I was driving my car on the freeway on cruise control, when there was a sudden/automatic violent break of 65 MPH to 0 MPH. There was no car in front of me, and there was nothing above my car (no direction sign, no bridge, no FASTRAK billboard, nothing). This was a "phantom break" and it was violent and sudden. Tesla needs to fix this!
2014 Tesla Model S: adaptive cruise control problems
6 of the 368 complaints about the 2014 Tesla Model S describe adaptive cruise control problems.
- owner complaints
- 6
- of this car's complaints
- 2%
- recalls
- 0
Is there a fix? No recall or service bulletin covers this area of the car yet.
Adaptive cruise control problems by model year
What owners say
My car has severe phantom breaking due to adaptive cruise control. When I use my Tesla's cruise control on the freeway, on a complete flat straight away that has no vehicle in front of me, no sign/bridge in front of me, and no items/object in front of me, my vehicle while randomly/violently slam on the break violently hurling me and all passengers in my vehicle forward. This is even more dangerous when there are vehicles being me in close proximity who could easily could have rear ended me all those times. I am forced to not use my cruise control due to these dangerous conditions.
This is a follow up to my last two complaints of sudden swerves that are probably causd by suspension failure. It is in my opinion highly probable that the suspension is likely to snap when brakes are suddenly slammed on hard at speed. This is known as Tesla "Phantom Braking" and you have hundreds of complaints about this on file. This situation is extremely dangerous. Not only might a Tesla that Phantom Brakes be run over by a following truck but if the suspension snaps it can cause the Tesla to veer into the oncoming lane with fatal results. As a precautionary measure I believe you should immediately ban Tesla adaptive cruise control and autopilot because these are the reason that phantom braking occurs. People are getting killed almost daily. Please stop this deadly experiment. Here is a near miss event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTk_T4olbws&lc=UgyIL5XI31XvUg7cg_F4AaABAg
When using Autopilot / TAC cruise control the vehicle sometimes applies the brakes for no reason.
Total loss of display in the middle console keeps going black, total loss of turn signals, suspension control, heater controls, de fog and de ice, no rear camera, no cruise control, high low beams,no ability to use fog lamps. Plus many more things too numerous to list. I took it to service dept and they did a temp fix for $150 but told me it will go out again and it did the very next morning. Something to do what's called the mcu memory failing. Its gone dark on several occasions many different dates. There is no way to know when it will do it again. Makes the vehicle in my estimation more likely to get into a crash
The entire screen went black and it started showing the backup camera. I couldn't fix it even by restarting it. Notifications included- center display unavailable, it also affected the turn signal while driving and cruise control. Other safety features of the vehicle were also unavailable.
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
Questions about the 2014 Tesla Model S adaptive cruise
Is adaptive cruise control problems a common problem on the 2014 Tesla Model S?
6 of 368 owner complaints about the 2014 Tesla Model S (2%) mention adaptive cruise control problems. The model year with the most reports is 2017.
Is there a recall or service bulletin for this on the 2014 Tesla Model S?
There is no recall or service bulletin for this area of the car on record.
Other symptoms on the 2014 Tesla Model S
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