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As far as I know all new model luxury cars like Audi and Mercedes come with automatic braking for frontal impacts. So considering the number of Mercedes sold in the last few years, I think it's safe to say there are more of them than Teslas.
Automatic braking has been a common feature even in non-luxury vehicles since at least 2018.
Wouldn't be surprised if this is their radar whitelist blinding it to sensor input.
It might also indeed be about phantom braking. My relatively old (probably designed around 10 to 20 years ago) system gets confused sometimes when I pass a truck or a bus and once even when I passed a bicycle. It happened at least 5 times in less than 10,000km. So I suspect there is some merit to the Autopilot disabling the feature.
Ive a Jeep Grand Cherokee. It has the front sensing collision detector and auto braking. It may have hit the brakes 1 time that I wasnt paying attention and 9,999,999 times when there was nothing in front of me. I disable it and thus far have avoided crashing. The point is that driver assist systems are only assist and you have to pay attention when you drive. Ive said this here before, Autopilot is a terrible misnom…
Very similar to Tesla's auto pilot, that can't manage your driveway, random surface streets, but can mostly (but not completely) handle highways.
This is purely anecdotal, but I find the automatic braking system on my Mazda CX-9 to be fairly annoying. Once every couple months or so, it has a false alarm and brakes while blaring out alerts, in an urban environment where I don't observe anything out of the ordinary at all. And it's never activated in a situation where I found it to be helpful.
That said, it's possible that an annoyance every two months is just the cost of a system that really would help me if I got into bigger trouble. It's hard to say from purely my own anecdotes.
yet another tesla hit piece from russ mitchell and the la times. is it just me or does the la times drag tesla at every opportunity? could it be because the owner of the la times, patrick soon shiong, has a company called nantenergy that seeks to compete with tesla? at a minimum, there’s a conflict of interest. and, kind of a tangent, but where are the articles about the thousands of lives lost due to the incompatibi…
Should it be happening? Well the NHTSA doesn't seem to mind it. Maybe we should be asking them why their automatic emergency braking tests are so stupidly out of agreement with what drivers expect and automakers promise that the systems are able to do. The freight industry has a high speed test and their systems are top notch.
It's kind of interesting that this appears to happen with police cars and emergency vehicles mostly. Is there a particular way of parking such vehicles that makes it hard(er) for a Tesla to detect it? It might also indeed be about phantom braking. My relatively old (probably designed around 10 to 20 years ago) system gets confused sometimes when I pass a truck or a bus and once even when I passed a bicycle. It happen…