Jan. 23, 2020. 10:45 am. i was on my street, a narrow residential street, preparing to back in my garage. in order to do that on this narrow street, i touched the lip of the driveway across the street. speed well under 3 mph. when i did so, my car suddenly sharply accelerated and at the same time swerved to the right. the acceleration and swerve drove the car into the townhouses across the street from my house. the driveways are very short, barely a car's length. after crashing, i could feel the car still accelerating. i quickly switched the car into park and the spontaneous acceleration continued. in order to stop in i had to turn the car off. when the towing company turned the car on later it immediately started to spontaneously accelerate and surge forward again. the mazda dealer and insurance inspector explained to me that there is a sensor: when a wheel encounters what it perceives to be an obstacle, it 'tosses' all the power to that wheel and accelerates. these driveways have a small lip at the edge. this sensor reacted to it in a way that caused my car to crash. the car was totaled and the townhouses across the street damaged. thank heaven there was no one outside or they would have been killed. this needs to be investigated, recalled and changed.
Vehicle is 2 months old and the automatic emergency braking is going off in the middle of the street with no cars around. today it went off in the middle of traffic and luckily the driver behind me was paying attention. i called the dealer to ask about servicing the recall and they said they did not have a solution. when i told them i almost got rear ended. their response was thank goodness you didn't and if there was anything else they could help me with. zero offers to help or concern for an obvious safety issue with this vehicle.
Car has given multiple warnings that driver and safety assist features are disabled -- despite not being enabled. car also gave a camera malfunction warning approximately 1 minute before slamming on brakes unexpectedly at 35-40mph and causing injury to driver;incident occurred at clear night with no other cars around. car currently in shop; no word on what caused this or when it will be repaired.
My car's collision warning engaged without cause. it makes the car brakes abruptly for no reason. this is especially dangerous during highway speed. it happened 3 times so far in the 4 months that i own the car. some other owners also experienced this.
While the vehicle is in motion the right side blind spot monitoring system does not work occasionally. sometimes this happens with a warning message but sometimes it happens without a warning. multiple repair attempts have been made but the issue still keeps happening. mazda is trying to work on this issue but is not able to figure out what is wrong with their vehicles.
The entire vehicle safety system malfunctions at random times while driving, most recently on the highway. the dashboard illuminates stating "safety and driver support systems partially disabled, drive safely". i lose blind spot monitoring, lane keep assistance, radar, and city brake support, among other things. this has happened several times over the past 2 weeks.
- rear view mirror fell off while on the freeway. hot days will break down the adhesive and cause the rear view mirror to fall off. - brakes vibrate harshly when in sport mode. faster the vehicle goes, the more harsh the brakes will vibrate. - acc