Rage against the machine... [ADMIN WARNING: NO POLITICS]

[sys700]

I live in a pretty liberal city in Southwest Michigan. In the past few weeks (as the weather has gotten warmer) things have really heated up in terms of Cybertruck hate.

First incident, driving on the highway towards town, a guy passes me on the right, cuts over into my truck (on FSD), nearly clipping the front of it. My truck swerves to the left to avoid him as he flips me off. I catch up to him to get a good video of his license plate, only to have him brake check me on the highway no less than 7 times, going from 80MPH (on FSD Hurry mode) down to about 5MPH in under half a minute. I have to drive on the left side of the road to avoid hitting him as he continues to flip me off. He pulls off at the next exit, exits his vehicle, and motions me to pull over and fight him!

Second incident. I'm in a restaurant with my family and this car drives up. A girl and her boyfriend walk around my car. He makes a motion as if he is keying my truck as he walks around it.

Third incident was this random guy in a maroon Suburu. I'm driving on FSD. He sees me in his rear view mirror, and begins to rage and wave his fist at me out his window. He slows down so I can pass him by, and you can see in the second video he tries to swerve into me. He continues to give me the thumbs down and shake his fist at me. The video cuts off after this, but as I'm about to slow down to turn left into a restaurant, he drives left to cut me off and tries to clip the front of my vehicle. FSD slows down to avoid an accident, and slows down to make the left into the restaurant. He nearly comes to a full stop in the road in front of me, but realizing I was already pulling into a restaurant, he drives ahead.

My cellphone access was restricted inside the restaurant, so I couldn't monitor the truck in Sentry Mode. I had to walk out to see if the guy had returned to key my truck. You just never know! I didn't notice anything suspicious, but I didn't walk around the entire truck. The next day I noticed this substance on the side of my truck...on the back tire mainly, but in both wheel wells, all along the side of the truck and on the plastic and stainless. It even splashed up onto my side windows a bit and on the back of the tailgate. At first I thought it was just mud, but on closer inspection I discovered it was actually paint! It's a pain to get off the truck. I had to use rubbing alcohol on the wheels and plastic, and acetone on the stainless. That's the only thing that would get this off! So far I've spent several hours trying to get this off. I never hit anything while driving so I can only assume some kind of paint bomb was put inside my wheel well or under my tire while parked so that when I drove it it would splash all over everything. Sentry mode never picked anything up. I spent hours so far removing the paint, and not sure I will ever get it all off. It's quite possible that I drove over something, but with all the road rage lately, it's highly unlikely. I have no recollection of hitting anything in the road over the past few days.

The fourth incident was last night, while driving on FSD in the right lane on a 3 lane highway. A guy came up on my lefthand side, very close to my truck, driving around 100MPH in a 70MPH zone. He intentionally swerved into the truck going 100 to try to get me to swerve to the right. I ignored him, and FSD handled it well, moving over slightly to the right, not even flinching.

All of these incidents happened in the last few weeks. I can only imagine how bad it will get this summer! It's gotten to where my wife and I are hesitant to take the truck and park in areas of town that are ultra-liberal.

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[SlegMD]

… I think we may see an uptick during midterms sadly…

 

[Art138]

That’s too bad and unfortunate; I have to say in my area there are plenty of CTs roaming the roads and we don’t get that. Also if recorded /documented and presented to the authorities that harassment is taken seriously. Hopefully you get some type of resolution.

 

[FarAway]

Reckless driving is never acceptable. I hope you reported the road rage incident to the state police.

 

[sys700]

Reckless driving is never acceptable. I hope you reported the road rage incident to the state police.

I seriously considered it. But I was worried this guy was so unhinged, if he got my home address from the police report there's no telling what he would do.

 

[Ken in Miami]

Move to Florida!
I see so many trucks everywhere. I share the road every day with 3/4 and one ton trucks and no one cares what you drive here. Maybe if we took up a donation and got one for Kamala, things would change. Btw the paint thing happens to me a few times a year on all my vehicles. My theory is it is parking lot debri. Not sure I could live in an area where there was such bad vibes. This week red neck latins, raptor drivers, and a bunch of Germans all appreciated the unique aspects of these trucks. Drove close to 400 miles on FSD and was amazed at how good it was! Lots of rain, dirty rear camera and the nags about bad weather were easily dismissed.

 

[sys700]

Move to Florida!
I see so many trucks everywhere. I share the road every day with 3/4 and one ton trucks and no one cares what you drive here. Maybe if we took up a donation and got one for Kamala, things would change. Btw the paint thing happens to me a few times a year on all my vehicles. My theory is it is parking lot debri. Not sure I could live in an area where there was such bad vibes. This week red neck latins, raptor drivers, and a bunch of Germans all appreciated the unique aspects of these trucks. Drove close to 400 miles on FSD and was amazed at how good it was! Lots of rain, dirty rear camera and the nags about bad weather were easily dismissed.

It has crossed my mind many times. Need to wait a few years though.

 

[devdrone6]

I seriously considered it. But I was worried this guy was so unhinged, if he got my home address from the police report there's no telling what he would do.

And this is why they keep doing it. You have proof, use it. Otherwise live in fear as they want you to.

 

[no%X#XMVk65v#cq]

I'm sure you realize this now, but you should not have sped up and kept following that first guy.

 

[RoboTaxi]

The truck is a huge liability to own(where I live). It’s honestly not worth it. I want a vehicle I can park at a remote trail head and not worry about vandalism. RIP cybertruck.

 

[Engi_Nerd]

The truck is a huge liability to own(where I live). It’s honestly not worth it. I want a vehicle I can park at a remote trail head and not worry about vandalism. RIP cybertruck.

I intentionally waited until the last day to order the $60K SAWD in hopes that they sell enough trucks ahead of me for the targeted hate to die down. Sadly, I'm not sure Elon is capable of keeping his mouth shut long enough for that to be a reality.

In general, having driven six Teslas since 2020, our family has experienced this type of behavior on the regular. Anytime we drove our Model Y through deep rural areas to get to trailheads, we regularly got flipped the bird or attempts at coal rolling. Even today, no teenager in a rusted-out pickup seems capable of passing my M3P without riding my bumper, cutting me off, and speeding off like an idiot.

It's definitely much worse now that both ends of the political spectrum hates Tesla. I expect it will only get worse as corporate media continues to unzip society, convincing people that their neighbors are somehow the reason no one can afford anything and not the billionaires buying elections.

 

[Tecyber1]

I seriously considered it. But I was worried this guy was so unhinged, if he got my home address from the police report there's no telling what he would do.

*sigh*

Insane you just let that slide.

 

[Tallgeese179]

Keep it in the glovebox, apply liberally to the area of concern. I'm always stunned by this behavior, since it implies mental illness...but there's two sides to that coin. They're gonna do this to the wrong person one day

Given the vehicles of the other drivers, I think these issues split down economic lines. I have yet to have a Merc/BMW/LR flick me off. Altima, Subaru, F-150? You betcha

 

[gerald cram]

I live in a pretty liberal city in Southwest Michigan. In the past few weeks (as the weather has gotten warmer) things have really heated up in terms of Cybertruck hate.

First incident, driving on the highway towards town, a guy passes me on the right, cuts over into my truck (on FSD), nearly clipping the front of it. My truck swerves to the left to avoid him as he flips me off. I catch up to him to get a good video of his license plate, only to have him brake check me on the highway no less than 7 times, going from 80MPH (on FSD Hurry mode) down to about 5MPH in under half a minute. I have to drive on the left side of the road to avoid hitting him as he continues to flip me off. He pulls off at the next exit, exits his vehicle, and motions me to pull over and fight him!

Second incident. I'm in a restaurant with my family and this car drives up. A girl and her boyfriend walk around my car. He makes a motion as if he is keying my truck as he walks around it.

Third incident was this random guy in a maroon Suburu. I'm driving on FSD. He sees me in his rear view mirror, and begins to rage and wave his fist at me out his window. He slows down so I can pass him by, and you can see in the second video he tries to swerve into me. He continues to give me the thumbs down and shake his fist at me. The video cuts off after this, but as I'm about to slow down to turn left into a restaurant, he drives left to cut me off and tries to clip the front of my vehicle. FSD slows down to avoid an accident, and slows down to make the left into the restaurant. He nearly comes to a full stop in the road in front of me, but realizing I was already pulling into a restaurant, he drives ahead.

My cellphone access was restricted inside the restaurant, so I couldn't monitor the truck in Sentry Mode. I had to walk out to see if the guy had returned to key my truck. You just never know! I didn't notice anything suspicious, but I didn't walk around the entire truck. The next day I noticed this substance on the side of my truck...on the back tire mainly, but in both wheel wells, all along the side of the truck and on the plastic and stainless. It even splashed up onto my side windows a bit and on the back of the tailgate. At first I thought it was just mud, but on closer inspection I discovered it was actually paint! It's a pain to get off the truck. I had to use rubbing alcohol on the wheels and plastic, and acetone on the stainless. That's the only thing that would get this off! So far I've spent several hours trying to get this off. I never hit anything while driving so I can only assume some kind of paint bomb was put inside my wheel well or under my tire while parked so that when I drove it it would splash all over everything. Sentry mode never picked anything up. I spent hours so far removing the paint, and not sure I will ever get it all off. It's quite possible that I drove over something, but with all the road rage lately, it's highly unlikely. I have no recollection of hitting anything in the road over the past few days.

The fourth incident was last night, while driving on FSD in the right lane on a 3 lane highway. A guy came up on my lefthand side, very close to my truck, driving around 100MPH in a 70MPH zone. He intentionally swerved into the truck going 100 to try to get me to swerve to the right. I ignored him, and FSD handled it well, moving over slightly to the right, not even flinching.

All of these incidents happened in the last few weeks. I can only imagine how bad it will get this summer! It's gotten to where my wife and I are hesitant to take the truck and park in areas of town that are ultra-liberal.

 

[Cyberham]

I've got a friend that builds custom off road bumpers. Then you never have to worry about love tapping a guy back, or moving someone out of the way

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