2022 AUDI Q4 E-TRON Forward Collision Avoidance Automatic Emergency Braking Problems
1 NHTSA complaint on file
Forward Collision Avoidance Automatic Emergency Braking Issues in the 2022 AUDI Q4 E-TRON
1 forward collision avoidance automatic emergency braking complaint has been filed with NHTSA for the 2022 AUDI Q4 E-TRON. Of these, 1 involved a crash, 0 involved a fire, and 0 resulted in injury.
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All Forward Collision Avoidance Automatic Emergency Braking Complaints
As I was coasting into a parking space perpendicular to a curb, sidewalk, and store fronts, about a foot from the curb, the engine ROARED and rapidly accelerated. I removed my foot from the pedal and crashed into a pole supporting the canopy over the sidewalk. The impact was so great that the airbags deployed and the car bounced back onto the parking lot. Several lights on the dash illuminated while this happened and I definitely saw "Electrical Malfunction". The only way I could think to turn the engine off was to force the door open. My cat was in her hard sided carrier on the front passenger seat and the impact and air bags broke the carrier and she was ejected. Clearly the Pre-Sense Front collision warning/avoidance system did not function properly during this unintended acceleration. I am convinced that had there not been a sturdy pole directly in...