As Elon Musk departs the White House and shifts his attention back to Tesla, he's now facing the fury of Australian drivers who are suing the electric car company over faults including phantom braking.
You learn how your car behaves with this tech and it stops being a surprise not long after you get used to it.
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As someone who had one of these bullshit phantom brake Tesla’s - it’s random and chaotic. Like you have no way of knowing when it will or won’t slam the brakes for no reason. I stopped using it not long into having the car before I sold it.
I bought a MachE that doesn’t do it and I’m legit way happier.
Well, I’ve heard anecdotes from other drivers about how it happens to them, and I know it happens to me with my Subaru. I’m glad your Toyota doesn’t do it. I wonder if more recent ones do or if they just avoided the problem altogether.
My Pacifica does this all the time. It’s because a car in front of you turns quickly and your car can’t process the charge fast enough so to be safe it pretends the car is still there. It’s the whole reason you are supposed to stay alert so you can make the corrections.
But the Tesla is advertised as full self driving and this is happening, meanwhile my Pacifica is just advertised as adaptive cruise so the Tesla is worse.
This happens with all adaptive cruise control vehicles sometimes. I’m anti-Tesla as much as the next person, but this isn’t a Tesla problem.
Yes and no.
You learn how your car behaves with this tech and it stops being a surprise not long after you get used to it.
However
As someone who had one of these bullshit phantom brake Tesla’s - it’s random and chaotic. Like you have no way of knowing when it will or won’t slam the brakes for no reason. I stopped using it not long into having the car before I sold it.
I bought a MachE that doesn’t do it and I’m legit way happier.
I’ve had my 2019 Toyota Rav4 since 2019.
There has never been any phantom braking.
Nor have I experienced it in any other adaptive cruise control cars I’ve rented.
Well, I’ve heard anecdotes from other drivers about how it happens to them, and I know it happens to me with my Subaru. I’m glad your Toyota doesn’t do it. I wonder if more recent ones do or if they just avoided the problem altogether.
It’s very rare for me, maybe twice in 8 years, but it happens.
My Pacifica does this all the time. It’s because a car in front of you turns quickly and your car can’t process the charge fast enough so to be safe it pretends the car is still there. It’s the whole reason you are supposed to stay alert so you can make the corrections.
But the Tesla is advertised as full self driving and this is happening, meanwhile my Pacifica is just advertised as adaptive cruise so the Tesla is worse.