Dateline, Düsseldorf! In a move that’s sure to ruffle some feathers at Tesla HQ, a German court has officially ruled that Tesla’s Autopilot system is “unsuitable for use” due to a long-standing issue: phantom braking. You know, that fun little quirk where your car slams the brakes for no reason.
I have a model 3 and been driving it for 6 years now, +75K and even though I don’t have FSD, only the original Enhanced AP, I can say the phantom braking is still absolutely terrible and there’s two spots on my daily drive that it will reliably phantom brake and where this happens at least two or three times in my annual 900 mile trip.
How is that not worthy of an NHTSA recall? I wonder if they are investigating it.
Don’t mention NHTSA or else DOGE will hit that too. Only to save money of course