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2020 TESLA MODEL S — BACK OVER PREVENTION: SENSING SYSTEM: CAMERA

crash · 1774453 · 2021-10-20

Vehicle

Make
TESLA
Model
MODEL S
Year
2020
Manufacturer
Tesla, Inc.
Component
BACK OVER PREVENTION: SENSING SYSTEM: CAMERA
Speed
2 mph

Severity

Deaths
0
Injured
0
Fire
No
Crash
Yes
Police report
No
Medical attention
No
Vehicle towed
No

Narrative

When backing up, multiple systems failed at the same time including backup camera, backup sensor distance visuals, backup sensor audio alerts, writing data to flash drive, GPS sensors. Tesla was unable to diagnose the sysfiles to identify the hardware issue behind the simultaneous failures because they are deleted after seven days. Scheduling a service appointment takes much longer than seven days. No one at Tesla can tell me why this happened. No one can assure me that it will not happen again. I hope this is not a widespread issue. I was not injured and my rear bumper only sustained minor damage. But what if someone had been hit because all these systems failed simultaneously?

Source

Authoritative
NHTSA ODI Flat-File Downloads
ODI Number
11437487
Machine
JSON-LD · Markdown