Tesla FSD Cuts Collision Rate 40% in First Year of Australia-New Zealand Operations

Tesla said its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system recorded a 40% lower collision rate than human driving over its first year in Australia and New Zealand, citing fleet data through Sept. 16, 2026. Vehicles on FSD drove 160 million kilometers, compared with 2.4 billion kilometers of human driving with active safety enabled. Under FSD, a collision occurred every 1.78 million kilometers, versus every 1.07 million kilometers for human driving. Automatic emergency braking improved 66%, hard braking fell 90%, hard acceleration dropped 86%, aggressive cornering declined 76%, and horn use fell 80%. Tesla cautioned that FSD remains a driver-supervised assistance system and the data should not be read as full replacement of human driving. The region launched on v13 and received the v14 end-to-end neural network this summer; v15 is expected by late 2026 or early 2027. A v14 Lite for HW3 vehicles is in development. FSD is now live in 14 countries, with Slovenia approving it this month.