False forward collision took place on May 24, 2023 at 6:18pm on Rt. 50 Arlington, VA in the following form: I was driving on my way home, while driving around 35mph (limit is 45mph), a car in front of was taking the left lane dedicated to turn left, which slowed down. I was going slow (35mph) and there was more than enough space between me and the car in front of me. At this point Tesla's forward collision gave me another false warning.
2023 Tesla Model Y driver assistance complaints
Page 16 of 19: complaints 431 to 460 of 549, newest first, as owners wrote them.
I bought this car on March 2023. The windshield blades won't stop running on auto. I kept it turned off, but when I engage the adaptive cruise control, it goes back on and I can't turn it off. I made a service request on May 10 and Tesla cancelled the appointment saying the issue was resolved because it was a software issue, not a hardward issue. I was advised that wait for over the air update. I have had 3 over the air updates and the issues continuous. This is no my first tesla and this was never a software problem with my previous car. I also have another tesla Y 2021 that doesn't have the problem either. I have contacted Tesla again and they don't have a solution. One of the main reason I keep buying teslas is because I have problems with my arms and need to use the adaptive cruise control with lane centring to easy my arm pain. It is a feature I bought and it has to work otherwise I don't want this car. what seems to be easy it is become a problem. I always happen to get disconnected when talking to people at tesla. They must really have phone problems.
Phantom Braking: On our trip from Billings, MT to Minneapolis and back, we experienced 13 hard phantom braking incidents on I94. The first 3 were extremely dangerous and anxiety-inducing. We were very fortunate we did not have following traffic or we likely would have caused a collision at high speed. After that, I used the cruise control sparingly and only when we did not have following drivers. Still, we were anxious whenever I engaged cruise control and every time the car braked hard for no apparent reason. I am well-aware that Tesla owners report this problem regularly to the NTSB, and I keep expecting the company or the Agency to do something about it. It will kill people. We would be grateful for some action here.
Vehicle at interstate speeds would periodically “phantom brake” on I-90 one a clear day with no other cars around. Experienced about 10 different phantom brake incidents betweeen Sioux Falls and rapid city
A two-month old Tesla model Y encountered phantom braking at least 12 times in 5 days while Autopilot was activated. All incidents happened in a 4000 miles round trip on I-5 in California, I-10 in Arizona, and I-10 in Texas. The vehicle underwent automatic braking without any prior prediction. As a result of these incidents, there was a potential risk of the rear vehicle colliding with my own vehicle, or the potential risk of neck injury. These incidents happened on 05/08/2023, 05/09/2023, 05/19/2023, 05/20/2023, and 05/21/2023.
Braking. Yes, can be inspected upon request. Phantom braking for no apparent reason occurred at least 12 times in each direction on a long-distance trip on 2- and 4-lane roads on May 15 & 17 and also a trip in April, both in Autopilot and TACC modes, with nothing but the open road ahead, very little traffic, although a couple times when nearing the top of a hill. Driving at 70 mph on 2-lane roads and 80 mph on 4-lane roads. Concern of being rear-ended if passing a vehicle so wait long time to return to driving lane. Fortunately in standard driving no one was following closely to cause concern. One time when I was passing a semi, when I was almost even with the cab. No contact with dealer or service center as they are 240 miles away from my home or inspection by others. Unknown if there were on-screen messages due to watching the road instead.
False forward collision warning incident took place on May 20, 2023 at 9:25pm on Alder Woods Dr. Fairfax, VA. The forward collision system mistake a legally parked on the street car for a moving car, and produced a false/phantom warning.
This incident took place on May 20, 2023 at Judicial Dr, Fairfax VA at 1:12pm. I was driving with my family, I changed from left lane to the right lane and the forward collision warning went off for no good reason: I didn't have any cars in front of me, or at my right hand side. Forward collision warning is producing false/phantom warnings.
Incidents of phantom braking: We took our brand new Tesla model Y on a road-trip from Saint Helena CA to Scottsdale AZ and back. We had several incidents of the car slamming on the brakes while in cruise control due to mistakes in recognizing an actual reason to brake. May 11, in Arizona on highway 60, single lane road, we were in the right lane heading east when a large white pickup approached in the left lane. Our car mistook the approaching vehicle as a potential collision and slammed the brakes. This occurred a second time with another approaching vehicle at which point we ceased using cruise control. May 17 return trip on highway 10 in the morning, as I was driving with cruise control on, two lane highway, I approached a swale in the road with a change in pavement color. Gray concrete color contrasted with the blacktop patches in the upslope of the swale and the car slammed on the brakes. Same day, same highway, I was in the left lane having passed a slower vehicle. There were two cars behind me, waiting to pass. I put on the right turn signal and began to move into the right lane. There were a series of white jersey barriers on either side of the road. The car mistook these as a potential collision, slammed on the brakes and pushed me back toward the left lane. I applied the accelerator and forced it back into the right lane, avoiding a collision with the cars behind me. May 18 driving north on highway 5, multi lane highway and as my wife was driving and crested a hill there was a wire hanging across the road. In the center of the wire was a camera or some other device. While the wire was at least 6 feet over us, the car mistook it for an obstruction and slammed on the brakes.
My vehicle has issues correctly identifying forward collisions. There are moments the car produces "phantom forward collision warnings" of objects or people not in the same lane (such as a pedestrian on a sidewalk or a car far outside of a safe stopping distance. However, there are other instances where I would expect a forward collision warning and receive none at all. This is exasperated by environmental factors and road conditions. "Tesla Vision" with camera-only detection seems to be highly unreliable based on the environmental factors (such as amount of daylight) or road conditions (speed bumps, construction areas, etc).
Tesla Model Y adaptive Cruise control was engaged while on an expressway; there were no cars in sight in front of me and very light traffic about 1000 feet behind me; the distance was set to 4 car lengths. I was steering from the travel lane to an exit lane, with feet off of the pedals. While steering from travel lane to exit lane, the adaptive cruise control suddenly braked, and the car reduced speed from 65 to 45 mph before I took over and applied the gas. The braking was sudden with no warning given.
The contact owns a 2023 Tesla Model Y. The contact stated that while driving 45 MPH with the cruise control feature activated, the vehicle inadvertently decelerated without the brake pedal being depressed. The contact corrected the failure by depressing the brake pedal. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacture was not notified of the failure. The failure was approximately 3,950.
Tesla purposely disabled sensors to warn when close to objects (curb, other vehicles, garage door opening & wall). I wasn’t informed that there will be no parking assist feature indefinitely when I spoke to sakes dept.Tesla says it is still developing cameras to replace sensors. I had a 2015 tesla, which had these warnings. Before that I had a2002 Jaguar with park sensors. It is not new. Because of lack of reliable sensors, I am afraid to use any of Tesla’s driver assistance features. I was told by service manager that sensors only “see” a few feet, while cameras can see infinitely. This is doubtful. But at this point, I have neither. In fact, when parking in tight places, “infinite” camera vision would be useless. Seeing that I’m inches away from an obstacle is useful.I have been told that when a car comes in for Tesla service and still has sensors, the sensors are removed without the owner’s knowledge.
Several consistent and repeating phantom braking instances on morning commute on 1-10 and hwy 90 between Tucson AZ and Sierra Vista Az daily.
This incident, which is a false forward collision warning, took place on May 10, 2023 at 8:56am ET on Route 50 at Arlington, VA: 1. I was travelling on Rt. 50 at the left lane 2. Due to morning traffic jam, I, and all the other cars, were moving way below the maximum speed limit 3. On my right, there was another car traveling below the speed line with left signal on 4. Other car didn't make make any lane changes, but its left turn signal kept blinking 5. While I was passing this car, I received a false warning from my Tesla Model Y performance model vehicle 6. Other car, didn't change lanes, it stayed in its own lane
On two separate trips on 5/5 and 5/7, multiple times the adaptive cruise control initiated a hard braking response for no reason. There were no cars, objects, animal, etc in front of me. Some of these incidents occurred when the road turned or there were rolling hills. However there were at lease two occasions where the road was straight and level. One of these times the hard braking incident almost caused a rear end collision with the person behind me. Additionally the lane keep assistance violently tried to over correct when the car couldn't determine where the road was during a slight turn.
While using Tesla's "traffic aware cruise control", the car rapidly slowed 3 times unexpectedly and harshly. Once going 35 mph following another car on a 2 lane road, then 2 times today while going 60 mph on a 2 lane highway. There was never any reason to slow down, and it would have caused an accident if another car had followed closely. This feature appears to be seriously malfunctioning under ideal operating conditions: during the day, not going into the sun, no glare, without rain.
Driving at 80mph with cruise control on in daylight, car suddenly for no reason braked hard, this occured 2 times hard and several other times enough to alert us while driving and take Cruise Control off by touching brake pedal Car went immidiately from 80mph to 60mph throwing us forward in our seats.
The Model Y with AutoPilot Plus and Autopark enabled lurched forward and crashed into a wall during parking. Just as important a concern is that the car never made a beep, chirp or any other indication or warning that it ever even realized it was driving into an obstacle. We are certain the collision would not have happened had Tesla not removed ultrasonic sensors from the car because the driver has driven many teslas and even owned a tesla before but all had USS sensors in them.
I was going to park in front of the store at the shopping mall. before I reached the parking spot car was not slowing down automatically after releasing the acceleration pedal. I decided to use the brake (which I rarely use because the car stops automatically when you release acceleration pedal) and I really don't remember how everything happened and I might accidentally step on the acceleration pedal instead of brake, but the car was not able to detect any obstacles or objects and I ended up braking heavy metal bench in front of the store and broke into the store. I ended up smashing entire front window and drove into the store as deep as 1.5 feet breaking the liquor boxes. After this heavy impact the airbags were not deployed. My concern is into two safety issue: Airbags not deploying and car safety sensors not functioning.
The Lane Departure Avoidance system fails to trigger consistently when crossing over the lane markings. In the rare instances when the system does trigger, neither of the 2 available modes: steering correction or alert, give a significant enough input to be made aware or correct the problem. Another issue is when the Lane Departure Avoidance system is triggered for an extended amount of time (~10s-ish or more when driving near the lane markings), the system is completely disabled for the powercycle of the car. Thus, this system is not just unreliable and useless when it does work, but also completely disabled after driving near the edge of the road for a little while without any way to re-enable it. Tesla service responded that they won't fix or correct this problem. There are no system failure notices displayed by the car. Vehicle has not been inspect by manufacturer or other.
On May 4, 2023 at 11:51am, at 602/Reston Pkwy in the area of Reston,VA Tesla Forward Collision Warning falsely engaged for a moving car in front of me at a legal speed, and having more than abundant distance between two cars. I requested a Tesla service appointment for the third time regarding faulty forward collision warning. I am attaching information about my trip captured at Tesla's mobile app at the Trip View section. Please let me know if I can provide more or detailed information. Best, regards.
I had taken my car to the Tesla Service center twice in the recent past for the same problem: My car is engaging forward collision warnings for the legally parked cars on the street. I had more than several incidents of the same problem. It creates a big safety situation by showing a moving car in front of me, and indicating that there will be a forward collision. This creates a lot of stress while driving the car, and so much confusion so that I need to give my attention to my surrounding to see where the (false) problem may be. I have reported similar incidents to the federal safety agency, I strongly believe you need to investigate this case thoroughly and issue a recall. I am providing a couple noted false incident with time steps to help your investigation. Please reach out if I can be of any assistance, I share my up to data contact information. Dr. [XXX] INFORMATION Redacted PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6).
Dear Sir/Madam, I was cruising on autopilot on the highway at close to 80-85MPH and the brakes were suddenly applied bringing down the speed to less than 60MPH. There were cars behind me within the same lane(fortunately at a safe distance) and there were no cars in front of me for at least a mile or either on the side. The hard brake being applied unexpectedly, even without cars or obstacles in the front or side lanes, felt very unusual on autopilot mode. I would like to get this checked as to what is causing this issue as a priority as it can pose to be a real hazard if this happens in a packed highway lane or if any other driver is driving the car unaware of the issue. Regards, [XXX] INFORMATION Redacted PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6).
I've experienced "phantom braking" about 5 times in the last 3 months, where the vehicle automatically braked aggressively when on Autopilot without another nearby object in front of it. Some of the cases are re-producible, especially going West on Route 66 near coordinate 38.84779147045726, -77.42673470607882, where there are overlapping bridges above the highway. The aggressive braking of my vehicle caused vehicles behind me to swerve. Also, I've experienced false forward collision warnings multiple times. The most re-producible one is going down a little hill and its bumps near 38.88456462883165, -77.49153173786168 going west. The others happened when going around a circle or semicircle curves, with cars parked on the side or another car farther ahead in the circle.
While driving down the freeway on 4/29/2023 my Tesla Model Y slammed the brakes on for seemingly no reason without warning. This incident occurred with auto pilot and auto steering engaged. The day was clear and road was clear.
When I use the autopilot system. The car applied automatic emergency braking abruptly even there is nothing in the front. This could result in the rear end accident. I recorded a video since it kept applying AEB. But your system does not let me upload it.
Phantom breaking when adaptive cruise control is on. Manufacturer refuses to help and promises a software fix is on the way. No way to use cruise control without adaptive cruise control, so no way to use cruise control safely. I was pulled over today after the car decided to brake check a sheriff deputy. Lane departure warning activates for no apparent reason. Does not go away when the feature is disabled. Actively corrects for the non existent lane departure; came inches from crashing several times in 8,000mi. Tesla suggests I use an alternate route because this one is "too rough". It's an interstate. Forward collision warning activates for no apparent reason despite being set to off. Does not actively brake but it does make a startling chime.
Tesla abruptly reduced speed by as much as 30 mph while using cruise control in various scenerios. @ lanes highway with oncoming traffic, divided highways with no traffic or obstacles nearby. It happened at least 6 different times while on a 1400 mile trip. There were no warnings issued in any of the occurances. I discontinued using cruise control because of this issue. I have an appointment to take the Tesla in on May 5, 2023 to correct the problem, but after researching this issue, I now know this is an ongoing problem At 2 of the supercharger stations we stopped at, 2 other Tesla drivers asked me if I had this issue, because they were experiencing it also.
This is the problem know in Tesla world as "phantom braking." This happens to me frequently. I am driving on a clear road, no obstacles, and the car will brake hard for no clear reason. At best this is annoying. But there are times when it is extremely dangerous. This happens on highways and interstates at highway speeds. Drivers behind me are forced to brake hard to avoid a rear-end collision.
VIN decoder
See the problems and recalls for an exact car
Buying a used 2023 Tesla Model Y?
Check the exact car before you pay: accidents, salvage or flood titles, odometer readings and previous owners.
Check its history