Cruise Control problems of the 2016 Tesla Model S

The emmc flash memory is failing, leading to the main screen blacking out for several minutes happens randomly while driving and when at stop and when the car is booting up. This prevents adjustment of several components including climate control, manual lighting, cruise control/autopilot, music it has been happening for over a month, progressively getting worse. Service came out to just reset the 12v and update the software and said everything is good but it definitely is not because its getting worse day by day.

The emmc flash memory is failing, leading to the main screen blacking out for several minutes both while driving and when at stop and when the car is booting up. This prevents adjustment of several components including climate (fans, defog, ac), manual lighting, cruise control/autopilot, etc. It has been happening for over a month, progressively getting worse. Tesla is telling us we have to replace the flash memory (~$500, but there is no guarantee the problem won't reoccur), or replace or upgrade the mcu (~$1500-2500). The car was recently upgraded to full self drive hardware (paid for in 2016) and others have reported that this contributes to the memory dying, so we contend this design flaw should be repaired by Tesla for free.

I was approaching a stop sign with my foot lifted above both pedals (brake and accelerator) when my car accelerated forward. I had always thought that most of these unintended accelerations were due to a driver hitting the accelerator pedal instead of the brake pedal so I noted that my foot was not resting or pressing on either pedal. I put it down on the brake pedal and the car stopped, but this should never have happened. I had no cruise control or steering aid activated. I also have 'creep mode' turned off.

On 1/18/20, I was travelling in my 2016 Tesla Model S p100d eastward on anderson hill road toward the intersection with purchase street. The stop light was red. I was driving 1mi under the speed limit of 35mph. The outside temperature was around freezing, and a wet snow had begun 5-10min earlier, with minimal accumulation. I know exactly how fast I was going because I had cruise control on. I was not on autopilot. Just cruise control. When the intersection and stop light came into view, I tapped the break to disengage the cruise control, and then depressed the break to slow the car. Nothing happened. The breaks would not engage. And neither did the regenerative breaking. I do not feel that I was skidding or sliding. It simply felt as if the car had no idea I wanted to brake. It was very very strange. In those few seconds it became clear to me there was a good chance I would be dead shortly. As it happens, I was struck broadside by a large suburban travelling northbound on purchase street perhaps 25 miles an hour. Both he and I seem to have emerged relatively unscathed (physically, anyway) thank god. But I want to know what happened to my car. Can you please contact Tesla and demand all the information from the cars computers - and their computers at hq - so we can find out??? what happened was extremely dangerous, and could have killed both me nd others. To summarize: brake failure, both manual and degenerative, in 2016 Tesla Model S caused massive collision with both cars totalled.

Driving on a 2 lane highway using autopilot the car accelerated and pulled left, ended up in the opposite lane and almost off road over a cliff. This is not the first incident I had with my Tesla. On several occasions, while using cruise control, it suddenly braked in the middle of the highway, while the immediate collision alarm went off. There were no vehicles in front of mine and no immediate risk for collision. Tesla needs to improve the autopilot features as there are significant safety concerns.

Failure of vehicle to engage automatic emergency braking or apply adaptive cruise control braking in repsonse to a vehicle abruptly stopping ahead. Vehicle had adaptive cruise engaged at 57 mph on interstate highway and an acc sensitivity of 2. Vehicle forward collision warning did alert. This failure resulted in a rear-end collision with the car ahead.

This Sunday may 20 I was driving my Tesla Model S southbound on route 1 in rehoboth to work in autopilot mode. I had this feature of my vehicle set to 50 mph. If you aren't familiar with autopilot in Tesla's, let me explain how it works. Once the vehicle indicates the feature can be activated, you press a button as you would any other vehicle with basic cruise control, and the car will literally accelerate, decelerate, and steer itself without further input from the driver. While using this feature of my vehicle, I had a significant accident on route 1. As I said, my vehicle was traveling at a rate of 50 mph. I was driving in the left lane southbound with autopilot activated. In turnabout in the median, a white pickup was perpendicular to my car with sticking out about 1 ft into my lane. The left side of my car skimmed the back of his car without slowing down. Autopilot failed to recognize the car was there. I am lucky I wasn't killed, and I am lucky no one else was hurt. This accident has shaken me up quite a bit. Now, I do not blame Tesla 100% for this auto accident; I don't plan to file a legal claim against them or anything like that. In fact, I plan on replacing my vehicle with another Tesla (without the said autopilot features) but I would be doing a disservice to anyone without trying to use this experience of mine to hopefully save lives in the future. I brought these exact issues up with Tesla regarding my accident several times to several different departments and my concerns have been totally dismissed. If regulation for features like these in vehicles is not implemented, unfortunately I have no doubt in my mind people will be hurt and possibly killed,.