Thousands of 'terrified' Australian drivers join class action against Tesla
www.abc.net.au
As Elon Musk departs the White House and shifts his attention back to Tesla, he's now facing the fury of Australian drivers who are suing the electric car company over faults including phantom braking.
  • Drusas@fedia.io
    152·
    5 days ago

    This happens with all adaptive cruise control vehicles sometimes. I’m anti-Tesla as much as the next person, but this isn’t a Tesla problem.

    • 50MYT@lemmy.world
      14·
      5 days ago

      Yes and no.

      You learn how your car behaves with this tech and it stops being a surprise not long after you get used to it.

      However

      As someone who had one of these bullshit phantom brake Tesla’s - it’s random and chaotic. Like you have no way of knowing when it will or won’t slam the brakes for no reason. I stopped using it not long into having the car before I sold it.

      I bought a MachE that doesn’t do it and I’m legit way happier.

    • ShadowRam@fedia.io
      102·
      5 days ago

      I’ve had my 2019 Toyota Rav4 since 2019.

      There has never been any phantom braking.

      Nor have I experienced it in any other adaptive cruise control cars I’ve rented.

      • Drusas@fedia.io
        2·
        5 days ago

        Well, I’ve heard anecdotes from other drivers about how it happens to them, and I know it happens to me with my Subaru. I’m glad your Toyota doesn’t do it. I wonder if more recent ones do or if they just avoided the problem altogether.

    • ThePantser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      5 days ago

      My Pacifica does this all the time. It’s because a car in front of you turns quickly and your car can’t process the charge fast enough so to be safe it pretends the car is still there. It’s the whole reason you are supposed to stay alert so you can make the corrections.

      But the Tesla is advertised as full self driving and this is happening, meanwhile my Pacifica is just advertised as adaptive cruise so the Tesla is worse.

  • sorghum@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    5 days ago

    First time using adaptive cruise control tech? I thought that was all part of the tradeoff with adaptive cruise. Hell my semi truck gets a false positive every now and then

  • scott@lemmy.orgEnglish
    5·
    5 days ago

    I hate that this shit is on the road. I can’t imagine if every time the false alarm brake warning went off in my work car itslammed on the brakes. Well. Yes I can. And I’d switch to a different vehicle if I could if that was a thing.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
    42·
    5 days ago

    in addition to driving through images of a road and mauling mannequins dressed as kids in most poor weather scenarios, it brakes when there is nothing to hit…