I was driving home from work on 10/17 when my '16 Platinum flashed the red Collision Warning light and slammed on the brakes going from ~35mph to 0, tons of ABS clicking and all. The car in front of me was over 100 ft away and no traffic in other lanes, thank God no one was behind me either. Once I caught my breath, I pulled over to the side of the road as my stomach emptied itself. This happened a few lights from my house so I drove home only to have to pull over on my street and my driveway as my stomach wasn't quite empty yet. After washing off, I noticed I couldn't quite get my breath fully, chest and stomach hurt from the seat belt. I called up the local Ford dealership to get the truck towed in, they reluctantly sent me over to roadside assistance which said it would be within 60 minutes to pick up. I scheduled a doctor's appointment for later than night. 110 minutes later a tow truck from 3 towns away showed up, I guess I got the wrong end of the tow truck company rotation. Tow truck driver was awesome, but they sent a regular tow truck (not flat bed) even though I have 4wd so it took forever as the guy set up the back wheels for tow. After a 5 minute drive to the dealership my 3 hours tow request was completed. The dealership didn't have my rental setup, even though we discussed it hours before and then by the time we finally got there in discussion the rental place had just closed. A salesman offer to drive me home which was my only option left so I got home and my gf drove me to the doctor's office. There I was turned away because I didn't file an auto insurance claim and the doctor's was closing soon, too soon for me to file. Got home and filed a claim, called into work and went to the doctor the next morning. Thank God nothing broken, but bruised sternum, bruised ribs, and tons of chest inflammation so I'm on an anti-inflammatory and muscle relaxer, prescribed pain killer too but ineffective. Two days later, one of treatment, still can't take full breathes and chest pains remain. Ford called and said they found the problem and it was a computer issue; confirmed with collision warning turned off and cruise control turn off the Truck applied the brakes itself all the way to a full stop - something it's not supposed to ever do - they re-flashed it and said it's good to go. The truck and tow was covered under warranty, but it seems I'm stuck with the medical bills, anyone have anything similar worked out?

TL;DR; Truck tried to kill me, get dealership to re flash your units to prevent it.

 

Jesus... that's a hell of a software bug... I really hope you don't have any lasting effects from this. Will the medical bills be anything significant?

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Better put your flame suit on. This was the wrong place to bring that girly man stuff. That is just a warning lol.
However, do some research you will see seatbelts are single use items. If you hit the seatbelt that hard you need it replaced.

 

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you don't think guys are going to flame him for his truck stopping from 35 mph and giving him internal injuries?

 

It'd be a pretty douchey thing to do... no injury is funny, really

 

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, as much as I'm entitled to ignore them. I was accelerating from a stop light on left turn just prior on a 45mph road, you wouldn't believe how fast this thing stopped. I've been lucky to walk away from 5 totals (was a passenger for most), never bruised from those incidents just glass lacerations. This time it was literally puking force.

 

Of course it was! The readers (our users here) must account for the change in speed (Delta-V) to really "get" what happened. The human body is not made of material with the same tolerances as the truck. The Delta-V for a truck going from 30 to 0 is equal to the human body falling off a 30 story building, and you were going even faster than 30. Even 10mph is "fast" for the human body. A fall off a 3.3ft desk would hurt a lot, and that's only equivalent to a 10mph collision.

 

Thus far not too bad, I did doctor's visit they switched same day service to "Urgent care" but no crazy ER cost luckily. Got a follow up scheduled for next week but that should be an in & out. Trying to avoid auto insurance claim though, after talking with them (auto insurance) sounds like I can drop the auto claim and pay out of pocket, currently it's less than my deductible anyways but had to claim to be seen.

 

and just so you know the math your using does not apply to the trucks using the brakes and tires to slow it. We're not talking impacting a non moveable object.