Public REACTIONS to Your Cybertruck (and Your Reaction)? [Admin Warning: NO POLITICS]

[M0unt41nm4n]

LOL. Yes as we all know, conservative coal rolling haters were, are and have always been famously tolerant of soy-boy libtards and their particular brand of irrational hatred is far superior.

Hey hey hey!!!! I own diesels... we aren't all "bad" coal rollers ?

Just only some times? I save my coal for Subarus... not EVs

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[btcrealm]

Wasn't sure if anyone was still updating this thread but I got some fun attention today!

 

[ArizonaTea]

Took kids to a park and poster pasted on truck and something wrote on window with chalk.

A lady nearby witness he did this in front of his son. So sad for him.

Sentry mode will be on forever from now on.

 

[TexasCyberBeast]

Had three things of note this weekend:

1) Went to pizza place, ordered a slice and sat to eat it there. CT was parked in front of the front window, woman who served me asked two co-workers "you like that truck?" And they said "not really." No big deal. Then a few minutes later she says "I don't know what I hate more, that truck or people who buy that truck." I'm 5 feet away just trying to enjoy my slice.

2) I go to home depot with a guy I am working on a job with, we took separate vehicles. As he crossed the parking lot to meet me, he said "a crazy woman was talking crap about your vehicle the whole time I walked next to her." He was shocked this is a normal occurance I live with every day and he couldn't stop talking about that the rest of the day.

3) I go around a bend in the road, a bunch of teenage boys are there on their bikes, blocking me from passing. For 30 seconds they block the road just looking at me. Then one gives me a thumbs down. Finally they move just enough to the side that I can narrowly go by on the incoming traffic lane. As I pass, one of them loud yells "fuck off!."

Just a normal weekend in the CT.

A lot of mentally ill people.

 

[TexasCyberBeast]

My city is 55% non-white. I've gotten the middle finger 20-ish times. All 20 have come from white people. There's unfortunately entitlement amongst the group, it's pretty clear who are the troublemakers.

The ones who are burning up Tesla's and Tesla Dealerships.

 

[kpanda17]

My day of driving yesterday:

30ish woman passenger Subaru, middle finger
Next
Two landscaper’s thumbs up
Next
three young children on bikes, “wow a cybertruck” and a Tesla/M3 acknowledgement
Next
Even in NY Metro, staring like we do
Nothing looks like the Cybertruck
And glad for that

 

[MarsRLPx]

Mine

 

[nicksrandall]

I’ve been loving my Cybertruck since I got it a few months back. I braced myself for some hate, knowing it’s a bold vehicle tied to a polarizing figure. Honestly, I was ready for it—thought I’d get some eye-rolls or snarky comments. But aside from an old lady calling my truck a trash can (which I laughed off), it’s been smooth sailing… until recently.

Today, my wife was driving our Cybertruck with our young kids in the back seat. At an intersection, some biker locked eyes with her and flipped her off—right in front of our kids. A week ago, another driver did something similar. Unprovoked, no reason, just pure hostility. What kind of coward targets a woman with young kids over a truck? It’s beyond frustrating—it’s infuriating.

I get that some folks hate the Cybertruck because of Elon Musk’s politics, and they think they’re taking some moral stand. But flipping off a family? That’s their high ground? It’s pathetic.

I’m trying not to let this get under my skin, but when it’s my family, the protective side kicks in hard. Has anyone else dealt with this kind of nonsense? How do you shake it off and not let it ruin the Cybertruck experience? I’m all ears for advice, because I want to keep enjoying this beast without these clowns getting in my head.

 

[devdrone6]

God made some lemons, and they are sour- just don’t try to make lemonade with them and move on with this knowledge. ?

Nothing else can be done.

 

[hemiarch]

Complex question. It obviously troubles many of us. I occasionally get flipped off in a bluey themed truck with three car seats in the back.
I use the experience to teach my kids that “jealousy can make you ugly” because other explanations I think would be over their heads and I want them to at least learn something.

The reality is that they are exactly as you eloquently stated, cowards. You can either teach your kids how not to be cowards based on that experience or how to become cowards themselves by giving up their convictions for other people’s stupidity. Simple choice for me.

What I tell my kids is that not everyone has both the courage and the means to drive what is arguably the most revolutionary vehicle in recent history and that those that lack one or the other can be resentful for that reason.
Basically, I tell them the truth. I think that’s more often than not the best parenting strategy. Kids will surprise you sometimes in how their emotional maturity rises to the occasion given the opportunity.

Now, if one of these douches does anything to compromise my families safety, that’s a whole other thing. Everything that happens around our trucks is on camera. Call the cops.

 

[Fugue]

I use the experience to teach my kids that “jealousy can make you ugly” because other explanations I think would be over their heads and I want them to at least learn something.

I like this approach. It's something they can see with their own eyes.

 

[Hookalakupua]

I’ve been loving my Cybertruck since I got it a few months back. I braced myself for some hate, knowing it’s a bold vehicle tied to a polarizing figure. Honestly, I was ready for it—thought I’d get some eye-rolls or snarky comments. But aside from an old lady calling my truck a trash can (which I laughed off), it’s been smooth sailing… until recently.

Today, my wife was driving our Cybertruck with our young kids in the back seat. At an intersection, some biker locked eyes with her and flipped her off—right in front of our kids. A week ago, another driver did something similar. Unprovoked, no reason, just pure hostility. What kind of coward targets a woman with young kids over a truck? It’s beyond frustrating—it’s infuriating.

I get that some folks hate the Cybertruck because of Elon Musk’s politics, and they think they’re taking some moral stand. But flipping off a family? That’s their high ground? It’s pathetic.

I’m trying not to let this get under my skin, but when it’s my family, the protective side kicks in hard. Has anyone else dealt with this kind of nonsense? How do you shake it off and not let it ruin the Cybertruck experience? I’m all ears for advice, because I want to keep enjoying this beast without these clowns getting in my head.

Same situations early on. We have both of our kids permission to roll down their window in order to smile and wave! We also pick up our cell phones to start recording them and that usually solves things immediately! I also set our scroll wheel to record from “x” amount of minutes before, to what I think is a total of 10 minutes. Once you have that video, it’s generally not hard to find a way to identify them and then you have a choice as to whether or not you want to send it to their employer.

If all else fails, I usually just take off my hat and they quickly realize that my “darker complexion” and bald head, probably lend itself to a generalized type of person that they would rather not “interact” with! ??

 

[hemiarch]

I like the idea of sending the footage to the persons boss or wife or whatever. Just not sure I want to be an investigator and figure out who they are and all that.
plus, then there is a chance you will have an ongoing interaction with said idiot which isn’t at all what I want.
I’d rather just sail away in almost all cases. Have you seen any of those road rage reality tv shows? No thanks.

 

[RayzorBEV]

I'm sorry that your family has to be exposed to such ugly display of hate.
I have encountered numerous, mature "haters" that were actually intelligent and educated but suffer from mental illnesses along with misguided political ideologies (hence, extremely difficult to reason with them.)
Others are young college age people with sexual identity disorders and/or MDD/PDD/BPD (again, makes it extremely difficult to reason with them) lacking any aim in life, therefore, are looking for a cause to deflect their personal emptiness and frustrations. Naturally, they are easily brainwashed/recruited by the latest anti-Tesla propaganda being spilled all over school campuses and social media. These rhetoric energized them to lend support to these causes and to express, often violently, against their targets in order for them to feel a sense of purpose and worth.
These haters are just puppets. What we need to do is to go after the organizers and their puppet masters; people funding these misinformation.

 

[arnav_8]

I am sorry your family had to go through this rudeness. It is area dependent too. I live in Massachusetts and I have a 2%~5% hate rate.

Most people who are rude have nothing better to do, are insecure and just want to show they are worth something when they are not.

When I get the finger, I tell myself “Does this idiot know the difference between resistance and impedance?” Or something more advanced that “I can count to 10 because I have 10 fingers” - The answer is probably No

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