Tesla Class Action launched on “Braking Phantom”
The action comes at a time when Tesla was swept away Increasingly negative perception Of his CEO Elon Musk, also the richest person in the world, who has been accused of helping the President of the United States Donald Trump to dismantle the government and the nation regulation system. The stickers for bumpers appeared by explaining that the owners are pulled to support the billionaire, while some High profile Tesla owners They passed to other brands.
Tesla was swept away by the increasingly negative perception of his CEO Elon Musk.
The Teslas are the most popular cars powered by battery in Australia, but have faced a constant controversy on the autopilota, culminating in the call of over 2 million vehicles in 2023 after a United States security agency considered the system dangerous.
Tesla vehicles are equipped with “basic automatic pilot”, which will check the steering inside a lane and maintain a speed while monitoring the traffic and applying the brakes as needed. This is the functionality presumably guilty as regards “Braking Phantom”, which has been documented by Tesla online users since 2016.
In an example Posted on YouTube Last year from the United States, a Tesla traveling along a road enrollment without other cars nearby seems to quickly apply the brakes alone, reducing the speed from 112 km per hour to 72 km per hour in about five seconds. There are many less extreme examples recently published like this month.
A legal complaint was filed for the first time on this problem in the United States in 2022, finally becoming a class action that the alleged Tesla was aware but obscured the problem, with consequent insurance premium collection when the cars recorded false proximity warnings. Tesla applied to bring out the case, but in December last year he declared a judge It could go on with changes. In particular, the statement according to which Tesla has hidden the defect of ghost braking is still foreseen to be tested in court.
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Tesla also offers further autonomous features at an additional cost when buying a car, but many of the features are not active and are awaiting development or regulatory approval. In Australia, you can pay $ 5100 for the “improved automatic pilot” which includes autonomous parking and could in the future include the possibility of evoking the car in your position. For $ 10,100 you can get “complete self -control”, which could manage the car in the future with a minimum driver input.
While Tesla advertises its range estimates with many warnings, the new class action claims that they are systematically overrated. A Reuters report in 2023 I found that complaints About the range it was so numerous that Tesla has set up a “diversion team” specifically to cancel the range of service appointments so that it is not overwhelmed.
Tesla was contacted for a comment.
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