2022 TESLA MODEL Y Complaints

While driving at highway speed and in adaptive cruise control, my car experienced abrupt deceleration. This happened at least 6 times in the course of a round trip from Austin to El Paso and back. In each instance, there was no nearby obstacle, such as a vehicle or debris or an animal. All driving was done in daylight, and the car wasn’t traveling through an underpass or any other shadow.

I received my 2022 Tesla Model Y a few weeks ago and quickly began to notice intermittent sudden breaking when utilizing the "Auto-pilot" feature. Because of these incidents I rarely utilize this feature any more. Today during an out of town trip, on two occasions when utilizing cruise control the car suddenly applied its breaks. During both occasions there were no other vehicles within 100 yards and the freeway (I-17 in Arizona) opposite direction lanes were separated by hills/rocks and not in direct eyesight.

Phantom braking — the car brakes for no reason in navigate on autopilot as well as adaptive cruise control. The phantom braking is particularly extreme on I80 through Nevada and US Rte 95 through Oregon, which is a two-lane road.

While driving on highways /interstates and using the vehicle cruise control or autopilot, the vehicle will suddenly apply the braking system when there is nothing in front of it. I would list specifics, but it happens every time that we take the vehicle on the highway/interstate, usually within the first 15 minutes. This has happened multiple times on trips, at 80mph (South Dakota) or at 65mph. I have noticed that white vehicles tend to trigger it more than others, even if they are just sitting on the side of the road or parked in a driveway off of the highway. Hills also seem to throw it off, when you are at the top and just over the crest, it has applied the brakes multiple times. This has gotten progressively worse since I've owned the vehicle (Dec 2021) which is why I am only now reporting it. I will no longer use it as I firmly believe me or my family would be seriously injured or killed if there is a vehicle behind me, especially at 80 mph that was not expecting the car to brake hard and as a result rear ended me. This is a significant vehicle vision system issue and it really does need to be addressed before lives are lost, if they have not been already. There are no other issues with the vehicle, no warning lights on and absolutely no indication the vehicle will apply the brakes until you are suddenly lurched forward due to rapid deceleration. I understand this is already on NHTSA radar but believe this is a much larger issue than is being reported.

The car system been keep crash cause it screen frozen and while crash it will no speed display no ac no warning no back up camera and important after lifting gas pedal the car will not reduce speed as before and I almost crash the car. Been report the problem to Tesla since early July and the keep cancel my appointment said it need wait for updates but can’t provide the date. I requested get the loaner while they can’t solve the problem but they denied and cancel my service appointment . It dangerous to drive and very unpredictable when the system crash while driving. While driving expect the car will reduce Speed but it not and no speed will display will cause over speed limit. The the pre collision system will not work at all and the system crash every few minutes and screen will shut off it self. While system crash will need triple amount of force the press on brake pedal to stop the car when it on high speed it impossible to respond to stop at short distance.

On a 1,500 mile road trip I experienced phantom braking once every 30 minutes while using both auto pilot and cruise control

I was driving on freeway 110S in heavy evening traffic. Suddenly Tesla touchscreen showed "Vehicle shutting down - pull over safely" and "Power reduced .. exit and enter may restore operation". Car had enough momentum and luckily I could change one lane and moved to shoulder. There was no crash and I called Tesla roadside assistance for towing car to Tesla service center. The car could not start and towed to nearest service station. This is a safety issue.

Model Y will repeatedly break for no reason while using Autopilot. This seems to happen most often less busy and smaller highways. The behavior makes Autopilot extremely unsafe to use when traveling at high speed with other vehicles behind you. There’s absolutely no reason for the sudden breaking with no cars ahead on the road. Shadows, dips in the road, cracks seem to be registered by the car as obstacles.

While using Navigate on Autopilot, vehicle applied heavy braking when no obstacle was present. Vehicle was traveling on a flat highway, no vehicles were within eyesight ahead and there was full daylight with the sun positioned behind the vehicle. Vehicle traveling behind us swerved to avoid collision.

My 2022 Tesla Y brakes suddenly when I am not expecting it to. This has happened many times on the freeway in traffic at high speed and often with large trucks behind me. I am concerned that I will get rear-ended by a much larger vehicle. This unexpected sudden braking has also occurred in city traffic. My car does not have full auto pilot- it has the standard driver assist that can't be removed from the car. I have tried to get help from my local Tesla Dealer but the service dept has been unwilling and uninterested in providing any service for this issue.