2025 Tesla Model 3

Turn signal will not turn on when button on steering wheel is depressed.

I have a safety concern regarding tesla's full self driving (fsd) supervised system. v13.2.8 being the latest customer version. since the update to fsd v13 in december, i have consistently used it on a daily basis. while it performs great on city streets, it consistently caused a serious safety risk on the freeway: it habitually tailgates cars at high speeds of 70-80 mph on the freeway. it does this even when there is no traffic and the other lanes are wide open. i have experienced this on both a model 3 (2025) and a model y (2024). i am writing this complaint here hoping you will pay attention to it, as despite my best efforts, tesla has ignored my feedback. i even opened a service ticket about it at one point, and the service tech couldn't care less. not maintaining proper distance to the cars in front on the freeway puts the passengers at high risk for a rear end collision. if tesla is to launch an unsupervised version of their fsd system, this problem must be addressed first!

My car has turn indicator buttons on the steering wheel rather than a turn stalk. i've found that these jam from time to time. what i mean is sometimes when i push the button, it is already 'jammed in' and nothing happens. i have to kind of randomly push around the button a few times, or push the opposite turn signal direction to unjam it. this causes a few problems: 1) lane changes are dynamic and accident-prone. having the signal indicator button jam on me is distracting and that's dangerous. 2) sometimes the reason i need to change lanes is urgent, to avoid a potential collision ahead of me. if the button jams on me while i'm signaling the lane change, my instinct is to abort the lane change until i figure out what's going on. that's dangerous itself, since i might end up colliding. 3) when i'm trying to unjam it, my turn signals visible to other drivers can be kind of erratic - they sometimes see me signaling the opposite way briefly, or on-and-off. when i reported the problem to the tesla service center, they said they've heard about the issue before. they said that usually people will bring in their car, but they won't be able to reproduce the issue onsite so they can't so anything about it. and they suggested that it might be because i'm not being 'precise' with my button presses, causing the buttons to occasionally be wedged. the problem with this is that the buttons don't have clear outlines of where you're supposed to press them, and there's no tactile way to position your thumb in the right spots -- and the position of the buttons is kind of variable since they pivot as the steering wheel itself pivots (unlike turn stalks which remain stationary regardless of the steering wheel angle).

We had our winter tires swapped for summer tires at the discount tire on 361 s grady way, renton, wa. after driving on them for over a week—including high-speed highway driving—our car suddenly started feeling like it had a flat tire. however, the tire pressure was completely normal. upon closer inspection, i noticed the rear passenger-side tire was sitting at an angle. when i removed the hubcap, i discovered that one lug nut had completely fallen off, and the remaining ones were all loose. it appears that the discount tire technician only hand-tightened the lug nuts during installation.

The contact owns a 2025 tesla model 3. the contact stated that on several occasions while driving at various speeds, the turn signal button on the steering wheel was activated but was unresponsive. the contact stated that the button was stuck but then loosened up. the vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. the manufacturer was notified of the failure. the failure mileage was unknown.

Hi, my car computer completly stop(complete blackout) on the highway, no power, all doors and window blooked, reduce brake and steering wheel capacity. i changed line and went to the side of the road, but in an intersection or other road type, that could have been so much worst results. no hard reset nothing put back the power of the car.

My left and right turn signal buttons stick, and do not work randomly. i see that this is a very common problem on newer tesla models with push button turn signals. turn signals are important and this issue needs to get fixed asap.

The contact owns a 2025 tesla model 3. the contact stated while his daughter was driving 30 mph at night with full self-driving(fsd) supervised mode engaged, the vehicle suddenly made a left turn. the contact stated that the vehicle drove over a curb and onto the grass, and the vehicle drove into a residence's driveway, where the front of the vehicle crashed into the rear passenger's side of three unoccupied vehicles that were parked in the driveway. the front passenger's side and driver's side air bags deployed. the exterior hazard lights were illuminated. the contact's daughter did not sustain any injuries. a police report was filed but the contact did not have the police report information available. the vehicle was towed to a tow lot, where it was waiting to be picked up by a certified tesla autobody repair shop. the manufacturer was notified of the failure, but no assistance was provided. the vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. the failure mileage was approximately 219.

Turn signal buttons become inoperative. on occasion, the turn signal buttons cannot be engaged, they appear to be stuck and eventually become operative again. also i believe the placement of the turn signal operators on the steering wheel instead of on stalks is a safety hazard as they are often difficult to engage like when the steering wheel is being turned and the buttons are therefor not in a position where they are easy to engage

The horn does not work when wet or in snow. i was driving in a snow storm and needed to use the horn, but it did not work at all. i tried multiple times throughout the day and it still did not work. once the snow was gone, the horn started working again. this seems like a serious safety issue.

Turn signal buttons on steering wheel intermittently fail to work.

Steering wheel mounted turn signal buttons intermittently do not work - even when pressed multiple times, nothing happens. this is not a daily occurrence but has happened often enough to be dangerous ~5% of the time and happens randomly / unexpectedly. to be clear - this issue is separate and distinct from the poor design and placement of these buttons which - even when working as designed - are regularly engaged unintentionally or wrong direction is mistakenly engaged (i.e., click right when going left). this complaint is prompted because there are occasions where they simply and unexpectedly do not work after repeated attempts. please force a recall - i know there are many tesla owners who are encountering the same safety issue and have similar concerns due to these unreliable turn signal buttons.

The indicator buttons randomly disable and also disable if the user rests their finger lightly on an indicator button for some number of seconds. the car is available for inspection on request. tesla looked at it and said it's "normal" and "expected" for the buttons to disable if you simply rest your finger on the button for too long prior to clicking it in. when this occurs, both indicator buttons will be disabled for upwards of 12 seconds. neither button will physically click, and the indicators themselves will not activate no matter how many times you try pressing the button. this put the safety of others (and myself) at risk three times in my one month of owning the car. tesla did nothing the first time i tried to get it fixed and said it's "normal", and wanted me to leave the service center with nothing done. i refused, so they replaced the entire steering wheel for me. the new steering wheel exhibited this same behaviour this morning - nearly resulting in a car smash as i was trying to navigate around an existing car smash on the highway. no warnings, messages or anything. i've only owned the car for a month.

- autopoilt/fsd had a failure and malfunction, the car speeded up on its own and hit the divider while driving on a highway exit road, which is a u shaped road. - everyone in the car could be dead if i didn't pull the steer wheeling at the last minute to aviod fatal accident, it was horrifying - i have reported the claim to tesla right after the incident, but they were not responsive in providing a solution, for more than month, they just kept me waiting - no, it has not been inspected - no warning or messages before the crash and the failure, the system all of sudden speed up on its own, causing the crash this is a seriously malfunction and faulty on tesla's fsd system, they must recognize this issue and take responsibility over it. yet they keep failing to take any responsibility on it.

Turn signal stalk has been removed. directional activation is now done by pressing arrows on steering wheel spoke. i have to take my eyes off the road to locate the spot that turns the directional on or off. these arrows are next to the radio controls and i inadvertently turn them on all the time. if your turning you cannot find the flat markings that activate them. i cannot safely drive this car after weeks of trying to adjust. in addition they have placed a turn signal stalk on the new model y due to customer feedback.

After installing tesla ota software update 2024.45.32.15, my vehicle experienced critical system failures. upon entering the car the next morning, i noticed that all cameras were non-functional, and navigation had completely stopped working. this posed a serious safety concern, as features like autopilot, parking assistance, and basic visibility enhancements (such as rearview camera functionality) were unavailable.

Turn indicator not working. i was in a highway and when i pressed turn indicator button, nothing happened. multiple presses with varying pressure had no effect

The contact owns a 2025 tesla model 3. the contact stated while driving with the autopilot and full self-driving and attempting to parallel park into a parking space when it made a sudden left turn and crashed into a curb. the contact took over manually and depressed the brake pedal in order to avoid the entire vehicle driving over the curb. the contact mentioned that the full self-driving software was the most updated version and it did not detect the curb causing the crash. the front passenger side bumper was damaged and scratches underneath the vehicle. no injuries were sustained. no air bags deployed. a police report was not filed. the tesla software did not detect the crash. the vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. the manufacturer was informed of the failure and referred the contact to take the vehicle to the dealer. the failure mileage was 19,000.

I sent following to tesla i had an accident at around 6:30 pm on sunday, march 2nd with my tesla model 3 and asking to see if you can conduct a diagnostic check into this incident. i was coming home at that time with the tesla and about 100 yards from my house, i experienced a sudden acceleration with the car going from about 20mph to, i think, over 40 mph and crashed into the garage area of my house. around the time i started experiencing that unwanted acceleration, i heard a whining sound. as it started that sudden acceleration, i checked below to make sure my right foot was pressing on the brake pedal and it was. since i have the regenerative braking with my tesla, the car should have decelerated but, instead, it sped up. i continued to press the brake pedal but i could not mitigate my car’s continual acceleration. it eventually crashed through the lowered garage door and went through the right side of the garage wall about half way out and came to the stop. i was driving myself and not engaged in self-driving feature. i like to see if the tesla has any resources available to retrace last few seconds and be able to glean more information of why that sudden acceleration might have happened. the car is still located in my garage but currently the car is disabled and powered off. the car’s power was on and it automatically turned on emergency light for about 30 minutes after the accident before it eventually powering off. i am also curious to know why none of the airbags were deployed in this accident. i have many photos available of the accident. the fire department and police came and assisted. i do not know if this matters but the couple of nights before the car had one of those over the air updates by tesla and also about couple of minutes before the accident i drove through about a minute of hard rain in otherwise light rainy drive. i also wonder why auto-braking did not engage against the house.

As i was pulling into a parking spot with my new 2025 model 3 tesla, i removed my foot from the gas to slow the car - the appropriate way to do so which is called tesla's one pedal driving. the car did slow but then suddenly surged forward at an alarming rate. i have 100% certainty that my foot was not on the gas at this moment. the car was stopped by a large concrete planter just in front of me, however, if that planter was not there, my car would have been through the glass of an office building or in a head on collision with another car in the lot. if there was a person walking into the building, they would have been dead. a witness approached me and mentioned that the car seemed to act erratically. i have been in touch with tesla about the issue and am awaiting response.

Steering assist reduced, traction control disabled, stability control disabled. when trying to drive steering heavy and car coasts unless holding brake pedal, which is unusual for a tesla at it normally auto holds. traction control and stability control also disabled, unsafe to drive.

The office of defects investigation (“odi”) is opening this preliminary evaluation (pe) to assess the scope, frequency, and potential safety consequences of fsd executing driving maneuvers that constitute traffic safety violations. this investigation concerns versions of fsd that tesla has labeled as "fsd (supervised)" and "fsd (beta)." tesla characterizes fsd as an sae level 2 partial automation system requiring a fully attentive driver who is engaged in the driving task at all times. level 2 partial automation systems are designed to support and assist the driver in performing certain aspects of the driving task, requiring a driver to supervise and intervene as necessary.  the driver remains fully responsible at all times for driving the vehicle, including complying with applicable traffic laws. odi’s investigation will therefore focus, in particular, on whether certain driving inputs within the control authority of fsd forestall the driver’s supervision when they are unexpectedly performed. odi has identified a number of incidents in which the inputs to the dynamic driving task commanded by fsd induced vehicle behavior that violated traffic safety laws. although reports of this nature span a variety of behaviors, the reports appear to most commonly involve two types of scenarios. the first type of scenario involves a vehicle operating with fsd proceeding into an intersection in violation of a red traffic signal. the second type of scenario involves fsd commanding a lane change into an opposing lane of traffic. with respect to the first type of scenario, odi has identified 18 complaints and 1 media report alleging that a tesla vehicle, operating at an intersection with fsd engaged, failed to remain stopped for the duration of a red traffic signal, failed to stop fully, or failed to accurately detect and display the correct traffic signal state in the vehicle interface. some complainants also alleged that fsd did not provide warnings of the system's intended behavior as the vehicle was approaching a red traffic signal. odi has identified six standing general order ("sgo") reports in which a tesla vehicle, operating with fsd engaged, approached an intersection with a red traffic signal, continued to travel into the intersection against the red light and was subsequently involved in a crash with other motor vehicles in the intersection. of these incidents, four crashes resulted in one or more reported injuries. at least some of the incidents appeared to involve fsd proceeding into the intersection after coming to a complete stop. odi's pre-investigative work, including coordination with the maryland transportation authority and state police, indicated that the problem may be repeatable, given that multiple subject incidents occurred at the same intersection in joppa, maryland. nhtsa understands that tesla has since taken action to address the issue at this intersection. with respect to the second type of scenario, odi has identified 2 sgo reports, 18 complaints, and 2 media reports alleging that a tesla vehicle, operating with fsd engaged, entered opposing lanes of travel during or following a turn, crossed double-yellow lane markings while proceeding straight, or attempted to turn onto a road in the wrong direction despite the presence of wrong-way road signs. likewise, odi has identified 4 sgo reports, 6 complaints, and 1 media report alleging that a tesla vehicle, operating with fsd engaged, proceeded straight through an intersection in a turn-only lane or executed a turn at an intersection in a through lane despite the presence of lane markings or signals. complaints also alleged that fsd did not provide warnings of the system's intended behavior. some complaints alleged that more than one of these failures occurred and, as such, the numbers are not cumulative. some of the reported incidents appeared to involve fsd executing a lane change into an opposing lane of travel with little notice to a driver or opportunity to intervene. odi’s review will a

The office of defects investigation (“odi”) has identified numerous incident reports submitted by tesla, inc. (“tesla”) in response to standing general order 2021-01 (the “sgo”), in which the reported crashes occurred several months or more before the dates of the reports. the majority of these reports involved crashes in which the standing general order in place at the time required a report to be submitted within one or five days of tesla receiving notice of the crash. when the reports were submitted, tesla submitted them in one of two ways. many of the reports were submitted as part of a single batch, while others were submitted on a rolling basis. preliminary engagement between odi and tesla on the issue indicates that the timing of the reports was due to an issue with tesla’s data collection, which, according to tesla, has now been fixed. nhtsa is opening this audit query, a standard process for reviewing compliance with legal requirements, to evaluate the cause of the potential delays in reporting, the scope of any such delays, and the mitigations that tesla has developed to address them. as part of this review, nhtsa will assess whether any reports of prior incidents remain outstanding and whether the reports that were submitted include all of the required and available data. the sgo reports cited in the opening resume, can be found at nhtsa.gov/sgocrashreporting under the following sgo 2021-01 report ids: 13781-11020-1 13781-10844-1 13781-10843-1 13781-10530-1 13781-10160-1 13781-10159-1 13781-10157-1 13781-10146-1 13781-10122-1 13781-10098-1 13781-10097-1 13781-10096-1 13781-10095-1 13781-10094-1 13781-10093-1 13781-10023-1 13781-10022-1 13781-10021-1 13781-10020-1 13781-10017-1 13781-10016-1 13781-10015-1 13781-10014-1 13781-10013-1 13781-10012-1 13781-6047-1 13781-9930-1 13781-9917-1 13781-9928-1 13781-9925-1 13781-9924-1 13781-9923-1 13781-9922-1 13781-9835-1 13781-9834-1 13781-9833-1 13781-9832-1 13781-9831-1 13781-9830-1 13781-9829-1 13781-9827-1 13781-9818-1 13781-9780-1 13781-9779-1 13781-9778-1 13781-9777-1 13781-9775-1 13781-9774-1 13781-9773-1 13781-9772-1 13781-9771-1 13781-9770-1 13781-9728-1 13781-9688-1 13781-9715-1 13781-9714-1 13781-9713-1 13781-9712-1 13781-9711-1 13781-9710-1 13781-9709-1 13781-9696-1 13781-9695-1 13781-9694-1 13781-9693-1 13781-9692-1 13781-9691-1 13781-9690-1 13781-9687-1 13781-9686-1 13781-9342-1 13781-9319-1 13781-9019-1 13781-8910-1 13781-8732-1 13781-8712-1 13781-8310-1 13781-7897-1 13781-7895-1 13781-7835-1 13781-7798-1 13781-7797-1 13781-7758-1 13781-7757-1 13781-7756-1 13781-7755-1 13781-7667-1 13781-7399-1 13781-7398-1 13781-7397-1 13781-7396-1 13781-7395-1 13781-7394-1 13781-7393-1 13781-7389-1 13781-7388-1 13781-7387-1 13781-7386-1 13781-7385-1 13781-7383-1 13781-7187-1 13781-7186-1 13781-7185-1 13781-7184-1 13781-7181-1 13781-7023-1 13781-6399-1 13781-6389-1 13781-6388-1 13781-6387-1 13781-6386-1 13781-6379-1 13781-6378-1 13781-6377-1 13781-6375-1 13781-6214-1 13781-6172-1 13781-6155-1 13781-6154-1 13781-6122-1 13781-6120-1 13781-6118-1 13781-5800-1

Smart summon and actually smart summon are features on certain tesla vehicles that allow a user to remotely move the vehicle to the user or to another designated location, through use of a phone app. the office of defects investigation (odi) has received 1 complaint (voq) alleging that an actually smart summon session resulted in a crash and has reviewed at least 3 media reports of apparently similar crashes. all four incidents involve the subject tesla vehicles operating in actually smart summon failing to detect posts or parked vehicles, resulting in a crash. actually smart summon replaced smart summon and provided users with extended vehicle operating range while expanding vehicle connectivity through phone app live camera feeds and increased user latency experience. odi has received 12 smart summon related voqs alleging crash typology similar to the crashes experienced by users of actually smart summon during sessions with little time for operators to react. odi is aware of multiple crash allegations, involving both smart summon and actually smart summon, where the user had too little reaction time to avoid a crash, either with the available line of sight or releasing the phone app button, which stops the vehicle’s movement. tesla has not reported any smart summon or actually smart summon crashes through the standing general order for crashes involving ads or level 2 adas, which requires reporting of crashes on publicly accessible roads. odi is opening this preliminary evaluation to investigate actually smart summon’s capabilities as they relate to the subject and similar crashes, including the system's operation and field performance in fsd equipped vehicles and vehicles included in free trial offers. nhtsa will evaluate the top speed that a vehicle can attain while actually smart summon is engaged, designed-in operating restrictions for usage on public roads, and line of sight requirements. nhtsa expects this preliminary evaluation to include review of remote vehicle control through the phone app at various distances and lines of sight, including app connectivity delays resulting in increased stopping distance and the ability to utilize actually smart summon in roadway environments or operating conditions for which the current version of the system is neither intended nor designed. to review the odi reports cited in the opening resume odi report identification number document, go to nhtsa.gov.