Tesla Model Y Complaints (2022)

851 consumer complaints on file.

#11452822February 18, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
I got the car a couple of days ago. In a 50 mile two-way road, I experienced over 10 phantom braking problems. 2 of the brakings were a bit hard.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11452780February 18, 2022
SERVICE BRAKES, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
Today I was driving to work using the adaptive cruise control and the car applied brakes for no valid reason, this sudden deceleration could have caused an accident.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11452753February 18, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
I am experiencing regular "phantom braking" by the Autopilot adaptive cruise control. This creates sudden and dangerous hard braking at highway speeds between 55 and 65 mph with abrupt deceleration to the low 40's and has nearly resulted in rear end collisions with trailing vehicles. I received a notice that my vehicle was being built with camera "Tesla Vision" sensors only and does not have the radar sensors of previous Model Y vehicles. Several over the air software updates since my delivery Jan 3 have failed to improve reliability of this system.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11452750February 18, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
On multiple occasions the Tesla Model Y has performed what is deemed "phantom braking" while on the highway, causing my car to frantically slam on the brakes while using cruise control. This happened several times and I am not afraid to use cruise control. It only occurs when I have cruise control or 'autopilot' engaged, and out of nowhere the car will respond like it sees something in the road and either cut cruise control out, which engage regenerative braking, or will just apply the brakes at a rapid rate. Fortunately the majority of the time this occurred at night time without any cars directly behind me, but it has made me worried to use cruise control. The last time this happened was around December 31st and I have not been comfortable using cruise control since then.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11452743February 18, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
The contact owns a 2022 Tesla Model Y. The contact stated while driving 65 MPH with the cruise control engaged, while another vehicle was approaching on the left, the vehicle started to decelerate independently. The contact stated that an unknown warning light was illuminated. The contact was able to continue driving but experienced the failure to the extent of manually braking and stopping the vehicle. The contact scheduled an appointment for the dealer to inspect the vehicle. The contact became aware that the Tesla App detected no failure and canceled the appointment. The contact stated that the Tesla App had canceled appointments on four different occasions. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer had been informed of the failure by the Tesla App. The failure mileage was approximately 300.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11452732February 18, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
Coming from a 2017 Tesla Model S and a 2018 Tesla Model 3 to a 2022 Model Y the experience has been jarring. Tesla's driver assistance system, termed "Autopilot" has become almost unusable due to multiple, frequent, incidences of phantom-braking: 1. On a two-way road, when there are trucks in the oncoming lane, my 2022 Tesla Model Y Vision-only (Tesla removed radar) the car will slam its brakes 2. On a divided, limited-access highway, my 2022 Tesla Model Y will randomly slam its brakes. There are all safety issues because it can brake without any warning or logical indication why it should be braking, and cars behind me can very easily crash into me. Tesla did NOT have this issue, or at least not this prevalent, with my 2017 Model S and 2018 Model 3 that included both radar and vision for their driver assistance system.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11452670February 18, 2022
SERVICE BRAKES, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
While traveling on I81, at dusk, on 2/16/2022, the car automatically, with no apparent reason, momentarily applied the brakes, causing the car to veer sharply to the left - this occurred twice on a 20 mile trip - once while passing a semi, once while driving under an overpass - autopilot was with ‘distance speed control’ on - car is new with less than 300 miles (purchased on 2/11) - Because to this, I consider the car to be unsafe to drive with autopilot ‘on’
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11452660February 18, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
I was driving on freeway 101 north in LA and was merging into freeway 405 north. My auto pilot was engage and my car suddenly Decided to apply the breaks and reduce the speed from 65 miles per hour to around 45. This was done while there were no visible vehicles in sight and in front of me. The auto pilot is quite unreliable.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11452640February 17, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS
While driving in Autopilot, the car rapidly decelerated from 55mph to 35mph two times about 30 seconds apart, when two separate semi trucks were approaching me in oncoming lane, not crossing the lane or anything on a two way road. Seems to be well known as "phantom braking", but i just got the car yesterday and have put less than 30 miles on the car and already experienced this phantom braking twice. (Car currently has 60 miles on it) To note i did test drive a 2020 Model Y in December 2020 and did not experience this at all when using Autopilot on that car.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11452604February 17, 2022
SERVICE BRAKES, VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
The vehicle control system intermittently commands hard braking at highway speed when there are no obstacles or vehicles nearby. This sometimes happens repeatedly over a period of several minutes and sometimes doesn't happen for weeks at a time. The braking and deceleration is so rapid as to result in difficulty controlling the car and potential hazard to cars following behind. After repeated "bug reports" to Tesla, nothing has changed. They issue a software update with a new game, but don't fix the hazardous problems.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11452600February 17, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
While driving on a two lane highway at 70 mph on cruise control oncoming semi’s will cause the automatic braking system to drastically put on the brakes to 20 mph in 1 second, causing everyone in the car to lurch forward and pissing off the cars behind me to the point of almost rear ending me and causing road rage. I don’t want to neither be rear ended or shot at by these drivers behind me so cruise control is worthless and unusable on this dangerous car
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11452575February 17, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
As per many similar complaints, my Model Y while on cruise control will suddenly brake for absolutely no reason. I have almost been rear ended on the highway while traveling at 74 miles per hour. The car drops 20-40 MPH seemingly for absolutely no reason. I believe that this has been dubbed "Phantom Braking". Add me to the list!
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11452569February 17, 2022
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL, SERVICE BRAKES, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
At highway speeds using adaptive cruise or autopilot, vehicle suddenly brakes and veers towards the shoulder of the road. This occurs when a large vehicle such as a bus or semi is approaching from the opposite direction. Emergency break came close to causing a rear end collision today 2/17/22. Contacted Tesla service for investigation and repair.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11452543February 17, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
While operating the cruise control on two-lane roads, the Tesla Model Y will frequently engage the emergency stop/warning function. NOTE: no autopilot has been used. There is no lane swerving or concern of the car approaching in the opposite lane or is the Model Y in any unsafe operating situation. This occurs in almost every driving situation with the cruise control engaged (two-lane roads) and has been documented with other passengers in the automobile. Obviously, this creates a panic situation for the driver and passengers while also creating a very unsafe operation for following cars. Multiple dates/times and weather conditions were mostly clear, i.e. no rain. As a note, we have owned a 2016 and 2018 Tesla Model S that did not have this problem.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11452528February 17, 2022
SERVICE BRAKES, VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
Phantom Braking While using Autopilot (cruise control), my Tesla Model Y without warning slows the car from the speed limit (ex: 60mpg) down to half the speed or less. This usually occurs when the is a large approaching vehicle (semi or box truck) or when going around corners with a solid background (trees or large rocks). I assume this is because the car believes a collision is imminent and is trying to avoid it. Once the vehicle is past the car continues as if nothing occurred. The first time this happened was very scary and I ad no idea why it happened. Now I keep my foot resting above the gas pedal which keeps the car from severe braking action if you depress pedal right away. I mostly do not use cruise control on two lanes roads with lots of traffic for safety reasons, especially if there's someone following too close. My last trip of 60+ miles this probably occurred half a dozen times until I turned it off.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11452511February 17, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
While using the Autopilot feature, the car applied the brakes many times for no reason. One incident was so severe that I decided to disable the autopilot feature for the rest of the trip so as not to put the drivers behind me in a dangerous situation.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11452506February 17, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
The vehicle, while in Autopilot, has demonstrated "phantom breaking" on three occasions, two of which occurred on the same trip. The first was at night traveling on a highway with no vehicles in front of the car while the car was traveling 70 mph (the posted speed limit). (details on speed and mileage included below) This almost caused the car behind us to rear end our car. The second occurred during the day as we were traveling over a bridge on an off ramp at approximately 50 mph and both my children, who were sleeping, were unprepared for a sudden stop and complained about pain from the safety restraint system. The third was on a highway at 70 mph, and there was less of an effect as I was holding my foot above the throttle in the event this happened again. My wife asked that I no longer use this system while she or the children are in the car. There is no indication that the system recognizes an issue as the automatic dashcam did not activate, but it has activated in other situations where vehicles have made sudden movements in our lane in front of the vehicle. It is available for inspection. It has not been inspected by service yet. They are scheduled for February 22. No other inspections have occurred. There was no warning of this or messages of any kind to indicate the system was not functioning properly.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11452451February 17, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
The car applies brakes for no apparent reason while using adaptive cruise control. This occurs frequently and without warning. I have become afraid to use cruise control because I fear it will cause an accident.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11452423February 17, 2022
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
While using adaptive cruise control, this vehicle intermittently breaks dramatically and swerves on its own without any indication of a possible collision. In fact, most of the time there are no vehicles even within sight of the vehicle. Occurs even on straight roads with no vehicles seen and no one in the area. Friday 02-11-2022 2300hrs - Sat 02-12-2022 0300 hrs. While driving in traffic any vehicles on the right or left are perceived as a threat and the vehicle breaks wildly.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11452419February 17, 2022
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING, LANE DEPARTURE: BLIND SPOT DETECTION
Autopilot feature hard braked twice suddenly while driving on highway . I was next to another car .I was shocked Auto lane departure with over taking slow traffic . While overtaking the car gives left signal option to lane change and then while crossing the vehicle in the right it gives another signal to turn right or tries to turn while the vehicle is still there in the blind spot . This happen nee few times which is scary .
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0

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