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Driving a rented Tesla Y, this became the most dangerous part of using the highway autopilot. The phantom braking seemed to trigger sometimes by going under an
by cypherpunks01 5y ago
Driving a rented Tesla Y, this became the most dangerous part of using the highway autopilot. The phantom braking seemed to trigger sometimes by going under an overpass, or when lighting contrast was high, but it definitely happened a couple times for no discernible reason at all in good conditions, and had no regard for traffic behind the vehicle when suddenly braking really hard out of nowhere.
- nlowell 5y agoOverpass phantom braking has been getting reported by drivers for years. IIRC Tesla's solution was to mark those overpass locations in some special hexmap so that the cars would then just not brake there. I don't have a source for that, though. I would hope Tesla can solve phantom braking because that could certainly be causing accidents out there.
- pkulak 5y agoThis is nuts. I rented a Model 3 several years ago and had to stop using autopilot because the phantom breaking, which is really phantom _panic_ breaking, was so dangerous and terrifying. How has this not been solved? I've used lane keeping in many other cars since then and never once had an incorrect breaking event.