The phantom braking problem will never be solved until Tesla admit their approach to ADAS has been a fiasco that has killed and endangered their owners and switch to Intel's MobilEye platform, meaning that the camera would have to be replaced, or at least new Teslas would need to be switched to the Mobileye system.
Tesla's approach will never compete with Mobileye in terms of safety OR performance. Anyone who has driven with an Intel Mobileye equipped vehicle and who pays attention to the dashboard warning, throttle control, and braking and steering events that the MobilEye EyeQ chip passes to the vehicle control systems, even as far back as 2017, can tell you that the system simply does not make mistakes. I don't mean it doesn't occasionally make mistakes, it does not ever make mistakes.
Furthermore, the Road Experience Management (REM) approach is vastly superior to Tesla's in every way, which I personally believe is one of the reasons why I am unable to fool the camera even when I try (pretty much on a daily basis!) to get the car to hit things.
Mobileye REM™ - Road Experience Management
www.mobileye.com
MobilEye is in their 7th generation of chips with 100 million shipped, autonomous full self driving was supported in 2016, and they are now integrating LIDAR into the platform, while Tesla has essentially given up and continues to claim that camera only is enough.
Mobileye's EyeQ® SoC is a custom hardware and software solution specifically designed for ADAS and self-driving systems. The EyeQ® SoC suite was developed specifically for driving applications and is the most trusted chip for ADAS and AV tech.
www.mobileye.com
Tesla is correct, a camera is sufficient. But who wants sufficient on a system that if it fails can be the difference between life or death? I don't, I want over-engineered. And I want dual systems checking each other. Other manufacturers are integrating LIDAR / RADAR. Consider how an airplanes Nav runs (every input from every sensor is fed to two totally separate computers running calculations simultaneously, autopilot in a plane must receive confirmation from both system or advise pilot to take control.). You don't give up on input on a critical decision like when to brake, steer, accelerate because your engineers couldn't make it work properly. You use a system that does work if you cannot design your own.
I would very much like to buy a new Tesla, but will continue to wait until the company gets serious about their approach to ADAS. Also expecting them to score higher than 65 from Consumer Reports for the in-vehicle Infotainment systems.