2022 TESLA MODEL Y Complaints

Phantom Braking. The most recent instances of phantom braking occurred on a recent trip to Lake Tahoe. The car phantom braked on the way there on the I-5 on August 5th in the afternoon. I don’t have the exact time, the braking surprised us so much that we didn’t think to enter a “bug report”. The I-5 at that section is a 4 lane divided highway. I think the cause of the phantom braking may have been a bridge that had a slight rise, causing the cameras to think there was oncoming traffic. We had the same issue multiple times on the way home on Tuesday, August 9th. In those instances, we entered bug reports. We also had multiple instances of phantom braking when driving on Route 28 around Lake Tahoe on August 7-9. Route 28 is a 2-lane road with alternating light and shadows from the trees. This may have caused the phantom braking, we entered bug reports in those instances

My Tesla provided an in car warning message on June 28 stating that the “front passenger safety restraint system fault” exists. I immediately created a service request (the same day) and included pictures of the fault message. On July 6th, the Tesla service team stated that the appointment required a service center visit (which is not an option when making the appointment originally) and scheduled the appointment for July 25. On July 25, I took the car into the service center. A day later, Tesla confirmed an issue with the OCS module that required a new front passenger seat be installed. Tesla could not provide a date the new seat would be available and let me drive off with the vehicle. I made a follow up appointment on August 16th. On the day of the appointment, the Tesla service team confirmed that the replacement seat was not yet available and they still did not know when it would be. It has now been almost two months since the original alert and despite my proactive efforts, Tesla cannot tell me when this serious safety issue with my vehicle will be repaired. Tesla is allowing its customers to continue to drive vehicles with critical safety issues without any urgency in the repair.

I have had several incidents with this car. When using either the autopilot feature or just the cruise control. The vehicle randomly brakes very suddenly. It happens frequently when there is nothing in front of us. The two most recent incidents clearly present a huge safety risk. We were driving on the interstate, there was a semi next to us. We were in the left lane going 75 mph. The car suddenly braked for no reason and in a matter of seconds we went from 75 to 55 mph. Had the semi been behind us we would be dead. The other most recent incident was on a four lane highway. There was a truck behind us. We only had cruise control on and again the car suddenly hit the brakes for no reason. The truck behind us had to swerve to get out of the way and avoid hitting us. I have reached out to Tesla and have been told it is a software issue that they are working through. We have had this issue for the entire life of our car so if they are working to update it, they are not doing so quickly.

On a trip from Estes Park to Lubbock on Aug 12, 2022, there are at least two times of phantom braking under Autosteer, and at least three times of phantom braking under Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC). A phantom braking usually refers to a very sudden brake without any clear reasons. In our case, for every phantom braking during Autosteer or TACC, we were on highway with a speed limit or a few percent over speed limit, the weather was sunny and very clear, there was no cars in front of us in our (in any in most cases) lane, and road condition seems to be very normal. There is no warning from the car either. We are willing to have Tesla to examine the data of our car on that day for these sudden brakes. There was a rain on Aug 11, and the car was inside rain (in a parking lot of Fern Lake Trailhead) then and used (under city condition) after rain on Aug 11. Such sudden brake without any warning would be dangerous if there is a car behind this car. We did not have any accident (no car was behind us when such braking occurred). Our car is new, and we just found this problem. It is NOT reproduced or confirmed by a dealer or independent service center. The vehicle is NOT inspected by the manufacturer, police, insurance representatives or others. I did not observe anything abnormal and messages from the car before this phantom braking.

I have a son 14 who is 99 lbs. It doesn't trigger the passenger airbag for the front seat. According to Tesla the limit is 100 lbs. My son is average height and weight. Why wouldn't a 14 year old kid trigger the Airbag to be on?!? My son has been out of a car seat/booster for 5 years! IMO this is a safety concern and I will have him sit in the back seat, but this seems kind of ridiculous.

On at least 4 occasions, April 4th 2022 and August 6th 2022 to be precise, I was traveling in my Model Y at highway speeds using Full Self Driving when my car suddenly and without warning decelerated and sharply steered out of the lane causing me to have to forcefully intervene to retain control of the car. On the April 4th date there were no cars or traffic around, the incident just happened, on the August 6th incident I was on 495 in fairly heavy traffic and was afraid that I would cause an accident because of the sudden and violent nature of the braking and turning of the car. The other incidents were also at traffic speeds in light traffic.

My husband took ownership of a brand new Tesla Y on Saturday 18 June from the Tesla Loveland dealership in Colorado. In less than 2 months of receiving the car, the electrical system ‘totally failed and ‘malfunctioned’ 3 times, while driving on busy roads/highways which placed my family’s life and safety at high risk of injury and death from a potential head on collision and crash from vehicles driving behind. The 3rd and most recent ‘malfunction’ occurred on Saturday 6 August at 12.46pm when (with no warning from the car’s warning or emergency system) vibrated aggressively before completely stopping in the middle lane of a busy road. This potentially fatal ‘malfunction of the cars electrical system’ was on one of Boulder’s busiest roads. I had turned onto a busy road (so was traveling at a very low speed) when the car started vibrating very loudly and stopped. There was no safety warning by the car nor any time to drive the car to the side of the road. This ‘malfunction’ and total outage put my life and my children’s lives at risk as we were trapped in a 4-lane carriage way and risked our safety to avoid oncoming traffic to get to safety. My husband called the police who created a safety barrier around the car while a tow truck arrived to tow the car to Tesla in Loveland Colorado. The incident put my family’s life at risk including my two young children (aged 8 and 6) who were passengers in the back seat. The first ‘electrical malfunction’ occurred on Thursday July 14 at 9.30pm when the car’s electrical system totally malfunctioned and stopped on a busy road. The car was towed to Tesla in Loveland. Several days later when Tesla technicians advised the problems were fixed and arranged for a Tesla technician to drive to us, the car malfunctioned and stopped on a busy road while the Tesla driver was in the car. It’s was towed again back to the dealership. This car is a lemon, unroadworthy and poses a death risk.

Tesla cameras are equipped with internal cameras intended to monitor driver attentiveness while using “Autopilot” features. The internal monitoring can be bypassed by simply covering the camera. This reduces the attentiveness checks and can be a danger as drivers will use autopilot functionality without proper attention on the road.

Multiple times while driving across I-70 through Kansas, my car suddenly broke and slowed down at least 10 mph for no reason. There was nothing in the road. One time it even identified a mile marker as a motorcycle. I was almost rearended when it hard broke three times in a row and threw myself and my children forward forcefully. I realize this is an issue under investigation, but until people like myself continue to complain and wonderful folks like you force Tesla to make changes, it is going to continue to be an issue. It's not safe. Thankfully I WAS in the middle of Kansas every time and there was no one around (except for the above mentioned incident where the van behind me was gracious enough to pass and could clearly tell I was having difficulty with the car). If this happened in a crowded area, I for sure would be in a high speed collision. After it happened on my outbound trip, I tried to make note of it on my trip home: what was around me, what the camera was "seeing" on the screen, etc. I noted already the motorcycle instead of a sign. It also seemed to have real difficulty when I could see a mirage and reflections (as it was over 100 degrees out) but I genuinely don't know if cameras can see mirages or if that is only human eyes. Thanks for your help in pursuing the issue!

I took delivery of a Tesla Y in February 2022. About a half dozen times since, I've been driving on the highway using cruise control/auto pilot and the car will randomly slam on it's brakes, so hard that loose objects in the car are flying to the front. There was no warning prior or any of these incidents. Thankfully I have not had cars directly behind me when this occurred...if there had been someone behind me they would have absolutely hit me. I have not yet contacted Tesla.