Safety

Tesla phantom braking explained: HW3 vs HW4 triggers, settings to change, NHTSA status (2026)

Why your Tesla brakes hard for nothing on an empty road: known triggers on HW3 Vision-only and HW4, what to disable in Autopilot settings, how to report it so Tesla logs it, and where the NHTSA PE22-002 investigation stands in 2026 (758+ complaints, still in Preliminary Evaluation).