2016 Tesla Model X: sudden unintended acceleration

Filed May 5, 2025 · Airbags, Driver assistance · GA · crash · 2 injuries

Was stopped at a red light behind the car in front of me. I was stopped at a appropriate distance from the car in front of me. I had my right foot on the brake pedal, when the car accelerated on its own. It launched its self into the car ahead of me. I looked down and my foot was still on the brake pedal. None of the air bags inside the car deployed.

Filed Sep 21, 2022 · Acceleration, Airbags · FL · crash

On Tuesday September 13th 2022 morning around 10.55am EST, I had entered the Hindu temple of Florida premises driving my TESLA model X. I slowly progressed towards the parking spot and made a slow right turn to park the car. At that time the Tesla suddenly accelerated at full speed, took off like a rocket, jumped the curb, knocked down a sign post and jumped into the ditch which leads into a pond. The car veered to the right, jumped out of the ditch back toward the parking spots, hit two vehicles ( a Honda CRV and a Lexus) with a significant force and hit a tree with a big impact and finally stopped. Surprisingly airbags did not deploy. I was wearing the seat belt and was the only one inside the vehicle. Fortunately with gods grace I escaped with minimal injuries. I get nightmares every day since then thinking about how close to death I was. Had the gone gone straight into the pond, I could have drown to death inside the vehicle, had it gone in a different direction and hit those concrete walls of the temple, I could have been crushed. More significant was it did not run over any of the visitors who frequent thaw temple! This sudden unintended acceleration not only shocked me but also shocked several people who were witness to this crazy event. The CCTV footage I obtained shows the car going towards the parking spot and caught the initial acceleration and take off and the big thuds twice that ensue within a few seconds. I have heard Tesla cars were involved in certain freak accidents but never imagined that I could be part of one. I’m uploading a few photos, a video clip and a cctv footage clip for your review. I read reports that Tesla blamed these type of unintended acceleration on driver errors pressing the gas pedal! I’m in total disbelief how in the USA with so many safety standards and accountability, that this can continue to happen. ~ [XXX] INFORMATION Redacted PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6).

Filed May 12, 2021 · Acceleration · 25,628 miles · DC · crash

Tl* the contact owned a 2016 tesla model x. The contact stated that after stopping and pressing the brake pedal, the vehicle suddenly experienced unintended acceleration and drove forward causing the driver to loose control of the vehicle and drive through a bush and drive off a retaining wall and ended up crashing into a car. During the incident the air bags deployed and the vehicle was destroyed. No injuries were reported. No police report was taken. The local tesla service center located at 52 derwood cir, rockville, md 20850 was notified of the incident. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was 25,628. The consumer stated the local dealer escalated the complaint to tesla hq and tesla couldn't download the data at the time of the incident.

Filed Feb 2, 2020 · Acceleration, Body · 6,000 miles · CA · crash

Sudden unintended acceleration. The car suddenly accelerated instead of stopping when I applied the brakes while pulling into a parking space. I was going approximately 5 MPH. Instead of stopping, the car jumped a concrete parking block, went over a curb, climbed an embankment, and struck a tree before it came to a stop. The car suffered damage to the front driver's side wheel well and the undercarriage. The driver was not injured and the airbags did not deploy. Video surveillance captured the incident in its entirety. Photos of the scene and the resulting damage to the car are also attached. This incident occurred during a routine trip that I drive about 4 times each week. Weather, traffic, and road conditions were not a factor in this incident. The car does not contain any aftermarket equipment.

Filed Jan 25, 2020 · Body, Driver assistance · 36,700 miles · TX · crash

On thursday, september 26, 2019, at 7:40 am, I was parking my car at work and my car went on full speed forward over the median and crashed, luckily no one was hurt. This happened in a split of a second and the vehicle's safety override break that should have prevented from going over an obstruction in front of the car did not engage as claimed by tesla. I requested an analysis of the car's recorded data to tesla and asked to provide me with a copy of the report for better understanding. After weeks of analysis, an employee from tesla called and informed that it was my fault as the gas paddle was fully engaged, I was astonished as I did not hit the gas paddle rather I just let my foot off the break to park my car slowly in the parking space and the car took off with speed as if I put full force to gas paddle. As for getting a copy of the report, he said that he will have to ask the engineers and let me know. It has been four months, and no one reached out to me about the report. Some people saw the whole incident and said that I reduced the speed of my car to park and suddenly it took off and went forward fast. At that moment, it felt like the car was controlled by someone else as pressing on a break was not stopping the car and finally, I had to press the park to stop it. I have been driving the car to my work and parking at the same parking lot every day for the last 3 years. My insurance totaled the car and provided the residual value, to this date I am without a car and trying to fix the damages of my car. I almost gave up but saw the news that I am not alone about tesla denying similar claims of hundreds of sudden acceleration crashes. Tesla have the data and I am requesting tesla to take full responsibility and compensate for my damage. I am requesting the federal safety agency to investigate and help bring closure to this matter.

Filed Jan 19, 2020 · Airbags, Body · 25,000 miles · WA · crash · 1 injury

On january 28, 2019 I backed out of my driveway in my 2016 tesla x, braked, stopped, put it in drive and barely, slowly started down my lane when the car suddenly accelerated at full speed down the lane. I tried the brake twice but it did nothing to slow the acceleration.approximately 75 yards down the lane the tesla entered the cross street below and clipped another car, demolished a large bank of mailboxes across the street, took briefly to the air several feet due to the hillside there, hit a large cedar tree, glanced off and finally stopped nose down, high sided on a large landscape boulder. But for the boulder, I would have continued down into the deep ravine behind the neighbor's house. The airbags had deployed during these events. I was taken to the hospital by ambulance and diagnosed with a t-12 spinal compression fracture, which is still painful a year later. The car was totaled. Police report and medical records available on request.

Filed Dec 19, 2019 · 35,000 miles · CA · crash

On 10/31/2019, my wife was waiting in line at a carwash. While waiting for the car in front of her to move out of the carwash tunnel, she had her foot fully pressed on the brake pedal and the 'hold' sign was showing on the instrument penal screen. Approximately 2 minutes later, she released the break paddle, but before she could press the gas peddle, the car suddenly moved forward by itself at almost full acceleration. My wife immediately attempted to stop the car by pressing the break pedal in full, the car slowed down, but did not fully stop and kept moving forward until it hit the car in front of it. Before and during the entire accident, sophie kept full humanly possible control over the car, but again, the car abruptly accelerated by itself and did not come to a full stop when break pedal was pressed. Fortunately there was no injury to anyone, but the front bumper of the car is dented.

Filed Aug 13, 2019 · Acceleration, Electrical · 5,000 miles · CA · crash

Here is a report and video of an out of control model x. Https://www.tunoticiapr.com/noticias-policiacas/1614660804--video-muestra-veh%c3%adculo-tesla-descontrolado-en-mayag%c3%bcez-a-punto-de-atropellar-a-una-persona- on saturday, august 10, 2019, a strange vehicular accident occurred on calle de la candelaria, former street mckinley, mayagez, in front of the bakery massa bakery. The driver of a tesla model x electric car was parking, when suddenly it sped up, initially impacting a pick-up bus. The impressive images show that the tesla vehicle was very close to causing injuries to a young woman who was getting off the white toyota tacoma on the passenger side. Then he was extremely close to running over a person on the opposite sidewalk. The march continued uncontrollably and in a circle, subsequently impacting a second vehicle. Clearly the driver is unable to stop the car. There is no sudden acceleration (which is often blamed on foot error). It was only luck that prevented loss of life. You have dozens of reports of unintended acceleration filed. Owners are adamant that this is a problem with the car not driver error. Please take action. ** please note - I am not the owner...this is a report made in the public interest. I have had to use the VIN of a car that is on a salvage auction site in order to satisfy your website requirements. This is not fraudulent as elon musk has claimed, it is just a way to overcome the deficiencies in your website that make it hard for concerned citizens to file a complaint especially if they are not us residents but are in a country where there are dangerous teslas loose on the roads. Thank you. Have a splendid day.

Filed Jul 9, 2019 · Acceleration · 1,000 miles · CA · crash · 1 injury

This is a complaint about the speed control in teslas. There has been a dis-proportionally high number of cases of unintended sudden acceleration and the fault has always been blamed upon driver error. Here is a report that proves the problem is an electronic design flaw and that tesla is deliberately covering up the problem. Https://www.autosafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/teslas-sudden-acceleration-log-data-what-it-shows.pdf snip ** - tesla's sudden acceleration log data ' what it shows by ronald a. Belt plymouth, mn 55447 1 may 2018 abstract: accelerator pedal sensor data from the log file of a tesla s sudden acceleration incident is provided, and a tesla circuit diagram is used to explain how the data is obtained from the two accelerator pedal position sensors. Examination of the data shows that the accelerator pedal sensor output increased to cause the sudden acceleration. But the increase in the accelerator pedal sensor output could not have been caused by the driver. Instead, the increase in the accelerator pedal sensor output appears to have been caused by a fault in the motor speed sensor, with which it shares a common+ 5v power and ground. This increase in pedal sensor output occurs without the driver pressing on the accelerator pedal. ** I am not a tesla owner but I am forced to share the road with them. Please investigate this matter urgently. I am not a us resident, a dummy address has been used to satisfy your website requirements. My true name and address are included with this submission. Date of incident and number of casualties are guestimates.

Filed Jul 7, 2017 · 10,256 miles · TX · crash · 2 injuries

My tesla model x 2016 accelerated on its own after I come to a complete stop at a parking lot, crashed into the front of a pediatrics building. 2 injuries. Airbag was inflated.

Filed Jul 5, 2017 · Suspension · 1,000 miles · CA · crash · 3 injuries

There has been a crash of a tesla model x in hong kong. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gka0mwysvhw the tesla is the only vehicle involved. The back wheel has fallen off and the car has crashed into a bus stand injuring several people. These cars have a problem with unintended acceleration and suspension failure. Please take action before more lives are lost.

Filed Feb 27, 2017 · Acceleration, Body · 1,400 miles · GA · crash · 1 injury

Takata recall I drove my tesla model x 2016 today to work and when I was about to park the car in the parking lot (around 6 miles per hour may be) it suddenly accelerated and hit the concrete wall and bounced back around 8 feet. Since it was for parking I can surely say that I did not accelerate the car. The steering air bags and knee air bags came off and also the passenger side knee air bags came off as well. I searched online and there seems to be a class action suite on this issue but tesla is not accepting it as the glitch in their software or some other component. I felt like the accelerator got pressed the way when the car was in cruise mode. Unless I wanted to hit the wall intentionally there was no need for me to press the accelerator to speed from almost zero to whatever the high speed it attained at the time of hitting the wall.