{"source":"NHTSA vehicle owner complaint","officialApiUrl":"https://api.nhtsa.gov/complaints/odinumber?odinumber=11550208","retrievedAt":"2026-11-05T05:21:13.329Z","count":1,"results":[{"odiNumber":11550208,"manufacturer":"BMW of North America, LLC","crash":false,"fire":false,"numberOfInjuries":0,"numberOfDeaths":0,"dateOfIncident":"10/10/2023","dateComplaintFiled":"10/16/2023","vin":"5UXCR6C00L9","components":"LANE DEPARTURE","summary":"I was driving in the rain and I experienced an issue with a vehicle’s automatic safety systems that are designed to aid you from crashing and it would have been the proximate cause of my fatal accident had I not realized what was happening and stopped the system’s actions.  The system kicked in when I touched the rumble strip with my front left tire but I brought it back before the system could because it detected the event and created a countering event to correct my mistake, hence begins the issue.  When the car veered right it didn’t need to so I had to counter that movement to keep from hitting the car next to me. The car then detected this and created another event that I again corrected before the system could.   This created a situation now where the systems working together were creating events to correct events it didn’t need to do because the systems when working together now had a response time to real world events slower than mine and it couldn’t stop itself from doing this solely due to a lack of processing power.   In less than 2 seconds I went from driving straight to fighting a car that put me into a horizontal “death wobble” that would have caused my car to spin either clockwise or counterclockwise at some point had I panicked and slammed on the brakes, which is what most people would have done in this situation, but I knew better.    I realized what was happening immediately and I stopped it by simply keeping the steering wheel centered straight ahead forcefully until the safety systems caught up and cleared all the events.   I am giving you the short version because the system in the first 1-2 seconds made, created, and stacked at least 5 of these events as I fought to correct them until the vehicle’s body roll and “death wobble” stopped and I was able to drive straight again.  The wet roadways and rain only made it worse.   This is a huge problem and may cause so many fatal accidents that I can’t even imagine, as I a retired policer this","products":[{"type":"Vehicle","productYear":"2020","productMake":"BMW","productModel":"X5","manufacturer":"BMW of North America, LLC"}]}]}