Recently, according to foreign media reports, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is currently evaluating the potential safety hazards and risks of Tesla models " ghost brakes " , because in the past three months , the department has received as many as 107 complaints from such car owners, compared with only 34 in the previous 22 months.
Phantom braking is actually the result of the car's automatic braking technology, which allows the vehicle to start the automatic braking at a very fast speed when necessary. The "ghost brake" has been plaguing Tesla for a long time, especially since the brand's self-driving assist and fully autonomous driving test system have received extra attention from U.S. safety organizations.
That's partly because Tesla has eliminated radar sensing devices in its cars and announced that it will rely only on camera imaging systems in the future. Previously, after Consumer Reports and the United States Highway Safety Insurance Association (IIHS) re-evaluated cars using pure vision technology, they retracted the previous recommendation that vehicles should be equipped with radar sensing devices.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said in the past that the ghost brake problem will disappear after the vehicle removes the radar. However, judging by the recent complaints of Tesla owners, this wish does not seem to have materialized. An NHTSA spokesperson recently said: "NHTSA is aware of receiving complaints about the forward collision avoidance feature of Tesla models and is reviewing such complaints based on a risk assessment process." If the data shows that there may be a risk, NHTSA will take immediate action. ”
However, it is worth noting that although the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will investigate the "ghost brake" problem, it does not mean that tesla models really have related safety risks, because NHTSA's complaints are completely public and relatively free, so regardless of whether the user's car really has a similar situation, it can feedback to the department, and only if there are too many complaints, NHTSA will further study whether it is a serious safety incident.
Tesla recalled about 12,000 vehicles in October 2021 due to similar problems. The company said that while it had not received any reports of collisions caused by the problem, the "ghost brakes" had the potential to increase the likelihood of rear-end collisions.
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