{"id":13592,"date":"2022-08-31T14:39:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/31\/tesla-slapped-with-class-action-lawsuit-over-phantom-braking-problem\/"},"modified":"2022-08-31T14:39:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:39:15","slug":"tesla-slapped-with-class-action-lawsuit-over-phantom-braking-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/31\/tesla-slapped-with-class-action-lawsuit-over-phantom-braking-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla slapped with class action lawsuit over phantom braking problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/30\/23328836\/tesla-phantom-braking-problem-class-action-lawsuit\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/30\/23328836\/tesla-phantom-braking-problem-class-action-lawsuit<\/a><br \/>\n<code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<div readability=\"83.822626695218\">\n<p id=\"wkJOQc\">A Tesla owner from San Francisco filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the electric vehicle company over a phantom braking problem that he claims has turned \u201ca safety feature into a frightening and dangerous nightmare.\u201d The lawsuit was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/tesla-hit-with-proposed-class-action-over-phantom-braking-issue-2022-08-29\/\">first reported by <em>Reuters<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p id=\"A9zrUG\">The lawsuit was filed by San Francisco resident Jose Alvarez Toledo in federal court in the Northern District of California. In the complaint, Toledo estimates that there are \u201chundreds of thousands\u201d of Tesla customers that could seek to join his class action suit against the company. <\/p>\n<p id=\"hvFfwc\">The lawsuit accuses Tesla of fraudulently hiding the safety risks associated with the company\u2019s Autopilot driver assist system, breaching its warranties, unfairly profiting from Autopilot, and violating California\u2019s unfair competition law. Toledo is seeking punitive damages. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-float-right\">\n<aside id=\"52fYHb\"><q>The lawsuit accuses Tesla of fraudulently hiding the safety risks associated with the company\u2019s Autopilot driver assist system<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"qrK45O\">\u201cMany Tesla owners have reported significant, unexpected slow-downs and stops due to the false engagement of their Class Vehicle\u2019s braking systems, even though no objects were nearby,\u201d the lawsuit reads. \u201cWhen the Sudden Unintended Braking Defect Occurs, they turn what is supposed to be a safety feature into a frightening and dangerous nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"8UDPTy\">The lawsuit comes as Tesla <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/6\/3\/23153241\/tesla-phantom-braking-nhtsa-complaints-investigation\">faces a federal investigation<\/a> into its phantom braking problem, which first surfaced last fall. Those reports emerged just as Tesla was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/10\/24\/22743628\/elon-musk-tesla-fsd-beta-10-3-rollback-issues-phantom-fcw\">forced to roll back version 10.3 of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta software<\/a>, the company\u2019s advanced driver assist system, because of issues with forward collision warnings and unexpected braking.<\/p>\n<p id=\"MwGtkc\">After the rollback, the number of complaints actually increased substantially, with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration receiving at least 107 from November to January, compared with only 34 in the preceding 22 months, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/02\/02\/tesla-phantom-braking\/?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_campaign=wp_main&#038;utm_medium=social\">according to <em>The<\/em> <em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p id=\"MF0IEq\">In February, NHTSA began investigating incidents involving Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles after receiving 354 complaints. And in May, the agency fired off a 14-page \u201crequest for information\u201d letter to Tesla, in which it updated its complaint tally to 758. <\/p>\n<p id=\"6ZrQNP\">NHTSA\u2019s Office of Defects Investigation opened a \u201cpreliminary evaluation,\u201d which is the stage before the agency could issue a formal recall and covers approximately 416,000 vehicles. To date, there have been no reports of crashes, injuries, or fatalities as a result of this issue.<\/p>\n<p id=\"3kgNuZ\">The problem may be traced to the decision last year by Tesla to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/5\/25\/22453518\/tesla-vision-radar-autopilot-model-3-y-fsd\">remove radar sensors from new Model 3 and Model Y vehicles<\/a>. The decision came after Tesla CEO Elon Musk publicly expressed a desire to rely exclusively on cameras to power the company\u2019s advanced driver assistance system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/30\/23328836\/tesla-phantom-braking-problem-class-action-lawsuit\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/30\/23328836\/tesla-phantom-braking-problem-class-action-lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: A Tesla owner from San Francisco filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the electric vehicle company over a phantom braking problem that he claims has turned \u201ca safety feature into a frightening and dangerous nightmare.\u201d The lawsuit was first reported by Reuters. 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