DatabaseRecalls & investigations

Which investigations turn into recalls?

A federal investigation opens. Sometimes a recall follows. The link between the two is not published anywhere as a link — it has to be assembled from two separate datasets.

AV recalls on record
23
Filed as equipment recalls, which is why consumer lookups never show them
Vehicles affected
640,017
Summed across every AV recall, all operators
Investigation → recall links
14
Published nowhere as a pair — investigations and recalls share no common key
Median gap
99 days
From an investigation opening to the recall that followed

The chain

Each row is an investigation and the recall that followed it.

Every link below is marked likely: the investigation and the recall share an operator and sit close together in time. A confirmed link, which nothing here carries, has had the recall's defect narrative read against the investigation. A match on operator and timing alone will occasionally pair two unrelated events.

PE26003→26E059000likelyavride
Automated Driving System (ADS) conflict avoidance, driving behavior competence and assertiveness
105 days
PE26001→26E035000likelywaymo
Waymo AV striking a child in the area of a school.
135 days
PE26001→26E026000likelywaymo
Waymo AV striking a child in the area of a school.
92 days
PE25013→25E084000likelywaymo
Waymo AV drives around a stopped school bus
52 days
PE23014→24V035000likelytesla
Loss of steering control
178 days
PE24016→24E049000likelywaymo
Unexpected ADS behavior
28 days
PE23006→23V244000likelytesla
Front seat belt anchor detachment
12 days
PE23003→23V244000likelytesla
Steering Wheel Detachment
32 days
PE23018→23E086000likelycruise
Automated Driving System
22 days
PE22014→23E029000likelycruise
Automated Driving System (ADS)
112 days
PE21023→22V037000likelytesla
Tesla Passenger Play
37 days
PE21020→22V037000likelytesla
Autopilot & First Responder Scenes
167 days
EA22002→22E092000likelytesla
Autopilot System Driver Controls
146 days
PE16007→16E091000likelytesla
Automatic vehicle control systems
161 days

Every AV recall

These are equipment recalls — the vehicle recall lookup most people use cannot see them at all.

2026-08-1926E059000Avride223
2026-07-1026E044000Zoox105
2026-06-1326E035000Waymo3,871
2026-05-0126E026000Waymo3,791
2025-12-1925E090000Zoox332
2025-12-0825E084000Waymo3,067
2025-05-2225E037000Zoox270
2025-05-1225E034000Waymo1,212
2025-04-2525E029000Zoox270
2025-03-1425E019000Zoox258
2024-08-0924E067000Cruise1,194
2024-06-1024E049000Waymo672
2024-02-1324E013000Waymo444
2024-01-2224V035000Tesla199,575
2023-11-0723E086000Cruise950
2023-04-0523V244000Tesla38
2023-04-0323E029000Cruise300
2023-02-1523V085000Tesla362,758
2022-11-0122E092000Tesla53
2022-08-2922E072000Cruise80
2022-03-0422E016000Pony.ai3
2022-01-2722V037000Tesla53,822
2016-12-0616E091000Tesla6,729
No rows match this filter.
A dash is a recall filed with no vehicle count published, not a recall that affected none.
37 AV investigations stand on the record. The federal feed publishes no close date on any investigation, so an open one cannot be told from a closed one here — this is a count of investigations opened, not of investigations still running.