There are 3 owner-reported driver assist & adas complaints for the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EVin NHTSA's database. These are unverified consumer reports and may not reflect confirmed defects.
When driving down the road with no other vehicles around the blind spot warning light On the passenger side mirror will illuminate and turn off and on several times with no vehicles around. Which inadvertently triggers the forward collision system and locks up the brakes on the car. Once the forward collision system is activated there's no no way to reinitiate Acceleration until it turns off. This has happened several times on the highway causing me to have to force my car off under the shoulder to prevent from getting rear ended. With one time happening causing a semi to veer off the road. This is a very unsafe condition, and it has become more prevalent ever since they change the battery in the car.
On three occasions the Bolt blind spot warning system either did not warn us (three different drivers), or if it did warn by activating a light in the driver side mirror, the warning was not sufficient to avoid all three drivers attempting to change lanes when there was a vehicle in the blind spot. In all three cases the driver put on their turn signal to indicate they were changing lanes, but the Bolt, unlike every other car we’ve driven with a blind spot warning system, does not provide an audio warning when there is a car in the blind spot and the turn signal is activated. In all three cases the driver had to swerve at highway speed to avoid hitting the car in the blind spot. After the first incident we researched whether there was a means of enabling an audio sound for the blind spot warning, but we found there is not. The Bolt appears to have an unusually large driver side blind spot and because of the placement of the driver side mirror the blind spot warning light does not get the driver’s attention when changing lanes.
The driver's side blind spot monitor never worked well from new with false positives, and by the end of 2019 it just stayed on 90% of the time. The passenger side monitor generally worked better, but still had false positive signals on occasion. There is a TSB (17-NA-097) for this issue. With Covid, and unhelpful dealerships, it took 4 tries at different dealerships before it was finally fixed recently. The film over the both sensors was non-functional, just as described in the TSB. As there is a TSB, this is a known issue for this vehicle from the factory.
Complaints are unverified consumer reports submitted to NHTSA. A high complaint count may reflect vehicle popularity, not defect severity. Data sourced from NHTSA public records.
Data synced from NHTSA on Apr 25, 2026