Separate from the audit into Tesla’s driverless Cybercab, federal safety regulators have kept an active investigation running into 2,882,566 Tesla vehicles, nearly 2.9 million cars, over complaints that the company’s Full Self-Driving software has repeatedly rolled through red lights and drifted into oncoming lanes. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened the probe, Preliminary Evaluation PE25012, on October 7, 2025, according to the agency’s own investigation resume, and it covers every Tesla equipped with FSD Beta or FSD Supervised software still on the road.

What NHTSA Says Its Own Data Shows

The agency’s filing lays out two dominant failure patterns pulled from owner complaints, Standing General Order crash reports, and media accounts: vehicles running red lights and vehicles crossing into opposing traffic. NHTSA’s resume documents 58 incidents tied to the two behaviors, including 14 crashes and 23 injuries, with 18 separate complaints describing cars proceeding through red signals, in some cases “after coming to a complete stop” before rolling forward again, a detail investigators flagged as pointing to a decision-making flaw in the software rather than a simple camera or sensor glitch. Another 18 complaints, plus several Standing General Order reports, describe FSD-equipped Teslas crossing double-yellow lines or attempting turns into the wrong lane entirely.

CBS News reported the probe covers close to 2.9 million vehicles built across Tesla’s current lineup, making it one of the largest active federal safety inquiries into any single piece of automotive software on the road today. The investigation remains open, with no recall ordered and no closure filed as of this writing, according to NHTSA’s public case tracker.

Why This One Is Different From The Cybercab Story

This probe has nothing to do with Tesla’s driverless Cybercab robotaxi, which is the subject of a separate, newly opened NHTSA audit into how that specific vehicle was certified without a steering wheel. PE25012 instead targets the driver-assistance software running in ordinary, human-driven Tesla sedans and SUVs already in driveways nationwide, the kind of system millions of owners already treat as a daily commuting tool. That distinction matters for anyone behind the wheel of one of the eligible vehicles: this is existing software already sold and already active, not a future product still in testing.

Key Points

• NHTSA’s PE25012 investigation covers 2,882,566 Tesla vehicles running FSD Beta or FSD Supervised software.
• Regulators cite 58 documented incidents, including 14 crashes and 23 injuries, tied to red-light violations and wrong-way driving.
• Some vehicles allegedly rolled through intersections even after coming to a full stop first.
• The probe is separate from NHTSA’s newer audit into the Cybercab’s lack of manual controls.

What Owners Should Do

• Check whether your specific Tesla and software version falls under the FSD Beta or FSD Supervised umbrella named in the investigation.
• Report any red-light or lane-departure incidents to NHTSA directly through the agency’s complaint process, which feeds directly into open investigations like this one.
• Continue treating FSD as a supervised system that requires full driver attention at intersections, regardless of what the marketing name implies.