Car Accelerates On Its Own problems of the 2015 Tesla Model S

On January 2, 2019 between 1:45 and 2 pm I drove from my house into a clinic parking lot. As I drove my 2015 Tesla Model S forward and steered to the right into a parking spot, I consciously eased my right foot off from the accelerator pedal, thus lowering my speed from 10-9 mph to about 5-6 mph. The brake pedal was not pressed, allowing regenerative breaking to slow down the vehicle. About a second into the parking turn, the vehicle suddenly jolted forward, accelerating unexpectedly. I felt as if the brakes failed to work when I reflexively removed my right foot from the accelerator, and stomped the brake pedal as hard as I could. My vehicle came to a stop only after colliding with a Chevrolet sports utility vehicle parked in the spot across. As I regained my bearings, I caught myself still flooring the brake pedal with my right foot, and continued to floor it until I after I had shifted it into parking gear, and made sure there was nobody walking in the vicinity. The impact from the Tesla Model S bumped the Chevrolet SUV parked in front about 5 feet back. The Model S itself stopped between 2-3 feet into the next parking space, slightly into the opposing parking space on the right side, as seen in the included photos. This would indicate the brakes **eventually** worked. Had they not, the Tesla would have been expected to roll forward and into the SUV's bumper after the collision. This is called Tesla creep mode, which I have enabled (slowly roll forward while no pedal is pressed). I asked the police officer to position his patrol car behind my vehicle before I moved it and advised the police officer I did not trust the car. I used an app to call for a tow through my insurance, but the tow's number was disconnected. I was able to drive off with the patrol car in escort.

The contact owns a 2015 Tesla Model S. While driving 65-70 mph for thirty minutes with the auto pilot engaged, the vehicle spontaneously accelerated without warning. The contact crashed into the rear of a 2015 Toyota prius. The air bags deployed. There were no injuries and a police report was filed. The vehicle was towed to an independent lot. The contact called Tesla (6701 amador plaza rd, dublin, CA 94568, (925) 361-1173) and informed them of the failure. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was contacted and did not assist. The failure mileage was 48,000.

My tersla experienced a sudden acceleration event on July 31, 2019. It was being parked in a target parking lot about to be put in park when it suddenly experienced a full acceleration. It jumped over a 6 to 8 foot wide concrete meridian, took out a bush and hit a parked pick-up, moving it about 15 feet and totaling the truck. The car had almost $40,000 in damage and the driver was injured. Telsa first said they would have their read out in one week then 3, then 4 - finally after about 4 months they said it was driver error but the driver denies touching the gas or brake. She was already stopped and it happened so fast she didn't have time to react.

As I parked my car in my garage on 1/19/2019, I had placed the car in park and was preparing to exit the vehicle when it suddenly accelerated and hit the front of my garage wall. The car was in park and not moving. I had my hand on the door handle to exit. I immediately slammed the breaks but the car seemed to keep going into my wall and then it jolted and stopped. It was like it had a mind of its own. There was no alert or anything. It just suddenly accelerated while in park. As you can imagine this is a very scary occurrence and I am not going to drive this vehicle until it is rendered safe. I'm very concerned with what could happen if this occurred in a parking lot or area with people. I contacted Tesla immediately following the incident to file a report and share my concern. They told me they would pull logs and be in touch. I also called my insurance company. The incident happened at 5:50 pm.

While pulling into a perpendicular parking spot in a parking garage, at ~4-5 feet from a wall, the car experienced sudden acceleration, slamming into the wall, resulting in moderate body damage to the front of the car and deploying the driver-side airbags. There were no other passengers in the car, and there was no significant injury or damage to the garage or other cars. Though I recognize that the vast majority of accidents of this type are due to driver error, there are several factors that leave me with concern for a possible electronic systems malfunction. Specifically, ~3 days prior to the accident, the car began displaying a constant error message: 'driver assistance features unavailable". I notified Tesla service by phone and email, and on their instructions, rebooted the computer system, and fully powered down and restarted the system. However, the error message persisted. The accident occurred before I was able to schedule a service call. I have requested details from the data logs for the accident from Tesla, but they have provided only very limited information, stating that legal action on my part would be required to obtain more detail. They have told me that the car speed was 3. 6 mph at which time the data indicates that the accelerator was pressed to as far as 100%, resulting in acceleration of the car to 7 mph at the time of impact, with this acceleration occurring over a 2 second time period. This information seems incompatible with the otherwise rapid acceleration typically exhibited by this car with a fully depressed accelerator, and the short distance traveled (only several feet).