This last weekend we drove from our home in Arroyo Grande CA to the Mammoth Lakes area. Enroute, we experienced a number of unneeded emergency braking events while on the highways at speed (65-72 mph). While this happened about a dozen time, 5-6 of them were significant slow downs and could have caused us to be rear ended. In none of these events was there any reason for the emergency braking. One happened when another car was approaching from the rear quickly to pass. We did have the "emergency braking" feature turned off (and turned it off again after charging as it reset that feature to "on" by default.
These events led us to stop using the cruise control entirely for the last 2 hours of our trip home. Prior to this, the adaptive cruise control had functioned normally with very few unexpected emergency braking events in the last year or so.
I have contacted Tesla about this and scheduled a service call. I've also submitted a report to NHTSA about this.
We did disable the feature of “automatic emergency breaking” but that had no effect at all. This is a serious issue that need to be addressed immediately.
These events led us to stop using the cruise control entirely for the last 2 hours of our trip home. Prior to this, the adaptive cruise control had functioned normally with very few unexpected emergency braking events in the last year or so.
I have contacted Tesla about this and scheduled a service call. I've also submitted a report to NHTSA about this.
We did disable the feature of “automatic emergency breaking” but that had no effect at all. This is a serious issue that need to be addressed immediately.