AutonomousMedium
Tesla Phantom Braking Complaints Surged, Allegedly Linked to Tesla Vision Rollout
- Occurred
- May 1, 2021
- Published
- Jun 6, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In late 2021, Tesla owners’ complaints to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about sudden unexpected automatic braking rapidly increased, coinciding with when radar was no longer equipped in its Model 3 and Model Y vehicles.
Developers
- Tesla
Deployers
- Tesla
Harmed parties
- Tesla drivers
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Incident involves autonomous vehicle safety system malfunction causing sudden braking complaints.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8