Tesla Model Y Complaints

4,325 consumer complaints on file.

#11450685February 6, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS
FSD, the design of FSD using the safety score is designed to defeat failure reporting to government agencies. If you allow the FSD system to drive on its own, it will crash, run into things, fail to stop, or stop at green lights constantly. What the driver score system does is force human beings to manage and mitigate its failures leaving a on paper result that the system is more safe than drivers driving on their own. This is 100% false, if you allow FSD to drive, it will fail almost 100% of the time in very quick succession. From lane change mistakes, to turning mistakes, not staying within its lane in a consistent manner, not putting the car into left turn lanes or stopping at green lights, which in itself is dangerous. The safety score system MUST be eliminated as it cherry picks those drivers willing to spend the time and energy to ANTICIPATE the failure/weakness of the software and mitigate its failure before it fails, thus providing the government with false "safety" numbers... Grab a car and drive it, it will not be long before it fails left and right!
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11450664February 6, 2022
SERVICE BRAKES, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
Phantom braking hard braking on freeway with no cars or objects around
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11450656February 6, 2022
SERVICE BRAKES, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
On February 1st, 2022 I was driving with my wife from the Naperville, IL area to Holland, MI. We were on I 94 headed east, approximately 20 miles west of Michigan City Indiana headed east. I was driving around 65 miles per hour. We were on a 4 lane highway- all the cars on those 4 lanes were headed in the same direction. There was a truck in front of us ( headed in the same direction ) that was located to the right of us in the lane to our right and it was about 60 or 70 feet in front of us. All of a sudden the car, that had been operating on Autopilot, braked suddenly. We went from 65 to almost 0 in a split second and if my wife and I weren't wearing seat belts we would have been very seriously injured. My neck suffered a whiplash and I'm still in pain several days later.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11450647February 6, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
While traveling at night on a 2-way highway at about 65-70mph my vehicle incorrectly thought every semi-truck I encountered was in my lane and would apply hard braking. This has happened 10+ times.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11450632February 6, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
When using cruise control on two lane secondary roads the brakes are activated when a large truck approaches from the opposite direction causing vehicles behind me to have to brake unnecessarily. The cruise control is virtually unusable when not on a limited access highway.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11450628February 6, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
I was driving on a 2 lane highway using cruise control and the car suddenly aggressively slowed down. I have owned the car since October 2021 and this is probably the 15th phantom breaking event that has occurred. Cruise control on this car is not trustworthy nor safe on a 2 lane non-divided highway.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11450528February 5, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
Phantom Braking constantly. Forward collision whole on Autopilot. Tried recalibrating the camera and the problems persist.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11450610February 5, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
While driving on a single lane road in Bismarck, ND in low light conditions the car did what we call phantom braking anytime a oncoming car would be approaching.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11450551February 5, 2022
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
When cruise control (called autopilot) is engaged, the car will slam on the brakes for no apparent reason, endangering everyone around us. Sometimes it happens as frequently as several times a minute. It is particularly bad on 2 lane roads when cresting hills and when trucks are in the opposite lane, but it’s not limited to those situations. When we took the car to the Tesla repair shop, they closed the ticket after informing us that it is a “known software issue” with no resolution currently. So the problem was not fixed, but the ticket was closed anyway.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11450541February 5, 2022
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
While driving in my car on a highway in cruise control, my car will break very hard for no reason. It’s as if it is detecting a car in front of us and it disengages cruise control very abruptly. It can be very scary especially if there are cars behind us. I no longer dare to use cruise control because it has happened multiple times. I have not discussed this issue with the dealer and there were no warnings in the car at the time.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11450539February 5, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
I am driving down the highway and the car brake checks hard 3 separate times one one occasions for no reason while using Auto Pilot.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11450535February 5, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
I commonly will experience phantom breaking driving on two-lane roads, particlualy when meeting oncoming traffic. This occurs most commonly at the crest of a hill or when meeting trucks. It occurs nearly 100% of the time when meeting trucks at the crest of a hill. There are also random occurrences on flat roads with no other vehicles and no shadows or bridges. It also occurs on bridges and occasionally with shadows. Performance has been better on four lane roads with more traffic. It's as if the system needs to have other traffic to gauge itself. With no traffic on four lane roads, phantom braking will rarely occur. There is no single date of this occurrence. It happens ALL THE TIME.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11450534February 5, 2022
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
I do not have full self driving on my car. However, the cameras installed are active when I use just normal cruise control. Trying to drive between the Minneapolis area to Pipestone, MN on Christmas day the car several times hit the brakes for me unexpectedly while in cruise control. We were on various roads, mostly at night, and with many times no seeable vehicles nearby. Other times it would be a vehicle coming at us in the proper lane next to us. I cannot use cruise control on this car for fear that a car will rear end me.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11450520February 5, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
Car consistently brakes unexpectedly when another large car is passing going the opposite direction. There have also been times they shadows cause the same result. I believe this is referred to as phantom braking and it makes the adaptive cruise control unusable and dangerous.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11450508February 4, 2022
SERVICE BRAKES, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
It's called phantom braking and it's absolutely dangerous. It happens when on auto pilot.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11450507February 4, 2022
SERVICE BRAKES, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
Tesla slams on brakes for no reason. Causes a safety hazard with cars behind me. Was almost hit when my model y applied the breaks for no reason.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11450499February 4, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
When using AutoPilot, the car will without any basis or immediate need brake most abruptly without any due cause, as there is no traffic or cars around it. It’s usually when passing over overpasses but not always. This sudden deceleration has almost caused accidents. Only me being wary and cognizant has saved the car from being rear ended. Sometimes there’s no cars around but it still can be very dangerous. This has been happening over almost a year and Tesla has not done anything to address this widespread issue.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11450498February 4, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
On many occasions the car slams on the brakes when there is no reason. Sometimes there is a car approaching from the other direction but not encroaching in my lane.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11450490February 4, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS
Frequent phantom braking when in cruise control. The vehicle unexpectedly brakes often while in cruise control when there is an oncoming vehicle in the oncoming traffic lane, despite the fact that both my vehicle and the oncoming vehicle are in their respective lanes (in other words there is no apparent danger of collision). The phantom braking also sometimes happens apparently at random, in other words when I can't see anything in the vehicle pathway that could be interpreted as dangerous. I am entering a date under "Additional Details" below, but this has happened repeatedly on many different dates.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11450485February 4, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS
Phantom braking when on cruise control
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0

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