As an owner this stuff is downright scary when it happens to you. I doesn't matter if you're on limited autopilot on the highway or the very limited "full self driving beta." I'm in the beta, and when this happens it's dangerous and scary. Tesla will not address this issue with owners so the the "NHTSA" has stepped in.
It kills me as a member of their beta program I cannot submit feedback when these things happen.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/tesla-investigated-over-phantom-braking-416-000-cars-involved/ar-AAU4x99?ocid=hplocalnews
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced this week it has opened an investigation into over 400,000 Teslas—all 2021 and 2022 model year Tesla Model 3 and Model Y electric vehicles—for problems with their automated emergency braking systems.
This isn’t the first time Tesla has had to deal with NHTSA about its potentially faulty AEB technology. In October, Tesla recalled almost 12,000 of its EVs because an over-the-air update caused communication problems between two chips that help run the AEB systems.
Other automakers, including Nissan and autonomous shuttle company EasyMile, have also had problems with their AEB systems.
New technologies can lead to new problems, for which we sometimes have to invent new terminologies. In the automotive world, the growing number of cars with automated emergency brake capability has led to something called "phantom braking," which is when the AEB system thinks it needs to brake in order to prevent a collision, but there's actually nothing there to hit.
This week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it has received 354 complaints from Tesla drivers concerning these unexpected automatic braking incidents over the past nine months. NHTSA said that Tesla drivers have reported "that the rapid deceleration can occur without warning, at random, and often repeatedly in a single drive cycle."
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If this is the future, well I'm not sure I like it.