Incident #208·AI Safety & Failures
Tesla Phantom Braking Complaints Surged, Allegedly Linked to Tesla Vision Rollout
Explainability
Description
In late 2021, Tesla owners’ complaints to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about sudden unexpected automatic braking rapidly increased, coinciding with when radar was no longer equipped in its Model 3 and Model Y vehicles.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- tesla
Alleged Developers
- tesla
Harmed Parties
- tesla-drivers
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
MIT Risk Profile
AIUnintentionalPost-deployment
Topics
Explainability
Source
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