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Phantom braking log

Where it happens, on which software versions, and what genuinely helps — built from real owner reports.

Why this page looks empty: A single fabricated example wouldn't tell you anything real about where or why this happens — this only becomes useful once a genuine pattern of real reports exists to look at.

We don't fabricate entries here to make this look more populated than it is — every other page on this site is built the same way, on real, sourced or verified information, not invented content. This page becomes genuinely useful once real UK Tesla owners start contributing to it.

What this will become

What this page will look like once it has real data

A log of specific locations and conditions (a particular junction, a bridge, a shadow pattern) where owners have experienced unexpected braking from driver-assistance features, tagged by software version, so patterns become visible over time rather than each incident feeling like an isolated mystery.

See our Autopilot & FSD guide for the legal picture around driver-assistance features generally.