Freightliner Cascadia drivers report truck randomly slamming on brakes
The Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration is investigating a sequence of complaints over Freightliner Cascadia vans immediately slowing as a result of an computerized emergency breaking system.
The allegedly defective system entails 2017–2022 vans, probably affecting roughly 250,000 automobiles made by Freightliner Vehicles, a division of Daimler Truck North America. Drivers report activation of the AEB system “with out an precise roadway impediment,” a discover stated, prompting an investigation to start Might 26.
The administration’s Workplace of Defects Investigation acquired 18 complaints from automobile homeowners or drivers, the place a number of stated the automobile will randomly slam on the brakes.
Some described how the difficulty arose when approaching bridges and overhead indicators. Among the many complaints, drivers stated:
- “This technique routinely alerts an impending collision and applies the brakes, typically in a really aggressive manner, for no purpose by any means.”
- “The ahead radar sensor detects a goal 3 ft in entrance of me and slams on the brakes if the cruise management is about.”
- “Locked up the brakes within the rain inflicting a slide. Locked up on ice nearly inflicting a jackknife. Then this summer time it has locked up when nothing is round.”
One other driver stated the adaptive cruise management and ahead crash avoidance methods misread information. And a few operators advised a third-party producer was related to the difficulty.
The complaints had been filed over a number of years and concerned a spread of drivers, together with these with over three a long time of expertise who voiced security issues.
