On 10/31/2019, my wife was waiting in line at a carwash. while waiting for the car in front of her to move out of the carwash tunnel, she had her foot fully pressed on the brake pedal and the 'hold' sign was showing on the instrument penal screen. approximately 2 minutes later, she released the break paddle, but before she could press the gas peddle, the car suddenly moved forward by itself at almost full acceleration. my wife immediately attempted to stop the car by pressing the break pedal in full, the car slowed down, but did not fully stop and kept moving forward until it hit the car in front of it. before and during the entire accident, sophie kept full humanly possible control over the car, but again, the car abruptly accelerated by itself and did not come to a full stop when break pedal was pressed. fortunately there was no injury to anyone, but the front bumper of the car is dented.
The car auto accelerated on a surface street and crashed
I was driving my tesla model x ev home and there were no problems. when i pulled into the driveway the self driving features accelerated the vehicle causing an accident.
My tesla model x 2016 accelerated on its own after i come to a complete stop at a parking lot, crashed into the front of a pediatrics building. 2 injuries. airbag was inflated.
This is a complaint about the tesla autopilot. the cat is now out of the bag. the way to cheat the "hands on wheel" nag is to tie a water bottle to the wheel. since there is a widespread belief that autopilot is 40% safer than a human driver it is probable that this enhancement will be adopted by tesla owners worldwide. here are just 2 videos of the bottle technique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmmgwtgtcjq and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsgtvrbegpq please investigate.
I was driving my model x p90d on a local street 2 days ago. when i made a v-shaped right turn at the slow speed of 5 to 10 mi/h, i hit a very small pothole and heard a bang. there was no vibration at all, so i didn't pay attention at the time. the car was driving perfectly normal for the rest of that day. i drove another 40 miles or so, including 20 miles on the highway with 60+ mi/h speed. the issue came up the next day when i was pulling my car out of the garage. i heard another bang when the car was backing, and my steering became stiff. the car wouldn't move anymore. then the "suspension needs service" warning came out the instrument panel. i came out and check the car, found out that the entire front wheel snapped off! i'm glad that it only happened to me at my garage but not on the highway.
Here is a report of a tesla model x crash in china. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/1din0uyenlrl8bo9gykpcg (google will translate) the owner reports that the car suddenly slammed into the concrete centre divider, spun 180 degrees and collided with another car. the drivers airbag failed to deploy resulting in very serious injuries. the rear seat occupants were unable to open the falcon doors. the emergency door release is not obvious to occupants and requires them to reach up behind the speaker grill to find the pull. the car caught fire and was burned to ashes. bystanders were unable to douse the fire using regular extinguishers.. the sudden swerve, failure of air-bag and failure of door release mechanisms is consistent with failure of the 12 volt electrical system or ground connection as has been reported on many other occasions. i believe that this car is extremely unsafe. please investigate. concerned citizen.
My tesla model x has severe windshield secondary image separation (ghosting). the lights of oncoming cars have triple images that are radiate several meters above the origin of light. this makes driving at night a dangerous and exhausting experience as i try to differentiate between the real lights and the secondary images. additionally, the tail lights of autos are also doubled making the cars in front of me blurry. lastly, traffic lights are also displaying secondary image separation making it difficult to accurately read traffic lights. currently, i am avoiding driving at night to avoid the danger of seeing multiple images. i made a video of the experience of secondary image separation when driving my model x: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eibjqdn0ne0 i would like tesla to replace my windshield with a windshield that does not exhibit secondary image separation, but i have been unable to get them to reply with my request. *tr
Here is a model x in the salvage yard. https://www.iaai.com/vehicle?itemid=24242595&rownumber=57&loadrecent=true it has been involved in a major collision. i have no knowledge about the circumstances of the crash but it may be significant that the back wheels are both jammed up in the wheel wells and that the back rh wheel appears to be skewed sideways. there is no impact damage to the back of the car that would account for the wheels being offset in this way. please investigate this crash to see whether suspension failure was the cause. note that i am not the owner and my only knowledge of this incident comes from examination of the photographs posted on this salvage auction site.
The car was on autopilot. my model x autopilot ran over a recliner at 60m/h that was in the middle of the highway. it was around 6 pm, weather was nice and clear. i tried to avoid it by moving to right lane but it hit the driver side of the front of car causing minor damages to car. i tried to reach out to tesla customer service but they told me [4 or 5 times] that someone will contact me and no one ever did. everytime i talked to tesla [by phone and email] they ask me for more information and then tell me someone will call you back. i wanted to know why didn't the car slow down or even change lanes and how can i avoid this in future specially that i use this car for my 2 kids. i had been trying to reach out to tesla since october 2016. *tr
This is a complaint about the tesla autopilot here is a video that was uploaded on sept 04 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrzaz3buw7y here is what appears to be a tesla employee demonstrating autopilot to a potential customer and encouraging him to drive hands free. the autopilot is still permitting hands free driving without sounding any alarms. the passenger/demonstrator assures him that tesla monitors the road and constantly improves by self learning. i understand that an inquiry into the tesla autopilot is underway. please watch this video to see how owners are still being given false confidence in the system.
Tesla is now allowing web browsing by the driver while the car is in motion.watch this video from time 27:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeu5ol2ir4m this is contrary to what tesla have previously claimed which is that browsing is never allowed while driving. i don't think that i need to spell out the dangers created by this situation. there are so many tesla showing up in the savage yards that have been in major front end collisions that there must be a problem with driver distraction or brake failure. please investigate.
Update to the autopilot situation. forum posts today show that the situation is getting even worse. https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/dangerous-autopilot-nagging-every-15-seconds-why sample: aesculus | august 25, 2016 mine works by holding with a few fingers at the bottom. i think it just wants to measure some amount of resistance when it moves the wheel. rossrallen | 25. august 2016 i agree with @aesculus - light finger pressure biasing the wheel to one side is enough, but you also need to be ready to assume control. so, a hand resting at 5, 6, or 7 o'clock should provide adequate pressure to be sensed by the ap. btw - use caution with ap on two-lane roads: ap stays too close to the centerline for my comfort, and many approaching drivers drive too close to the centerline. also from another forum https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/dangerous-autopilot-is-nagging-every-15-seconds-why.76141/ aesculus | 25. august 2016 mine works by holding with a few fingers at the bottom. i think it just wants to measure some amount of resistance when it moves the wheel. cgiguy, today at 8:20 am brandon332 said: ↑ it's dangerous because i have to look down at the screen rather than on the road, i almost crashed once! wow. i'm somehow not surprised by how many people are crashing their cars on ap with statements like this. at least you weren't petting your dog and cleaning the interior of the car around a curve while on ap. these comments are from enthusiasts who should be expected to know better. the behavior of the typical tesla owner in various countries around the world is likely to be even worse. tesla owners seem to have blind faith in the tesla and in the creator elon musk (blessed be his name)
Here is another example of the danger posed by the beta release autopilot . from the tmc forum. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/fl-i95-auto-pilot-jax-drivers-heads-up.75990/ discussion in 'model x' started by x fan, today at 7:54 am. i was in left lane using ap near where road splits to i295 loop. i was following a vehicle in front of me traveling at speed limit with cars in adjacent lane to right. action: all of a sudden, the car in front of me makes a beeline to get to far right hand lane to get to i295 split. instead of staying in left lane, my x makes a decision to sharply follow that car right. unless i had taken over i believe would have hit the car adjacent to me in the next lane over. after adjusting and regaining composure, i quickly looked at screen and saw that road striping was dimmed and i was unable to re-engage ap. it appears that the white concrete roadway coupled with intense sun facing car was impacting the x's ability to traverse the road properly." note having hands near the wheel or lightly resting on the wheel (coupled with autopilot induced inattention) is not good enough to prevent a crash please bring this uncontrolled experiment to an end.
Here is a freshly uploaded video of an owner using autopilot hands free. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro4dhfcuyeo at 2:10 into the video he passes an oncoming school bus on an undivided road whilst waving his hands around and talking to the video recorder. there needs to be a very loud and clear warning issued to drivers that such behavior is dangerous and illegal. better yet, the autopilot experiment should be halted immediately. please act before more lives are lost.
While turning left to enter a very narrow garage entrance i needed to determine whether or not i had to straighten out before pulling in or if my left turn was tight enough to pull in without reversing to straighten out. i saw that i was in the position that i could continue into the garage and lightly pressed the accelerator to finish my turn into the garage. it was at this point that the car accelerated with extreme force and within a second slammed into a large concrete pole that was just inside the garage to the left. i never felt the car slow in that moment, only speed up and i believe the car slammed into the pole while accelerating and would have continued to accelerate if not for the large pole. i did not have either foot depressed on either pedal at the moment of collision. the air bags did not deploy, but there was very severe damage to the front end of the car that will be at least $25k. i was not on the phone or distracted in any way. i was driving carefully and paying full attention. this is not a case of mistaken pedal because i was intending to accelerate. at first tesla told us over the phone that their logs show that the driver pressed the pedal 100% and then tapped the brake before impact. this explanation sounded physically impossible because the distance covered was less than 3 car lengths. a month later tesla sent a letter stating the driver pressed the accelerator 100% until the vehicle sensed a crash. tesla did not respond to our query about why their log story had changed. tesla also refused to provide data about accelerator/brake percentage and car speed for the car earlier in the day. if a driver is pressing the pedal 100% it is a very deliberate action. this is a failure of the accelerator and the automatic braking. the car accelerated on its own and crashed full force into a large concrete pole.
On april 30, my husband was driving my new model x on the freeway. it was a sunny day. he disengaged autopilot to change freeways. after he changed freeways, he re-engaged autopilot. the car followed the curve on the new freeway, turning to the right, but when the freeway straightened out, the car kept turning and hit a guardrail on the right side. no warning, no braking, no stopping. tesla tells us that the autopilot was not re-engaged and was just in cruise control (i don't know how the car would be following the curve in the road then). also, that it's algorithm correctly instructed the car to hit the guardrail at full speed rather than to stop or beep a warning. at best, tesla suffers from a design flaw (how could my husband incorrectly think he was in autopilot mode; how could the algorithm make us crash when the freeway was pretty empty). at worst, tesla is covering up their mistakes.
Falcon doors not closing, rear driver seat electrical dead, warning light blocking backup camera reading rear seats not in place, all insulation peeling off above tires, bubbling paint, trunk and side panels misaligned so tilted trunk hood and finger goes in one gap but fingernail only barely in other side gap, wavy insulation along rear, front passenger door motor spins. permanent seat depression in rear. stationary to backing up.