Car Accelerates On Its Own problems of the 2018 Tesla Model X

The car suddenly accelerated on its own as I was slowly entering a parking space in a supermarket parking lot and hit the car that was parked in the space in front of me.

Note: I am not a Tesla short seller, I am real owner, driver of Tesla for the last 19 + months. 1. Sudden acceleration happened many times during autopilot, vehicle doesn't decelerate even when another vehicle is in front, I had to take control from autropilot with this sudden acceleration and I apply brake. This has been many many times at different locations (freeways ~65mph, expressways ~45/50mph speeds). I did not apply any gas pedal/other techniques to increase the speed, but the vehicle suddenly without any intervention speeds up, I was terrified with this and took control from autopilot. Contacted Tesla earlier regarding this, but their poor customer service, service center did not help much. 2. Automatic emergency braking. . . Which is supposed to stop if any objects infront, does not stop. Its just the visible clear objects, vehcile does not stop even at lower, higher speeds. I request NHTSA to kindly take note of these issues with Teslas and appreciate your action in this regard.

Edit/additional note to my earlier complaint number: 11300604, this sudden acceleration with Tesla happen when using with/without auto pilot, I observed many times during (a). This unintended acceleration happen even when driving normally without auto pilot, though I am not pressing gas pedal, especially observed in the city road speeds around 30-45 mph, whn using auto pilot on freeways, this happened arounbd 55-70mph speeds too. (b). Also this unintended acceleration happen when battery is at 20-40% of range. (c). Also happen whenver there is a new software update, this unitended acceleration popped up many occasions(don't remember exact times) as if some software bug resurfaced and I used to take control of the vehcile having been alert all the time. Reported this over email, talked to service center, but no concrete action from Tesla end.

My Model X was traveling at low speed as it was near home. Before entering the curve, the x suddenly accelerated out of control. It first crashed into my other parked car in front of my house, pushing the parked car into my garage. Then it continued to hit a city light pole, breaking it at the base. The x continued to hit my next door neighbor's two cars parked outside of their home, damaging their garage. The car finally stop when it hit the wall of third neighbor' that divide up her driveway. Tesla roadside support contacted me on the day of the incident because they were able to see my airbag was deployed and may require assistance. I requested Tesla to review the log of the car and explain why the car suddenly accelerated out of control. When I followed up that first week they acknowledged my request in an email and told me that the request is with their engineering team and it may take a while before they will have any response. However, as of today, I haven't heard from their engineering team.

On Nov 17, 2018 at 4:50 pm, I was driving my Tesla x slowly with auto pilot off and auto steer off on a surface street in san clemente, CA. I was trying to do a u turn. I verified that there was no traffic, that there was an area where cars were not parked on the left side of the street and could use a parking driveway on the right that will allow more space to perform the u turn. I gently pressed the break to further slowdown and then veered a little to the right into the driveway at less than 5 mph. I started to turn to the left while still gently pressing the break. As soon as the front right wheel left the driveway and before I had completed the u turn, the Tesla all of a sudden, on its own spontaneously accelerated to full power (a Tesla x can go from 0-60 miles in approx. 4 seconds). My foot was still on the break, I did not move it and therefore I did not press the accelerator. There were no objects obstructing the pedals. In a small fraction of a second, the Tesla traveled at full speed towards the tacoma car parked ahead on the left (less than 20 feet). Something in the Tesla system triggered the sudden spontaneous full acceleration resulting in this collision. The Tesla had major damage in the front, the air bags were deployed. I had a major bruise on my abdomen and several small bruises on my chest. The tacoma suffered damage in the front, moved backwards and hit the car parked behind it. There were no passengers in the other vehicles. It is my firm belief that this accident occurred due not to a driver's error but to a technological error within the Tesla vehicle. I found more than 60 complaints for spontaneous sudden acceleration for Tesla vehicles that have been filed to NHTSA. What these complaints have in common are that vehicles are traveling slowly trying to park or make turns at low speed when sudden spontaneous full acceleration was triggered.

While in a parking lot at low speed and coming around a turn to park, Tesla suddenly accelerated from low speed to high speed hitting a pole. Airbags deployed. Sudden acceleration was without warning. Severe damage to car. Luckily no pedestrians were nearby.