New York (CNN Business)More thanTeslas have been involved in accidents because they accelerated unintentionally, according to a complaint filed with federal safety regulators.
The complaint, filed on December 19 but posted Friday, says the problem happened to 728 different cars across all three Tesla models currently for sale: the Model S, Model X and the Model 3. The unintended acceleration problem caused (accidents, and 127 People were injured as a result, according to the complaint.
The name of the parties bringing the complaint was not disclosed. Many of the complaints involved incidents involving parking the car or pulling out of a parking space.
The National Transportation Highway Safety Administration’s office, which investigates such complaints, says it is looking into the allegations. It has yet to decide whether or not enough evidence exists to open a defect investigation.
Complaints of unintended acceleration have repeatedly proved to be the fault of the drivers hitting the wrong pedal and not being aware that they were using the accelerator when they intended to use the brake.
But, in some instances, cars have been found to have a problem with unintended acceleration. The most widespread issue involved arecall of 2.3 million vehiclesby(Toyota) ************TMin (*****************************. Toyota also temporarilystopped selling eight of its modelsfor a period of time to address the problem.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the complaint. Shares ofTesla(TSLA), which havebeen on a runin recent months, little in early trading despite the report.
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