Please read thru the earlier responses. Often, if I or someone else suggests reporting a CLEAR safety defect to NHTSA is that I get attacked or belittled or a vocal few try to convince that person to not report to NHTSA for various reasons. They include stuff like: it's random (and not systematic, even the person making that claim really has no idea), so not report worthy, it's not a safety defect, it happens all the time w/other cars, no need to report to NHTSA since Tesla will handle it, it only should be reported if the automaker is unwilling to deal with the issue, and so on. The is complete poppycock and flies in the face of what's in a Model S and X owner's manual along w/standard verbiage I've seen in other vehcle owners manuals.
And, often that post and its responses get carved off and moved away from the thread into this one, so that the OP and others may not even see it. There are tons of random excuses like the above. Often it seems due to misguided attitudes that they're "protecting" Tesla from media attention or whatever by withholding such a report.
Or another excuse is that NHTSA would be clogged w/reports. Well, if there are so few for Teslas, there wouldn't be much clogging.
I'm talking clear safety defects for which other automakers have recalled vehicles and/or can clearly increase chance of accident or injury such as loss of propulsion not due to user error or windshield wipers failing.
Here's yet another example of a recall for loss of propulsion: Fiat 500e electric cars recalled to fix software glitch: more than 16,000 affected.
On other auto forums, the above attitude and behavior doesn't exist and people are not berated for asking someone to report a clear safety defect incident to NHTSA/appropriate regulatory body (e.g. Transport Canada for Canada), even if they do it many across many threads.
I frankly have not had time to continue arguing this here and feel like I'm talking to a bunch of brick walls.
