Tesla filed four new "Robotaxi" crash reports with NHTSA; the most revealing one, report 13781-15395, describes a remote operator driving the vehicle into a tree stump in Houston in May.
This is the third crash Tesla has reported involving a remote human operator causing the collision, and the first time Tesla has formally coded an incident as "remote operation" in an NHTSA filing.
The case highlights how driverless robotaxi fleets still rely on remote human intervention as a safety fallback, a dependency that bears directly on the operational risk and regulatory scrutiny facing Level 4 autonomous vehicle deployments.