Blind Spot Detection problems of the 2026 Tesla Model Y

Yesterday evening, my wife and I had friends over to our house, and we were excited to show them our new Tesla. We offered to take them on a short drive around town using the full self-driving (supervised) feature. At approximately 8:00 pm, we entered the address of our local sam's club as the destination. As the vehicle approached sam's club, it entered the parking lot through the gas station entrance, which appeared to be the expected route. However, instead of proceeding to a parking space, the vehicle unexpectedly continued driving and attempted to make another loop toward the gas station entrance. At that moment, an SUV was exiting the gas station. The Tesla steered toward the SUV and then continued toward a brick wall where there was no roadway. It appeared the vehicle was attempting to drive into an area that was not a valid path. I immediately disengaged full self-driving, took manual control of the vehicle, and reversed to avoid what could have been a collision with both the SUV and the brick wall. The occupants of the other vehicles were understandably upset because the situation appeared unsafe. This was a very dangerous situation that placed my wife, our friends, and me at risk. Had I not intervened immediately, the incident could have resulted in a collision causing property damage or personal injury. I am reporting this event so your engineering team can investigate the behavior and improve the full self-driving software. I hope this information helps identify and correct this issue to improve the safety of the system for all Tesla owners and the public.

While my vehicle was operating in full self-driving (fsd) mode, it encountered an accident upon attempting to park in my garage. The collision resulted in substantial damage to the driver’s side rear end and the garage wall. Notably, there was no manual intervention during the entire journey from my son’s school and the parking attempt. The fsd system failed to detect the proximity of the garage and did not initiate braking or provide any warning before impacting the wall. In this instance, the fsd system exhibited multiple failures. I have subsequently reported the incident to Tesla.

There are two major safety issues that came with the vehicle upon the new car delivery. The problems existed even before the delivery as I found the first issue during the new car delivery and the second issue upon leaving the delivery center. First is the non-operational fsd (full self driving). Fsd never worked from the beginning. The Tesla advisor noticed it at the delivery center but insisted that it will work after 10 minutes of driving, needing calibration. However, after more than several hours of driving and 35 miles of driving, fsd still doesn't work and the display says fsd is non-functional. Second is the lane departure and lane approach sensor. When the neighboring car approaches from the side, there is no alert or notification. The blind spot sensor doesn't work either. This is a big safety issue and I almost got into an accident had I looked back and noticed a car approching from behind when I tried to move into the right lane. I expalined both of these two major issues with the vehicle and left the car at the service center in vienna, va, expecting the repair to be done within hours as promised. However, the service technician later sent a message via Tesla app that the part is missing from the car and the part needs to be ordered. It's been a full day and Tesla is still in the process of finding the issue, which means they still don't know what the issue is. I belive this is not the quality of product and testing that has been registered with Tesla in NHTSA. This surely represents the sub-par quality product and lack of full testing that needs to be done prior to the new car delivery. The service center employee responded via app that the car needs to in repair for 5 full days and may need more time if necessary. This is definitely not the quality and experience that are advertised by Tesla.

On January 20, around 9:35 am, phoenix time, I had the car in self-driving mode for a left-hand turn at the intercession of camino real and river road in tucson, arizona. A real-time view shows that it’s a tricky and dangerous left-hand turn. For the past 3 weeks, the car navigated it well, waiting until it was perfectly safe to do so. Today, however, the car moved quickly and unexpectedly into the center of river road, narrowly escaping a head on collision with a west-bound car, and then paused, squeezed in between west and east-bound lanes when I tapped the brake and took the wheel. Everything happened so quickly. I made the left turn into the east-bound lane, but, looking back, I don’t know how an accident didn’t occur, as traffic was still moving in east-bound lanes rapidly. There must have been enough distance between two cars at just the right time, that nothing hit me.