NHTSA ODI #11710015

2026 Tesla Model Y Complaint

Seats

Filed January 9, 2026 · Incident date January 9, 2026

Vehicle
2026 Tesla Model Y
Component(s)
Seats
Complaint filed
January 9, 2026
Date of incident
January 9, 2026
Reported VIN
7SAYGDEE0TF

Owner's description

Tesla driver seat folding down and moving forward automatically, especially when the driver is seated: It keeps happening when I enter the car. It might be triggered by my pressing the brake before i decide to start driving, or even while I am simply parked for a while, without giving any instructions to the seat. My searches online point to the easy entry setting.This dangerous behaviour is not part of a correct definition of easy entry. Why are sensors and stupid programming now allowed to override the safety of the driver? There is no such thing as "correctly detecting the driver or not" dangerous stupidities with older and even more mechanical driver seats, and with older versions of motorised driver seats in other cars. The seat was not empty and the seated driver gave no movement and no folding instructions to the tesla car driver seat.

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