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2024 CHEVROLET EQUINOX — Complaint #2041058

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NHTSA Complaint about FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING filed November 18, 2024

NHTSA complaint #2041058 (ODI reference 11625832) concerns a 2024 CHEVROLET EQUINOX and was filed on November 18, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 18, 2024. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as forward collision avoidance: automatic emergency 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: 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 CHEVROLET EQUINOX cohort independently describe similar forward collision avoidance: automatic emergency 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 2024 CHEVROLET EQUINOX shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2024 CHEVROLET EQUINOX
Component
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
State
Pennsylvania

Complaint Description

I manage a fleet of 12 of these vehicles for a Veterans Affairs hospital. I have had numerous complaints from the drivers about how distracting and invasive these systems are for the drivers. The red dash lights are blinding, the audible alert scares someone who is not used to these things and are very distracting in a tense moment when you need to be reacting, you cannot because you are too distracted by these systems. I myself am a disabled veteran with PTSD, and this system sends triggers my PTDS to where I cannot operate the vehicle. Please design something less invasive for anyone with anxiety/ptsd/depression/epilepsy/light sensitivity. For someone with any of these conditions these vehicles are completely inoperable as soon as the red light glares back off the windshield.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 2041058
ODI Number 11625832
Date Filed November 18, 2024
Failure Date November 18, 2024
VIN 3GNAXSEG4RL

Similar FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING Complaints for 2024 CHEVROLET EQUINOX

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.