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2024 Tesla Model S driver assist problems

34 of the 78 complaints about the 2024 Tesla Model S are about the driver-assist systems — 44% of everything reported for this model year.

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Complaints

0

Crashes

0

Fires

0

Injuries

Exactly what failed

Assist 17 50.0%
Warning 15 44.1%
Adaptive Cruise Control 2 5.9%

Driver Assist & Collision Avoidance across every Tesla Model S year

2013 17 2.6%
2014 17 2.6%
2015 73 11.0%
2016 91 13.7%
2017 133 20.0%
2018 84 12.6%
2019 20 3.0%
2020 37 5.6%
2021 77 11.6%
2022 51 7.7%
2023 32 4.8%
2024 34 5.1%

What owners said

Filed with NHTSA, in their own words.

Durham, NC

LANE DEPARTURE: WARNING

Sometimes while making ordinary and safe traffic maneuvers the Lane Departure Warning system sometimes emits a very loud, distracting, and startling emergency chime. In particular it does this while turning into parking garages or driveways, which are already high-workload moments with high likelihood of nearby pedestrians and other vulnerable road users.

NHTSA complaint #11687621 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: ASSIST

While FSD was engaged. It made a sudden aggressive, swerving maneuver with no warning towards the cars next to us, sounded alarms, and then forcefully disengaged nearly causing an accident

NHTSA complaint #11645936 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL

Speed offset is set to 10% but it keeps setting the max speed 40% higher, and then furthermore exceeds this max speed

NHTSA complaint #11645730 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: ASSIST

When turning right from [XXX] onto [XXX] using my blinker, it sounded three beeps and jerked the wheel left towards the pedestrians in the crosswalk and the turning cars coming from [XXX] onto [XXX]. I was allegedly driving manually, but the car decided to override my input autonomously. INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6)

NHTSA complaint #11644993 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL

“Full self driving” was sitting at a red light at 5:07 PM and observed a light a block ahead of us turn green and accelerated through the red light with no warning or time to react

NHTSA complaint #11636970 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: ASSIST

“Full self driving” was sitting at a red light at 5:07 PM and observed a light a block ahead of us turn green and accelerated through the red light with no warning or time to react

NHTSA complaint #11636970 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: WARNING

10:12am 12/6/2024 autopilot randomly and suddenly starts jerking wheel back amd forth erratically and swerves all iver road onto wrong side of road. When i grab wheel to disengage it sounds alarms and alleges im departing my lane and activates lane departure/ assist despite the fact i have lane departure assist disabled

NHTSA complaint #11629236 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: ASSIST

10:12am 12/6/2024 autopilot randomly and suddenly starts jerking wheel back amd forth erratically and swerves all iver road onto wrong side of road. When i grab wheel to disengage it sounds alarms and alleges im departing my lane and activates lane departure/ assist despite the fact i have lane departure assist disabled

NHTSA complaint #11629236 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: WARNING

3:17pm nov 18 2024 - I was driving manually and pulled into my driveway and subsequently my garage. I had the blinker on. As I went to turn into the garage, I heard three beeps and no message was displayed on the screen. The vehicle also jerked the steering wheel towards the wall. I have all lane departure warnings, and assistance settings turned off.

NHTSA complaint #11626018 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: ASSIST

3:17pm nov 18 2024 - I was driving manually and pulled into my driveway and subsequently my garage. I had the blinker on. As I went to turn into the garage, I heard three beeps and no message was displayed on the screen. The vehicle also jerked the steering wheel towards the wall. I have all lane departure warnings, and assistance settings turned off.

NHTSA complaint #11626018 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: WARNING

10:33am driving manually very safely blinker on 5mph to turn into driveway. As i turn, sounds 3 beeps and displays “vehicle departing lane” on screen.

NHTSA complaint #11625689 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: ASSIST

Oct 31 4:03pm blinker on turning into gus’ parking garage off noriega I have lane departure disabled, am manually driving under 15mph, and use proper blinker but this “safety feature” causes it to “jerk” the wheel and display warnings to the detriment of safety. This affects the entire fleet and was never an issue before around 2022-2023.

NHTSA complaint #11623017 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: WARNING

Oct 31 4:03pm blinker on turning into gus’ parking garage off noriega I have lane departure disabled, am manually driving under 15mph, and use proper blinker but this “safety feature” causes it to “jerk” the wheel and display warnings to the detriment of safety. This affects the entire fleet and was never an issue before around 2022-2023.

NHTSA complaint #11623017 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: WARNING

Oct 31 9:48am my blinker on taking on ramp to highway and it jerks wheel forcing me straight I have lane departure disabled, am manually driving under 15mph, and use proper blinker but this “safety feature” causes it to “jerk” the wheel and display warnings to the detriment of safety. This affects the entire fleet and was never an issue before around 2022-2023.

NHTSA complaint #11623018 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: ASSIST

Oct 31 9:48am my blinker on taking on ramp to highway and it jerks wheel forcing me straight I have lane departure disabled, am manually driving under 15mph, and use proper blinker but this “safety feature” causes it to “jerk” the wheel and display warnings to the detriment of safety. This affects the entire fleet and was never an issue before around 2022-2023.

NHTSA complaint #11623018 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: WARNING

Oct 25 3:15pm blinker is on for right turn but vehicle jerks wheel left forcing me straight and sounds alarms I have lane departure disabled, am manually driving under 15mph, and use proper blinker but this “safety feature” causes it to “jerk” the wheel and display warnings to the detriment of safety. This affects the entire fleet and was never an issue before around 2022-2023.

NHTSA complaint #11623019 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: ASSIST

Oct 25 3:15pm blinker is on for right turn but vehicle jerks wheel left forcing me straight and sounds alarms I have lane departure disabled, am manually driving under 15mph, and use proper blinker but this “safety feature” causes it to “jerk” the wheel and display warnings to the detriment of safety. This affects the entire fleet and was never an issue before around 2022-2023.

NHTSA complaint #11623019 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: ASSIST

I have lane departure disabled, am manually driving under 15mph, and use proper blinker but this “safety feature” causes it to “jerk” the wheel and display warnings to the detriment of safety. This affects the entire fleet and was never an issue before around 2022-2023. Oct 9th - 3:48pm blinker on turning into supercharger on geary blvd Oct 4:09pm changing lanes with blinker on, 4:10pm left turn at intersection with blinker on

NHTSA complaint #11623020 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: WARNING

I have lane departure disabled, am manually driving under 15mph, and use proper blinker but this “safety feature” causes it to “jerk” the wheel and display warnings to the detriment of safety. This affects the entire fleet and was never an issue before around 2022-2023. Oct 9th - 3:48pm blinker on turning into supercharger on geary blvd Oct 4:09pm changing lanes with blinker on, 4:10pm left turn at intersection with blinker on

NHTSA complaint #11623020 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: WARNING

Oct 5th - blinker is on turning into driveway at 1mph and got the alarms / wheel jerking I have lane departure disabled, am manually driving under 15mph, and use proper blinker but this “safety feature” causes it to “jerk” the wheel and display warnings to the detriment of safety. This affects the entire fleet and was never an issue before around 2022-2023.

NHTSA complaint #11623022 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: ASSIST

Oct 5th - blinker is on turning into driveway at 1mph and got the alarms / wheel jerking I have lane departure disabled, am manually driving under 15mph, and use proper blinker but this “safety feature” causes it to “jerk” the wheel and display warnings to the detriment of safety. This affects the entire fleet and was never an issue before around 2022-2023.

NHTSA complaint #11623022 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: ASSIST

Sept 29th 12:35pm passing truck double parked jerked wheel back towards truck I have lane departure disabled, am manually driving under 15mph, and use proper blinker but this “safety feature” causes it to “jerk” the wheel and display warnings to the detriment of safety. This affects the entire fleet and was never an issue before around 2022-2023.

NHTSA complaint #11623023 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: WARNING

Sept 29th 12:35pm passing truck double parked jerked wheel back towards truck I have lane departure disabled, am manually driving under 15mph, and use proper blinker but this “safety feature” causes it to “jerk” the wheel and display warnings to the detriment of safety. This affects the entire fleet and was never an issue before around 2022-2023.

NHTSA complaint #11623023 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: ASSIST

Sept 27th 8:59am turning into serramonte center, blinker was on, sounds alarms and jerks wheel 6:53 pm into garage my garage jerked wheel swerved towards wall I have lane departure disabled, am manually driving under 15mph, and use proper blinker but this “safety feature” causes it to “jerk” the wheel and display warnings to the detriment of safety. This affects the entire fleet and was never an issue before around 2022-2023.

NHTSA complaint #11623024 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: WARNING

Sept 27th 8:59am turning into serramonte center, blinker was on, sounds alarms and jerks wheel 6:53 pm into garage my garage jerked wheel swerved towards wall I have lane departure disabled, am manually driving under 15mph, and use proper blinker but this “safety feature” causes it to “jerk” the wheel and display warnings to the detriment of safety. This affects the entire fleet and was never an issue before around 2022-2023.

NHTSA complaint #11623024 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: ASSIST

Sept 26 1:38pm pulling in garage it swerved wheel towards wall and sounded alarms I have lane departure disabled, am manually driving under 15mph, and use proper blinker but this “safety feature” causes it to “jerk” the wheel and display warnings to the detriment of safety. This affects the entire fleet and was never an issue before around 2022-2023.

NHTSA complaint #11623026 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: WARNING

Sept 26 1:38pm pulling in garage it swerved wheel towards wall and sounded alarms I have lane departure disabled, am manually driving under 15mph, and use proper blinker but this “safety feature” causes it to “jerk” the wheel and display warnings to the detriment of safety. This affects the entire fleet and was never an issue before around 2022-2023.

NHTSA complaint #11623026 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: ASSIST

Sept 25 2:14pm pulling into garage and it swerved towards wall and sounded alarms 7:04pm turning into stonestown shopping center right from stop sign, alarms and jerking wheel force to go straight. Blinker was on. I have lane departure disabled, am manually driving under 15mph, and use proper blinker but this “safety feature” causes it to “jerk” the wheel and display warnings to the detriment of safety. This affects the entire fleet and was never an issue before around 2022-2023.

NHTSA complaint #11623027 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: WARNING

Sept 25 2:14pm pulling into garage and it swerved towards wall and sounded alarms 7:04pm turning into stonestown shopping center right from stop sign, alarms and jerking wheel force to go straight. Blinker was on. I have lane departure disabled, am manually driving under 15mph, and use proper blinker but this “safety feature” causes it to “jerk” the wheel and display warnings to the detriment of safety. This affects the entire fleet and was never an issue before around 2022-2023.

NHTSA complaint #11623027 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

San Francisco, CA

LANE DEPARTURE: ASSIST

7:38pm pulling into garage it jerked wheel right towards wall/edge of garage door assembly and sounded audible alarms (was driving manually and lane departure settings are allegedly disabled)

NHTSA complaint #11623035 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

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