My 2019 Subaru Crosstrek has adaptive cruise control, and i've had it hit the brakes pretty hard when there's nothing in the way. Luckily it doesn't happen often.
I know you're not asking for advise but I'd recommend to have that checked, my recollection is that the manual spends far more pages listing the circumstances under which the system may fail to apply the brakes than those in which it may break when it didn't have to, so it seems odd enough for me that I'd get that checked if it happened to me.
I second the suggestion to get it checked.
The one issue I've noticed is that it sometimes hits the brakes for cars that are obviously exiting the highway because a tiny sliver of the car is still technically in the driving lane, so I've learned to keep my foot over the gas pedal to override it in that case. The amount of braking isn't scary though, it's just annoying because there's no need to slow down at all.
Is something occluding your eyesight cameras, like EZ pass?
Usually, the behavior is adaptive stuff all shuts off when the road turns to sharp or weather blocks the cameras.
EVs are new still. They're hyped and covered like crazy by the media in a lot of positive ways, so why should they not get equal press coverage when there is negative news? Once EVs hit a certain mass, they won't be novel anymore, and nobody will care.
> Sadly, Subarus don't make headlines though. A Tesla does just about anything and it's local news and Facebook fodder.
Why sadly? Subaru hasn't been loudly making empty promises about self-driving capability and hasn't been aggressively pushing not-fully-cooked self-driving software onto the road.