I just experienced random phantom braking today when no cars are around me. Just wondering if this problem is still common among model 3 drivers?
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phantom braking. Are you still experiencing it with latest software update?
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El joe
Active Member
Not too frequently but often enough that my wife complains about it and mentions it as why she hates Teslas. :/
100% of my phantom braking incidents went away last year when they recalibrated the cameras.
UncleCreepy
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TomT
Technical Maven
Are they doing something different at the SC than just hitting "calibrate cameras" on the service menu?
WilliamG
Hinge Fanatic
I tried that and it didn't work. They came out and worked on the car for about 2 hours including a test drive & everything has been perfect since. No clue what they did.
In more than 6 months I've only had 1 phantom brake, and the sun was shining directly into the windshield right above an overpass so I'd say that's acceptable. Before that I was seeing a couple incidents per week.
That's good and bad to hear. Good that the problem can potentially be fixed by a Tesla service, but really horrible that these cars are designed to either be delivered out of calibration from the factory, or get out of calibration over time and needing a 2 hour service. And to top it off, the car isn't even smart enough to tell you the calibration is out of whack, but just goes along its merry way screwing up.
You just can't make self-driving cars with that poor of an engineering design. Be better Tesla.
NpOverspeed
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The two spots where it happened the most often seemed to have been corrected so it has been at least two months since the last occurrence. I would not classify that as “fixed” but very much improved.
A few months ago, a software update completely fixed all of the phantom braking locations that I frequently drove through. I immediately came here to ask the same question, OP, and was surprised to find that there were as many people saying that phantom braking was worse for them after the update as those that said it had improved.
On the bright side, most all of the AP software re-write beta testers that post videos to YouTube about their experiences with the new software state that phantom braking is 99.9% fixed in the beta.
IMO, we won't see much (if any) phantom braking improvement until the new software is released to us; the updates we receive until then will be pretty limited as far as improvements to FSD/TACC (phantom braking). Something for us to look forward to.
On the bright side, most all of the AP software re-write beta testers that post videos to YouTube about their experiences with the new software state that phantom braking is 99.9% fixed in the beta.
IMO, we won't see much (if any) phantom braking improvement until the new software is released to us; the updates we receive until then will be pretty limited as far as improvements to FSD/TACC (phantom braking). Something for us to look forward to.
Still very common for me. Same for auto lane change failures.
Can't wait for the new FSD features
Can't wait for the new FSD features
Not sure if they qualify as "phantom braking", but I have a couple of places on my drive that my car always slow down. Oddly, there is a two-lane HOV section of the I-5 in Orange County, CA (just south of the Orange Crush) that is separated from the main line where if I am in the left lane, my car always slows down (I tested it during the initial days of COVID and it got all the way down to 35 MPH before I finally put my foot on the accelerator). If I am in the right lane, it never slows.
I keep hoping for improvements with the new rollout whenever it comes.
I keep hoping for improvements with the new rollout whenever it comes.
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