[Regulatory filing] Electrek long-form piece reviews Tesla July driver-assistance crash reports hitting a single-month record high Summary: Elect…
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🔴 [Regulatory filing] Electrek long-form piece reviews Tesla July driver-assistance crash reports hitting a single-month record high
Summary: Electrek's long-form piece says Tesla submitted 236 driver-assistance-related crash reports to NHTSA in July, 2026, the highest for a single month, of which 4 were fatal; the article compares reports with some fields redacted against public reports one by one.
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July, 2026 Tesla reported 236 driver-assistance crashes to federal regulators, its most in a single month; 4 of them caused deaths. Tesla's monthly report count rose from 135 in March to 207 in May and 209 in June.
Under the 2021 NHTSA standing general order, automakers must report crashes in which L2 driver assistance was engaged within 30 seconds before the collision. The article says that in all 4 of these reports Tesla marked "Verified Engaged," meaning connected-car data confirmed the system was on, while three fields were redacted: the crash narrative, the software version, and whether the road was within the system's approved operating area.
The article lists four crashes: July 12 Upper Marlboro, Maryland, where a Model 3 turned left without yielding to a straight-traveling motorcycle, killing 3 people, with the report recording a left-turn speed of 20 mph and driver assistance confirmed engaged; July 15 San Mateo, California, where a 2016 Model S ran off the road, hit a light pole and caught fire, killing the driver, with the report recording a speed of 52 mph; July 22 Ione, California, where a Tesla crossed into oncoming lanes, first sideswiped a Honda and then collided head-on with a Cadillac, killing the Tesla driver and sending a 2-year-old child in the car to the hospital, with the report recording a brand-new 2026 Model Y, confirmed engaged, at 54 mph; July 20 Ashby, Minnesota, where in an I-94 construction zone a westbound Ford and an eastbound Tesla collided, a third vehicle then struck them, and the Tesla driver and the Ford driver died, with the report recording the system engaged at 50 mph.
None of these 4 crashes were publicly reported as involving Autopilot or FSD; the outside world can link them to driver-assistance systems only because Tesla is required to submit reports and then redacts public information.
Tesla's reports list only one "highest injury severity": Upper Marlboro 3 deaths and Ashby 2 deaths, but each records only 1 death, and the article says public information shows aggregate statistics based on that data are understated; the article also says Tesla redacts the crash narrative in 100% of all its current reports, versus 0% for GM's Super Cruise.
[Media report] Tesla owner's manual shows Grok text messaging feature entry Summary: Not a Tesla App reports that the Tesla Model Y owner's manua…
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🔴 [Media report] Tesla owner's manual shows Grok text messaging feature entry
Summary: Not a Tesla App reports that the Tesla Model Y owner's manual has added instructions for Grok sending text messages, but the feature is not yet live, and the rollout time has not been announced.
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Tesla's official Model Y owner's manual has added an item to the capability list of the Grok "Assistant" persona: "Text messaging: Ask Grok to send a text message to a contact or phone number, for example, 'Text Mom to say I'm on my way.'"
The capabilities currently listed for Grok in the manual include: navigation search and adding/removing waypoints, making phone calls, media search and playback, control panel settings search, vehicle controls (climate temperature, seat heating and ventilation, steering wheel heating, glovebox), and vehicle question answering based on the owner's manual.
Grok currently supports making phone calls, but text messaging is not currently supported.
The article outlines the timeline of Grok coming to the car: first launched in version 2025.26, initially limited to the United States, then expanded to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and recently expanded to all of Europe and multiple Asian countries; since then, navigation support and location-based reminders were added successively, and vehicle controls were added this summer.
Tesla is also advancing Grok Bot integration, connecting the cabin with external AI agents; Musk previously confirmed that Grok will control FSD (Supervised) in a future update.
The launch time for Grok's text messaging feature has not been announced, but the feature has been written into the user manual, and a subsequent OTA update may activate it.
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Source: Not a Tesla App · 09-13 03:00 (Beijing time)