Tesla Launches New Safety Hub Explaining Why Its Vehicles Are Safer

Tesla has officially launched a revamped Safety page on its website, designed to provide a detailed overview of how its vehicles protect not just the people inside them, but everyone - and everything - outside.

The new hub consolidates years of crash-testing data, active-safety features, statistics, and diagrams into a single, easily understandable webpage. It sits alongside the recently launched FSD Safety hub as another means to easily convey safety information to customers and potential customers.

Occupants, Road Users, & Wildlife

In a post on X announcing the new page, Tesla highlighted a specific triad of protection:

New Safety page on our website has an overview of how your Tesla protects everyone – occupants, other road users & wildlife alikehttps://t.co/pmekvoecrF pic.twitter.com/2RM0SD0KEV

— Tesla (@Tesla) December 19, 2025

While occupants and road users (such as pedestrians and cyclists) are standard metrics for safety organizations, the explicit inclusion of wildlife is something rather new. It highlights the capabilities of Tesla’s active safety systems based on vision to classify and react to animals - whether it be a small dog or a large deer - often faster than a human driver can at night.

The site is a deep dive into Tesla’s safety-first philosophy, breaking down the technology into key pillars.

The Hardware

The section on Passive Safety details the physical engineering that’s designed to protect occupants during a crash. Central to this is the way that each and every Tesla is built - the floor-mounted battery pack that lowers the vehicle’s center of gravity, significantly reducing the risk of rollovers.

Without an internal combustion engine in the front, Tesla vehicles also feature large crumple zones that absorb impact energy effectively, all before it reaches the cabin. The page also highlights the patented side sill structures that help absorb energy, protecting both the occupants and the battery pack.

Alongside other features like advanced airbag systems like the far-side airbags, active venting, and camera-based seat-belt tightening, Tesla makes some of the safest vehicles in the world if you’re in an impact.

The Software

However, simply stepping into a Tesla statistically reduces your likelihood of getting into an accident. After all, the safest crash is no crash. Tesla’s Active Safety features are showcased as standard on all Teslas, emphasizing that safety is not an optional extra.

The software suite includes Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB), which Tesla continues to improve, can detect cars, pedestrians, or cyclists and reduce or mitigate impacts, and Lane Departure Avoidance to steer the car back if it drifts.

In combination with Obstacle-Aware Acceleration, a feature designed to automatically reduce motor torque when an obstacle is detected in front of the car at low speeds and Forward Collision Warnings (soon able to be disputed if you have Tesla Insurance), Tesla’s software is focused on making the entire experience as safe as possible for both occupants and other road users.

Other features, such as Dynamic Brake Lights that flash rapidly during sudden stops, help to warn other drivers of a potential incident. Park Assist, Blind Spot Monitoring, Drowsiness Detection, and Autoshift help prevent accidents before they happen.

Safer Aftermath

Safety doesn’t stop suddenly when you’ve crashed. When you’re in a Tesla and a serious collision is detected, your hazard lights will automatically turn on, your doors will automatically unlock, and in certain regions, your vehicle will call 911 automatically and relay information to operators to get emergency services to you. We recently covered what to do in a Tesla if you’re in an accident.

Fire Safety

Addressing a common misconception and public concern, the page provides clear data showing that Tesla vehicles are approximately 10 times less likely to catch fire per mile driven than the average ICE vehicle.

Tesla explains the battery’s passive thermal protection system, which is designed to direct heat away from the cabin in the rare event of structural damage, reinforcing the argument that EV architecture is fundamentally safer regarding fire risk than vehicles carrying tanks of flammable fuel.

Real-World Data

Finally, Tesla also prominently displays their quarterly safety reports on the new Safety hub, which compares miles driven per accident with Autopilot (and FSD) against the US average. The latest data emphasizes that drivers using FSD (Supervised) experience collisions far less frequently than the national average for manually driven cars.

This data-driven approach aims to prove that Tesla’s technology is statistically safer than human drivers, turning safety from a promise into a real-life metric.