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.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
120 points (100.0% liked)
Electric Vehicles
1366 readers
272 users here now
Overview:
Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.
Related communities:
- !automotive@discuss.tchncs.de
- !avs@futurology.today
- !byd@lemmy.world
- !ebike@lemm.ee
- !energy@slrpnk.net
- !geely@lemmy.world
- !micromobility@lemmy.world
- !polestar@lemmy.ca
- !rivian@lemmy.zip
- !teslamotors@lemmy.zip
- !xiaomi@lemdro.id
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
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.
First time using adaptive cruise control tech? I thought that was all part of the tradeoff with adaptive cruise. Hell my semi truck gets a false positive every now and then
The car is driving itself. You cannot 100% expect it to be perfect. Like when people were following GPS when it first came out and then driving themselves into a pond.
I hate that this shit is on the road. I can't imagine if every time the false alarm brake warning went off in my work car itslammed on the brakes. Well. Yes I can. And I'd switch to a different vehicle if I could if that was a thing.
in addition to driving through images of a road and mauling mannequins dressed as kids in most poor weather scenarios, it brakes when there is nothing to hit...