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Tesla Phantom Braking Complaints Surged, Allegedly Linked to Tesla Vision Rollout

AI Incident Database · article · Nov 15, 2021 · UTC

In late 2021, Tesla owners’ complaints to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about sudden unexpected automatic braking rapidly increased, coinciding with when radar was no longer equipped in its Model 3 and Model Y vehicles.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2021-05-01T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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