2020 TESLA MODEL Y — Complaint #1785282
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NHTSA Complaint about BACK OVER PREVENTION: CAMERA SYSTEM filed December 28, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1785282 (ODI reference 11445332) concerns a 2020 TESLA MODEL Y and was filed on December 28, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 28, 2021. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as back over prevention: camera system, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same TESLA MODEL Y cohort independently describe similar back over prevention: camera system failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2020 TESLA MODEL Y shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Backup camera intermittently fails to activate/engage when the vehicle is in reverse.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1785282 |
| ODI Number | 11445332 |
| Date Filed | December 28, 2021 |
| Failure Date | December 28, 2021 |
| VIN | 5YJYGDEF6LF |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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