one press-reported crash event, indicating a record built primarily on sustained regulatory scrutiny rather than a series of physical incidents. The trajectory over roughly seven months moves from a crash through escalating state-level suspension and revocation actions alongside a federal recall. Pony.AI's index of 40.3 ranks 6 of 15 companies in AV trucking with incident history.
Risk index
36.1/100RobotRisk index
36.1/100Median index across the 17 Autonomous vehicles and trucking companies with incident history (141 tracked, 124 with none)
9 of 17Rank in Autonomous vehicles and trucking (of 17 with incident history)