Tesla Regains Top Consumer Reports Rating on Auto-Braking Update
- Model S again ranks as the magazine’s top ultra-luxury sedan
- Despite rating bump, Model X stays near bottom of its category
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Tesla Inc.’s Model S recaptured Consumer Reports’ top rating for ultra-luxury sedans after the electric-car maker updated its vehicle software to fully restore an automatic emergency braking system.
The magazine boosted the Model S sedan’s rating Tuesday when it confirmed that the upper limit of Tesla’s automatic braking system was 90 miles per hour, as with the vehicles the automaker built before October. In April, Consumer Reports downgraded the Model S by two points on its 100-point scale after Tesla took months to deploy the feature on its newer vehicles.