2022 TESLA MODEL Y Complaints

When driving on a two lane highway today, I had 3 episodes of the car applying the brakes to suddenly decrease speed when a vehicle was in the oncoming lane. I also had another event of emergency braking when a car was crossing the highway on a perpendicular road far ahead of my car. When I reached that road, the car had already safely crossed. Cruise control is unusable on the Tesla because of these events.

While using adaptive cruise control on the highway, the car applied the brakes on its own. There were no cars in front of us, nor on the side of us. We were very lucky there was no one behind us or we would have been rear-ended. We went from 70 mph to 65 mph in a matter of an instant. I was able to apply the gas to stop the braking. There were no warnings or messages ahead of the incident.

Just got the Model Y and drove from Kansas City to Denver and back to Kansas City. When using the cruise control the car would suddenly break for no apparent reason. The breaking rapidly decreases the speed of the car. This would occur multiple time without any warning or apparent consistency. Talking with other Tesla drivers at charging stations, this seems to be a well-known and common problem. Because of the unpredictable nature of this, I feel it is unsafe to use the cruise control when there are other cars present, especially cars that are behind the vehicle. I have no idea if the break lights come on with the phantom breaking occurs. If they do not, this would make the situation even worse. Cruise control has been around for years--it should work properly and **safely** on such a high-end automobile.

While using Autosteer, the automatic emergency braking engages almost every time we pass by a semi-trailer truck and while there is oncoming traffic on a two-lane road. This sudden and unprovoked engagement of the automatic emergency brake system has almost caused us to be rear ended three times over the last four days and is officially causing concern. This issue will be reported to Tesla. The problem has not been reproduced by the manufacturer or service center yet. The vehicle has not been inspected by the dealership since we drove it off the lot 3 weeks ago. Warning indications do not go off all the time

My model Y has experienced several "phantom braking" events ever since I owned it, which has been about 2 months now. This has happened when I am using the adaptive cruise control.

My car has problems with uncommanded slowdowns while cruise control and/or Autopilot are active. The vehicle will slow down suddenly in any number of predictable and unpredictable situations. The extent of the slowdown is variable as well. It can range from a slight “hiccup” in the speed, which is simply unpleasant, to a significant, rapid decrease. (Like, more than 10mph, very quickly.) This can occur at various times of day, though I don’t drive much at night (it has happened then as well). Driving on any two lane road with a vehicle following at any time is risky and in my opinion hazardous. Particularly if the vehicle following is even remotely close. If the following vehicle isn’t paying attention and the car decides to brake for whatever reason (and apparently there are LOTS) that’s a collision waiting to happen. I have refused to use my car’s cruise control system since shortly after I got the car due to this issue. I try it every once in a while to see if it’s any better, but it hasn’t made it more than 5 miles before another event. Not only is it a terrible experience for passengers, it’s unpleasant to have to keep my foot above the accelerator pedal to react to the stupid braking the car will do. Some of the predictable things that cause braking can include, not limited to - oncoming vehicles on a 2-lane (especially trucks, and almost everything bigger than an F150), many larger mailboxes, and in some parts of my commute - simply nothing at all. I don’t know what the car sees, but it brakes. Less predictable are the times it will brake for shadows. Can’t use cruise control when there’s trees shadowing the road. It is absurd. No vehicle this day and age should risk causing an accident because of random shadows!! To be clear, I’ve never had a problem in a divided highway. Everywhere else, though, forget it.

Phantom breaking several times daily. Now I don’t feel safe using it and I am only able to use the feature when I am sure there is no one behind me. One incentant almost resulted in rear end collision. Car thought something was there and applied break abruptly and person behind was following closely and almost crashed into me. Since then I am not able to trust this feature. A major software flaw for such an expensive car. And a very serious safety concern.

On two lane highway semi truck approaching car slammed on brakes. If someone had been behind us we would have caused an accident. Went from 60 to 28 in a flash.

When driving with adaptive cruise control turned on, the vehicle suddenly slowed down for no apparent reason. No other vehicles were nearby, no nearby structures, no paper or debris drifting on the road. This happened about 6 to 8 times over two days. I am glad that no one was following me.

Tesla Y has a special setting for carwashes, that driver has to enable, which puts the car in neutral, closses all the windows and plus some more. Unfortunately system failed; car accelerated on its own and I hit a car in front of me, so it failed the second time and car didn't stop on its own to avoid collision. I called Tesla and this incident is under their investigation.