2023 TESLA MODEL Y — Complaint #2010392
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, ELECTRIC:SOFTWARE/PROGRAMMING filed July 24, 2024
NHTSA complaint #2010392 (ODI reference 11604346) concerns a 2023 TESLA MODEL Y and was filed on July 24, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 1, 2024. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, electric:software/programming, 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: yes, fire: no, injuries: 1, fatalities: 0. A complaint that flags a crash, fire, or fatality is escalated on NHTSA's internal review queue and factors more heavily into any Preliminary Evaluation decision on this make and model. 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 service brakes, electric:software/programming 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 TESLA MODEL Y shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Regenerative braking is a huge factor when it comes down to hydroplaning. Hydroplaning and braking do not go well together. Generally in a normal gasoline vehicle, when in a hydroplaning situation where you feel the vehicle is beginning to slide, you would let go of the throttle (gas pedal), and correct the steering. Upon doing that, regenerative braking (which comes from letting go of the gas pedal), caused the vehicle to completely go sideways and no chance for me to correct the steering. This situation could have been avoided if the vehicle did not automatically brake on it's own when I let go of the throttle, in this situation.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2010392 |
| ODI Number | 11604346 |
| Date Filed | July 24, 2024 |
| Failure Date | February 1, 2024 |
| VIN | 7SAYGDEE1PF |
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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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