Tl* the contact owns a 2017 tesla model s. while driving 35 mph, the brake pedal was depressed and failed to respond. there were no warning indicators illuminated. the contact applied the emergency brake, but it also failed to respond. as a result, the contact crashed into another vehicle. the air bags deployed. the contact sustained minor neck and back injuries that did not required medical attention. a police report was filed. the vehicle was towed to the contact's residence and then to an auto body shop. the dealer was not notified of the failure. the vehicle was not repaired. the manufacturer was notified of the failure. the approximate failure mileage was 2,500.
While pulling into a parking spot at a busy shopping center, and applying the brake pedal (having moved it over from accelerator) to stop the car at about 5 mph, the model s suddenly lurched forward at full acceleration hitting not 1 but 2 parked cars. nothing would stop the car as it took over and went forward with both my feet pressing the brake pedal as hard as i could. finally it stopped after hitting a second parked car. tesla has not responded, despite 2 days of emails and calls.
The car failed to come out of the enhanced autopilot mode, even after pressing the brake pedals, and went straight through a red light, causing a collision resulting in total loss of both vehicles. i believe the 'self driving mode', or the enhanced autopilot mode was defective. we would like to get the vehicle data pertaining to events just before the crash, but tesla would not give it without a court order. even before this incident i had noticed that enhanced autopilot mode made dangerous moves on highway. at one instance, i was driving in the rightmost lane (in the enhanced autopilot mode), and a driver trying to merge in the highway was not willing to slow down, but neither did the tesla, and i had to brake to avoid the collision. the autopilot did not detect the other car that was rapidly closing in to the tesla.
We were in a parking lot of "kidquest museum" in bellevue , wa. , taking our grand daughter, one year old, to the museum. our car was in stationary position. we were trying to figure out where to park. during this time, our model x, took off with unintended acceleration and we could not control the car. it was instantaneous, our car went and hit a parked chevy van. this van fwent upside down and went over the fence into the lot next to it. after the impact our car went and hit eletric pole, went into bushes and over an electrical box of 5 by 5. i could not open the door. there was smoke in the car (my wife thinks smoke might have started while the car was accelerating"). museum staff came and opened the passenger door. after she got out, first thing they did was to open the rear passenger door and took out our granddaughter. i came out thru passenger doo. fortunately no one was hurt. many of the airbags came out. we are unbelievably lucky. the parking lot is approximately 100 ft x 100. this is the parking lot usually where many kids are in the lot. fortunately that moment there was none. accident happened around 4:20 p.m . weather was gray but no rain. we still can not comprehend how car can take off at that speed. none of the emergency braking system or the cameras worked to stop the car
Please note - this is a complaint about the tesla model 3 which does not yet appear on your database. at least 50 of these have already been released to tesla employee guinea pigs and are loose on the highways. it is expected that thousands more will be on the roads soon. the following video shows just how much of a dangerous distraction the central touch-screen is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl7a-9dgsb0 almost every function of the car is controlled by the touch screen. the man who posted this video is probably typical of the type of person who will be driving these cars. he is young, enthusiastic about new technology and overconfident in his abilities. he states that he can see the touch-screen out of his peripheral vision while still watching the road ahead. this is absolutely impossible. a simple experiment using my own laptop whilst sitting in front of a window proves that although i can see the image of the screen in my peripheral vision it is impossible to place a finger on any of the icons without looking directly at the screen. this is the same kind of thinking that leads young people to text and drive and is causing a sharp rise in the road toll. the narrator of the video repeats the claim of elon musk that it doesn't really matter because teslas will soon be capable of self driving and already have automatic emergency braking (sometimes!) in many parts of the world it is illegal to even touch a phone whilst driving. this car is even more dangerous than that. even to control the screen wipers and air flow it is necessary to fiddle with the screen. please stop this dangerous experiment before it goes any further. this report will be forwarded to the media so that it is on record that nhtsa has been warned of the danger. thank you. concerned citizen dummy usa address used to satisfy your website. genuine contact details supplied.
While turning right and slowly pulling into a parking space when i hit the brake the car accelerated rapidly and jumped over the bumper and landed in a grassy spot. fortunate it didn't hit anything or anyone, i'm concerned that this could happen again and not have a benign outcome. tesla's first reaction is "i" must have hit the gas petal by mistake; i would like to accept that however i don't. to start a tesla you touch the brake, more testing is needed to assure brakes don't create false acceleration this is a very dangerous situation. i was afraid to drive the car home on a busy street where pedestrians cross at stop light; imagine that outcome? tesla needs to run test to determine if this malfunction of rapid acceleration when applying brakes is an engineering problem and not write it off as drivers hitting the gas!