2021 Volkswagen Atlas defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2021 Volkswagen Atlas. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Inadvertent Automatic Emergency Braking
  Preliminary Evaluation PE23017 · opened Sep 28, 2023 · closed Dec 18, 2024

  On September 28, 2023, the Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened a Preliminary Evaluation (PE23017) to assess reports of inadvertent activation of the Front Assist automatic emergency braking (AEB) system in model year (MY) 2018-2019 Volkswagen Atlas vehicles.The reports alleged that activation of the AEB system…