Using either cruise control or Full Self Driving mode, driving on divided highway, experienced sudden hard braking not due to any highway obstruction, road hazard, other vehicle, or weather. Without warning car dropped out of assisted control and abruptly applied brakes. This happened yesterday at 2:10 pm, 2:53 pm and 3:01 pm.
2020 Tesla Model 3 brakes complaints
Page 3 of 3: complaints 41 to 48 of 48, newest first, as owners wrote them.
I was driving straight on a highway using traffic aware cruise control when the car suddenly braked hard. If someone had been driving behind me too closely I would have been rear ended at a high speed. I've seen online that people refer to this as "phantom braking," and it seems to be a common issue with tesla cars.
Slowed down to make a left turn and the car suddenly speed forward when I put my foot on the brake. I let go my foot and slammed the brake once more. It took a second to respond
See attached for details. We have experienced at least two unexpected hard braking incidents in our 2020 tesla model 3 equipped with autopilot. In one incident, just as autopilot was engaged, the tesla braked suddenly from 65 MPH to 50 MPH. Other drivers were forced to brake hard to avoid collision. On the same day, while in adaptive cruise control, the tesla suddenly braked hard at a speed of 78 MPH, down to 60 MPH. Tesla has been notified by others who have had similar experiences, so they are aware of this hazardous problem. The issue has been reported by many on tesla social media sites since at least 2018. It still has not been corrected. I plan to send a copy of this report to tesla.
When I slowed down on a city street, and turned into a parking lot, the car speeded up by itself. And the brake didn't respond when I stepped on it. The car glided into a power post.
When on cruise control or autopilot, car stops abruptly going from 65 MPH on the highway to 38 MPH before I can override and take control. There is no apparent reason. This happens on a clear open highway.
So regarding the car brakes they are very hard to fully depress and I believe its because of the regenerative braking. For example when going eat highway speed and you need to press the break pedal hard it literally feels like the car is refusing to let you use the full capacity of the breaks. Its very scary it happened to me and I could not press the break pedal completely down. And regarding the lights my car has fog lights installed but I'm unable to turn them on because according to tesla supposedly I did not pay for them but they are installed on the car and they don't want to allow me to turn them on because its controlled via software. This is an unnecessary thing because if they are installed on the car I should have access to them because I bought the car. This could put us the drivers in a hazardous condition in fog or other low visibly conditions unnecessarily.
While navigating on autopilot on the freeway the car took the intended exit ramp, however never slowed down until I had to intervene. Reminiscent of the characteristics which LED to the recent fatal crash reported over the last week.
VIN decoder
See the problems and recalls for an exact car
Buying a used 2020 Tesla Model 3?
Check the exact car before you pay: accidents, salvage or flood titles, odometer readings and previous owners.
Check its history