2023 POLESTAR POLESTAR 2 — Complaint #1963083
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NHTSA Complaint about BACK OVER PREVENTION: REARVIEW SYSTEM BRAKING filed January 31, 2024
NHTSA complaint #1963083 (ODI reference 11568932) concerns a 2023 POLESTAR POLESTAR 2 and was filed on January 31, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 29, 2024. The report was geocoded to Washington based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as back over prevention: rearview system braking, 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: 2, 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 POLESTAR POLESTAR 2 cohort independently describe similar back over prevention: rearview system braking 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 2023 POLESTAR POLESTAR 2 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The vehicle improperly sensed an impending rear collision when there was no vehicle present. The vehicle entered a mode where the electronic seatbelt tensioners aggressively pulled the occupants and did not release until the seatbelt latches were depressed. This happened in traffic. The occupants sustained soft tissue injuries. The manufacturer refused to acknowledge the situation.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1963083 |
| ODI Number | 11568932 |
| Date Filed | January 31, 2024 |
| Failure Date | January 29, 2024 |
| VIN | YSMEG3KA0PL |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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