Table 1 shows one common electronic stability control related problems of the 2018 Tesla Model 3.
| Problem Category | Number of Problems |
|---|---|
| Electronic Stability Control problems |
Several ongoing issues with touch screen failure (black outs) malfunction, has been repaired more than 3 times continues to be issue * ongoing accelerometer malfunction * all of sudden receive error message stability control disabled * --regenerative braking disabled * --automatic emergency braking is disable * ongoing phone key and connection issues, antenna issues, unable to connect to bluetooth. Repeated issues have not been resolved by Tesla service dept * touch screen failure (black outs)and consistent issues with connectivity wifi. * mass malfunction of internal hardware * voice control barely works * seatbelt sensor malfunction * issue with breaking noise, screeching * uncontrollable acceleration while ongoing chronic unintended acceleration problems, such a accelerate out of control, jerking, braking all of sudden while driving. Suddenly acceleration * these are ongoing issues with our Tesla Model 3. Several of these malfunctions have been addressed with Tesla service department more than 3 to 4 in the last six months. Filed complaint on 8/30/2019 NHTSA id# 11301634.
Driving on the 101 freeway in santa barbara. Road was wet after a light rain at around 6:30am. Was in the middle lane, very light traffic, on a wide curve. Was not speeding, accelerating, braking or steering. Was not using autopilot. Tires had 11,000 miles and tread was still good. Car all of a sudden spun out of control, turning 180 degrees and crashed against a concrete center divider. I have a video saved from the car's cameras of the entire accident. You can see a car preceding me in the same lane at a similar speed, was not affected. When driving the Tesla on other raining days during the year I had the sensation that the car did not handle well on wet roads, slipping when accelerating. The insurance now owns the car so I don't have access to the black box but I know that Tesla has the data from the crash which they are not sharing with me. The called me 10 minutes after the crash noting that I had crashed and asked me if I was ok. A short video of the crash is available here: https://youtu. Be/gyqyxgeot94 I have video from the other cameras too, as well as video footage before this segment.
I want to both report and complain about an incident that happened with me on December 14, 2019. I was traveling with my wife and two kids from vancouver, wa to my residence [xxx]. I was driving my Tesla Model 3 (bmx 2571) and the days before the car had a new update installed (that included improvements to wipers using some ai improvements). There was strong rain while driving on the I-5 freeway. The traffic speed was 70 mph. I was in the middle of a huge pack of cars all moving at the ~ 70 mph. What we encountered was- a) first wipers got locked (no movement et all), this reduced my visibility to almost zero and struggling to maneuver the car in the high speed traffic to avoid any accident. B) the car then went in some shutdown mode of display, both confusing me and leaving adrift as to how to handle the situation. It took both my wife and me some heroic effort to drive avoiding any accident until the car recovered (it was a period of ~30 sec which sounded like eternity for us) from this freeze, shutdown, and reboot. You can verify my claim as I did file a 'bug report' around that time. When talking of the anomalies, I have also seen that on freeways the autopilot has tried to put brakes all of a sudden in the past, thus creating life threatening situations. At all these occasions, I had filed 'bug reports' to help Tesla. However, latest incident is beyond my wildest imagination and concerning with respect to the safety of life while traveling in a Tesla car. Best, [xxx] information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u. S. C. 552(b)(6).
1. We picked up the car on Dec 30th, from the fremont factory, the car was not even fully charged, and there was a message on the console saying, that, 'it needs a software upgrade. ' we went back inside and asked one of the sales people, he said, 'this is the end of the year, the cars are not coming fully charged, and he laughed about the software upgrade. ' we came home and upgraded the software. No-one went over the operations of the car. 2. On Jan 1st, the 30 day trial for the autopilot feature popped up on the console, and we clicked yes. We decided to try the auto-trial feature in the evening from santa cruz to our home. We enabled the auto-pilot on route 880, it kept asking to keep your hands lightly on the steering wheel, while the hands were on the steering wheel at all times. After maybe 10 minutes, in the centre line, at a speed of 63 mph, red warning started saying, 'the car can no longer auto steer. ' we canceled the autopilot, manually drove the car. On local street on mowry avenue, between 6:30 pm and 7 pm, while driving, the car in front of us slowed down, removed the foot from the accelerator, car continue to accelerate, while the brake pedal was pressed. No collision warning, and car kept going until it ran into the next car and stopped. We pulled over and assessed the damage, our car has small nick on the center of the bumper. 3. Arrived home, with about 80 miles charge left. After plugging in the charger, about 15 minutes later, message on the phone came that charging interrupted, as it has 78% of charge on the battery. Additionally, these are the some of the other concerns, -rattling noise on the right side during driving -while driving slowly at about 5 miles an hour, there is a brake noise -there is wind leak on both front windows and doors. -right rear seat belt does not always lock.