Car was stopped at the top of a hill. Driver put the car in park and exited to talk to a security guard to raise a security barrier. Car began to roll down a hill and didn't stop until it hit a metal security gate 250 yards away. Car was totaled as result of collision with gate. No one was hurt. It would appear that the transmission/engine did not stay in park and began to roll and that none of the other safety features stopped the car. There were no passengers in the car at the time of the accident and no airbags went off.
2022 Ford Mustang Mach E driver assistance complaints
Page 2 of 2: complaints 11 to 25 of 25, newest first, as owners wrote them.
The contact owns a 2022 Ford Mustang Mach-E. The contact stated that while having the Blue Cruise system activated at approximately 70 MPH, the vehicle suddenly drifted to the right. The contact was able to straighten out the vehicle however, the vehicle drifted to the left and then to the right again. After a while, the contact was able to regain control of the vehicle by manually operating the steering wheel instead of using the Blue Cruise system to control the vehicle. The contact stated that shortly after regaining control of the vehicle, the failure recurred in the opposite direction going from left to right, and then to the left. There were no warning lights illuminated. The contact was able to maintain control. The dealer was contacted and was able to remotely pull the codes from the vehicle for diagnostic testing. The dealer diagnosed that the camera system and control modules had failed. The vehicle had not been repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The manufacturer referred the contact to the dealer for servicing. The failure mileage was 30,000.
The contact owns a 2022 Ford Mustang Mach-E. The contact stated while reversing(R) at approximately 2 MPH, the back-up camera image froze and then went black. The contact stated that the "Parking Assist" warning light illuminated and then a random game launched on the screen. The contact had taken the vehicle to a local dealer who was unable to duplicate the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 16,000.
I have had 14 incidents over two years where this vehicle suddenly, rapidly accelerates from slow speed, usually less than 15 mph, and six of those incidents had a near collision. Most of the incidents happen in a parking lot or drive-thru and require immediate fast braking to avoid collision. This sudden, unexpected acceleration has been widely discussed on the Mach-E Forum and there is general agreement the cause is inadvertent engaging cruise control by accidentally hitting an overly sensitive button on the steering wheel when the hands are in the 9 to 3 position. I have reviewed all related threads on the forum and counted 36 different owners who have experienced this same problem, most reporting near collisions and serious concerns for safety. Some posters have described possible remedies.
Ford is aware of these issues and I can't believe they are ignoring them and making me pray through them. My vehicle, since I purchased it, has had issues with the adaptive cruise, the accident avoidance gets disabled, lane assist stops working, and the final thing is that it registers that the camera is not working and must be serviced. the last thing that happened is that the car shut down its self driving in the middle of taking a turn on the highway and proceeded to drive me off the road. There was no braking or anything, when I reacted to stop it, I barely missed the guard rail and the car fought me to even turn the wheel. This has been documented with multiple dealerships. All of them have dealt with Ford's technicians remotely and have all failed at fixing my issues. Before it everything stopped working again, it went on and off for months as it did before... the failed completely. Because of this, my wife and I only transport our children in her vehicle out of concerns for our family's safety. Ford will try to say they won't replace my vehicle due to its current milage, but this was well documented and never fixed long before this. its been happening since 2,000 miles.
The contact owns a 2022 Ford Mustang Mach E. The contact stated while driving at an undisclosed speed with the Adaptive Cruise Control activated, the steering wheel jerked in the direction of oncoming traffic. The contact depressed the brake pedal and steered the vehicle back into the correct lane. The contact stated that the “Driver Assist Not Available” message was displayed. The contact stated that the message was displayed after the vehicle jerked and steered into the oncoming traffic. The contact stated that the failure had been reoccurring for approximately one year. The vehicle was taken to the dealer. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired by an independent mechanic or dealer. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 500.
While driving on I-40 East between Raleigh, NC and Benson, NC I was trying to use the Blue Cruise self driving feature on my Mache. The system is frightening to me because it tends to default towards the marker between lanes and requires more attention than so called hands free driving is supposed to need. However, in this situation, there was a stretch of the highway where the lane markers were half white and then half black stripes. When I hit that stretch the car veered over the lane markers into the passing lane and if I hadn't resumed control, would have taken me completely into the other lane. The dash indicated that the system was in control of the car for the entire time. It had not disengaged at any point.
While driving on the freeway at about 65 mph through a gradual left bend in the road, with fully active SuperCruise (lane keeping, active cruise control) and fully hands off, the vehicle suddenly veered into the adjacent right lane. The vehicle moved into the adjacent lane at a high rate, and could have resulted in a heavy side impact to a vehicle driving in that lane (and potentially rippling into the lane to the right of that as well). Throughout the deviation, SuperCruise remained active without warning lamps or any inducement of driver takeover. I caught the malfunction and manually overpowered the steering to bring the vehicle back into the original driving lane. The vehicle has no active open recalls, and is operating with the latest firmware updates installed. The vehicle has not been inspected by dealer, manufacturer, or any other group for any relating issues.
Vehicle adaptive cruise control was set at 35mph in a 35mph speed zone as I approached a stop light I tapped the breaks which should have disengaged the cruise control but instead the vehicle speed accelerated. Warning light stated cruise control was disengaged with gray line through speed indicator. I stepped on the brakes hard and the vehicle did stop and accelerator stopped. At no time was my foot on the accelerator pedal as well floor mats were not touching the pedal. Outside vehicle was clean and camera unobstructed. This just started after update 4.2.5.
On 3 occasions in the past month I have been driving down the road and, without any action from me, cruise control has turned itself on, with a speed set above the speed limit. I noticed it because the car accelerated to reach the target speed (which was an unsafe speed). I immediately braked and turned off the cruise control. The first two times it happened, I was pretty sure I had not accidentally activated cruise control by touching the button on the steering wheel. The third time, I was on a straight stretch of highway and was 100% sure I had done nothing to activate cruise control I had not used cruise control at any point from the time I turned on the car until the time this happened. I was between 10 and 15 minutes into my trip when this occurred.
On at least 8 occasions the car unintentionally shifted into cruise control and accelerated immediately. This usually happened while driving under 30 mph and rapidly accelerated to a much higher speed, sometimes set as high as 70 mph. On 3 occasions this happened in a parking lot and 2 occasions in a bank drive thru with a vehicle only a few feet in front of me. Immediate emergency braking was required to avoid an accident with two very close calls within 1-3 feet of vehicle in front of me. This experience has been reported by numerous persons on the Mach E Forum (similarly complaining of near accidents) and the general conclusion is that the button that activates cruise control is both unnecessarily super sensitive and poorly located so that it is engaged by the lightest touch of your left palm, base of your left thumb, or another finger as you move it across the steering wheel. Please note that the form below does not allow for numerous occurrences.
The cruise control is activated by the slightest touch of the button. Running the heel of your hand over the button will activate it. The button acts like a screen touch rather than a button.
I am randomly receiving the errors: "Front Camera Fault" "Pre-Collision Assist Not Available" Also, my cruise control no longer works while this error is active. Error will clear itself after a few minutes, but will still pop up from time to time.
Power steering went out including 10+ error / fault codes displaying on the dash on the vehicle after planned having vehicle towed but was back to normal after a restart. Exiting the parking lot at a low speed power steering failed again resulting in a low speed crash. After having it towed to dealership they reviewed software on the vehicle seeing vehicle has has fault codes and module errors for 3+ months on their Ford telemetries cloud system showing module and system errors every other day. Dealership asked if I ever got notice via vehicle or app about these errors which I never received. Ford Legal was notified and said vehicle did have a possible Bluecruise recall and nothing wrong with vehicle without having a Ford Engineer viewing the vehicle. My dealership still said cloud system showed all these errors which didn't seem be an issue to ford. My insurance said they'd make repairs but if my dealership said vehicle isn't safe they recommenced fix what is needed which Ford said 0 issues.
I was pulling into my garage, steering with my left hand, making a slow, tight left turn from the drive way into the perpendicular garage. As the steering wheel turned, I believe my left palm hit the cruise control button and activated the adaptive cruise control. The vehicle suddenly accelerated toward the house without warning. I slammed on the brakes in response, tossing my wife forward and then back into her seat. When I looked at the dash immediately following the stop, the cruise control image was displayed showing the range keeping bars. There were two conditions present that should have prevented the cruise control from accelerating. First, the tight turn of the wheels to the left should have prevented acceleration and two, the house directly in front of the adaptive sensors should have said "HEY! There's a big object right in front of me, we should probably stop, not speed up!" A GIF video from my surveillance camera is attached to this report showing the incident.
VIN decoder
See the problems and recalls for an exact car
Buying a used 2022 Ford Mustang Mach E?
Check the exact car before you pay: accidents, salvage or flood titles, odometer readings and previous owners.
Check its history