The Handelsblatt website from Germany today published a report of thousands of incidents of accidents, sudden stops, random stops and sudden acceleration of cars when using the Autopilot self-driving system. The 100GB of data was received by Handelsblatt through an anonymous internal source.
In this database there are 2400 incidents of cars accelerating without being instructed, 1500 incidents involving the braking system, 139 cases of emergency braking without reason, 383 incidents of braking without reason due to issues with violation detection and 3000 reports from users about issues with FSD that are categorized as troubling. The majority of issues were reported by users from the United States and Germany. Reports also claim that Tesla has not provided serious assistance to customers who reported all these issues.
Handelsblatt enlists the help of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology to ensure that the data received is original without any editing. Reports are still published even though the use of this leaked data is against EU law. Publication is felt necessary to ensure the safety of Tesla users with the FSD Beta system.
This is not the first time that issues involving Autopilot or FSD Beta have been reported. Several high-profile accident incidents have already been reported in China and the United States involving Tesla cars randomly accelerating and stopping in tunnels resulting in accidents.
In all incidents Tesla issued a statement that the fault lies in the hands of the user. Also this year, former Telsa employees admitted to falsifying a self-driving video in 2016 to show that the Autopilot system was more capable than the actual situation. Tesla has yet to issue an official statement regarding Handelsblatt's report at this time.
