NHTSA Complaint #11587792 — 2023 TESLA MODEL Y

FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL issue reported to NHTSA

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Complaint Details

ODI Number	11587792
Vehicle	2023 TESLA MODEL Y
Component	FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
Date of Incident	May 8, 2024
Date Filed	May 9, 2024
Mileage	N/A miles
Crash	No
Fire	No
Injuries	0
Deaths	0
Vehicle Towed	No
State	CO

Consumer Description

While driving on the highway at 75mph, with "Traffic Aware Cruise Control" (aka, "Adaptive Cruise Control") enabled, a white napkin had blown into the lane ahead. This caused the car to slam on the brakes, and rapidly reduce speed to 20 mph, before I was able to re-accelerate back up to speed. I consider this a dangerous malfunction of the Adaptive Cruise Control system (and possibly the Automatic Emergency Braking system as well) on a high speed lane on a highway, which easily could have resulted in a high speed rear end collision and injury. (Fortunately, there wasn't any traffic close behind in the the lane.)

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