Here is a new youtube video in which the owner pranks passengers using autopilot. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uml4pml22pm this is meant to be funny. I doubt that the other road users or indeed the passengers would have found it so amusing if they had known that their lives were being placed in danger. It is impossible to prevent owners fro doing stupid things like this especially when they have been told that the autopilot is twice as safe as a human driver. I intend to report this case to the highway patrol and have preserved the video as evidence. Please halt this experiment immediately
2016 Tesla Model S acceleration complaints
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Must we wait for more deaths before the tesla autopilot is banned? Here is a new video from russia? Showing the driver placing lives in danger. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm_5oeidd_e here is a video showing the death of a young man in china and the effect this tragedy has on his family. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rsiek9afug the victim was an intelligent and successful man who was using the autopilot in just the way that it has been marketed as being capable. Lives are at risk all over the world and tesla has been slow to come forward with reports of crashes. Please stop this experiment immediately.
Here is another complaint about the tesla autopilot to draw attention to the way in which owners are behaving in real life. The proposed upgrades to the autopilot will do nothing to prevent the behavior shown in this video. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeu5ol2ir4m in common with the self-reported behavior of owners on the forums, drivers are driving hands free except for giving the wheel a gentle tweak just often enough to prevent the hold wheel nag. 90% of the time it is hands free. The system does guard against the driver having totally fallen asleep but it does not cause him to keep hands on the wheel at all times to ensure safe control of the vehicle. If there is any malfunction of the autopilot or a mechanical failure or blown tire this hands free driving can kill in an instant. I am not trying to be a know all. I am trying to counter the false confidence that has been created in the autopilot and the unwillingness of tesla owners to desist from hands free driving.
This is yet another complaint about the autopilot. Please watch this video in full. It shows how an intelligent and well educated driver chooses to use the autopilot without having any idea that he is placing his own life and that of other road users in extreme danger. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55a7nzxvtrq he chooses to drive with one hand near the wheel because actually placing hands on the wheel causes too many disconnections of the autopilot. He thinks he will have time to take over control if something goes wrong. He passes inches away from oncoming traffic on undivided roads with a combined speed of greater than 200 km/h. Even after the recent fatal accident caused by autopilot owners have been told by elon musk that autopilot is safer than human drivers. This is simply untrue. Other road users did not give permission for their lives to be placed at risk by a three ton car being driven towards them hands free. The driver in this video is not to be blamed for believing that it is safe to drive in this fashion. Tesla is to blame for exaggerating the capabilities and the safety of the autopilot. This autopilot has been released all over the world. It is constantly being altered by software updates. None of the cars that have had autopilot enabled over the air have been put through testing to ensure that all sensors and other hardware is working correctly. Please stop this experiment before more people are killed.
Here is another complaint about the tesla autopilot. Here is a recently uploaded video of a tesla employee giving a customer a test drive and demonstration of autopilot. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbcx2o-otso the demonstrator is only playing lip-service to the requirement that drivers should keep hands on the wheel. He assures the driver that the autopilot is perfectly safe and allows him to take his hands off the wheel and drive while distracted. He even reaches over and puts his hands through the spokes of the steering wheel to perform an automatic lane change without even glancing in the mirror. If this is the kind of instruction being given to new owners then the situation will only get worse when the new owner becomes overconfident in the system and perhaps instructs his partner or other people to have a go at letting autopilot take care of everything. The problem is not just that the system is flawed but that the way it is being pitched to customers is reckless in the extreme. Please stop this experiment immediately.
This a complaint about the tesla autopilot. This video has just been uploaded. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcc7jh8ux-e here is an owner driving hands free at high speed while waving his arms around and even crossing his arms across his chest. The irresponsible marketing and promotion of the tesla autopilot has encouraged this kind of behavior. Whilst an inquiry into the autopilot is still in progress tesla is planning to roll out yet another version beta release. I believe that is another attempt to shift the goal-posts and sidestep the inquiry. The prudent thing would be to disable the autopilot until it is proven to be safe.
This is another complain about the tesla autopilot made in the interest of public safety. Here is a new youtube video showing a driver in mexico driving hands free on curving undivided roads and passing oncoming traffic just inches away. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nb_eu43o1y "usando el autopilot de tesla en carreteras secundarias" the driver is obviously unaware of how dangerous this practice is. The car permits him to do this. There do not appear to be any hold steering wheel nags. A large number of owners have gained the perception that this is a true fail-safe autopilot rather than a beta release. Please halt this out of control experiment before more lives are lost.
While accelerating at a freeway on-ramp from a stand still, the accelerator peddle snapped off at full throttle. No accident occurred, was able to get off the freeway safely by pressing on the remaining peddle with hand.
Here is a report of a crash that occurred in germany. Http://teslaclubsweden.se/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5024 the owner is uncertain of the exact sequence of events and is not sure if he was on autopilot or not. He credits the tesla with saving his life but does not concede that the crash might have been caused by a vehicle fault. The rollover and crash may have been partially the fault of the truck driver but the reports are ambiguous. Both front and rear wheels have been torn off the car which may have been the result of the crash but bearing in mind the large number of crashes in which tesla wheels have snapped off it may be that this was actually the cause of the accident. Tires should not peel off the rim even during a high speed spin. Wheels and suspension assemblies should not snap off so easily. I would like the federal safety agency to contact the german investigators to alert them to the possibility of autopilot or mechanical failure being a factor in this crash. I am not a tesla owner. I am a concerned citizen that has to share the roads with tesla autopilot controlled vehicles and I believe that lives of road users are being put at risk by this unregulated experiment.
Here is a recent youtube video showing what appears to be a tesla employee demonstrating the use of autopilot and encouraging the driver to take his hands off the wheel. This is utterly irresponsible. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jptyoykotps
While test driving a model s at a tesla store, sales rep told me to remove my hands from the steering wheel while on auto pilot. Car suddenly swerved to the right at highway speeds causing the car to leave the regular lane I was traveling in. The tesla rep instructed me that I did not have to keep my hands on the wheel which left me unprepared for the sudden swerve. Name/address are left this complaint off due to concern about the retaliatory nature of the tesla ceo. Tesla ceo's overly defensivebehavior has a chilling affect on reporting issues.
Unintended acceleration occurred on 2 separate occasions with 2 different drivers within 2 weeks. Model s 70d incident 1: my wife was at a stop sign. She removed her foot from the brake and before applying the accelerator the car surged forward aggressively. Since her foot never touched the accelerator she was able to apply the brake and stop within 8-10 feet. She was visibly shaken when she got home but, regrettably, no report was filed. Incident 2: about 2 weeks later, may 6, I was pulling into my garage with my wife and baby in the vehicle. 2-3 feet from the the garage wall (in creep mode) I gently touched the brake to come to a stop. At that point the car surged forward very aggressively. I immediately applied heavy brake and was able to stop the car in a few feet (since my foot was already over the brake pedal). The front end hit the garage wall and penetrated 10-12 inches causing drywall damage and significant damage to our powder room on the other side. A report with tesla was filed immediately. Logs were dowloaded and show that the accelerator was depressed to 97% power in less than a second and that it was driver error. My wife and I have a combined 48 years of accident free driving and neither of us have ever mistaken control pedals or have ever floored a gas pedal in a second. My wife is 37, healthy and a physician, I am a healthy 42 year old pilot. We can both say with 100% certainty that neither incident was driver error. Tesla has a serious unintended acceleration problem also made evident by the other complaints filed on the federal safety agency, all of which seem to fall under similar operating parameters. We now have a $90,000 car sitting in our garage that is unsafe for my family, it seems tesla is going the route of waiting for injury and deaths to occur before they acknowledge this safety defect.
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