You're driving down the road and see a Cybertruck - what do you do?

[Jhodgesatmb]

With all the potato-level 10 second videos we've seen, I figured we should plan how to handle our own real world CT sighting.

Here's how I would like to respond:

1. Calmly notice the CT while maintaining good driving form
2. Allow it to get in front of me so my dashcam has a full view
3. If possible, wait until a stop, roll down the window and take a few pictures
4. Give the driver a thumbs up and a polite wave
5. If I'm not in a car, turn my phone to landscape position, hold it high over traffic and take a 4k video until the CT is out of sight.

Here's how I think it would really go:

1. Notice the CT and begin swerving wildly, both hands pointing, rasping "OHHHMYGAWLOO-LOOKATITLOOKOH"
2. Whip my phone out the window diagonally and record 8 seconds of my own side mirror
3. Pop a wheel onto the curb and roll up the bike lane shouting "WHAT WAS YOUR RESERVATION NUMBER?!"

Kidding aside, life might be kind of tough for the first few hundred CT owners. I imagine they'll get mobbed like this all the time.

I will hit the record button on Tesla dashcam and get all views in HD. That is, if I don't freak out as you suggest. At least I don't have to pull my phone out to do it.

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[Bill906]

Toss your cell phone on the ground. Don't turn it horizontal and shoot a long, steady video... That's for movie makers. Then, pull out a Nokia Flip phone, set its video quality to "potato", and then film your A pillar, steering wheel, a glimpse of the Cybertruck, your arm, then your dash, the car behind the Cybertruck, a glimpse of the Cybertruck, and then your dash again. Keep in mind, holding the phone steady is NOT, I repeat, NOT important. People appreciate short, vertical, shaky footage.

If you are uncertain, see UFO videos, bigfoot photos, and Loch Ness Monster picture to get the style right.

But most important, make sure you skip over anything that may be new and keep your phone in vertical mode to ensure you will continually cut the Cybertruck out of your video.

This is assuming of course they already smeared some petroleum jelly on the lens.

 

[Ehninger1212]

Crash.

 

[Ehninger1212]

From my experience as a DeLorean owner:

• Drivers will follow you to work. Weird!
• Drivers will follow you home. Creepy!
• Drivers will try to photograph you without watching where they're going.
• Expect an interrogation everywhere you stop. They won't care if you're in a hurry.
• Helpful people will regale you with "facts" about your vehicle that they saw on Facebook ("you know those are made in China rite?")
• They will insist you're wrong when you try to correct them, often getting angry.
• Many will not know what it is, more often than you might imagine.
• They will tell you a terrible joke about Elon, or Tesla, or EVs. Laugh anyway.
• Flustered, they will ask stupid, irrelevant questions such as "would you sell it for a million dollars" or "is that real?"
• They will want pictures.
• They will want to touch it.
• They will want to jump in.
• They will want to jump in and then take pictures. Many pictures. While they call their friends.
• They will offer to break your windows for you ("No, thanks!")
• They will offer to prove that stainless can actually rust ("No, thanks!")
• They will post "CT SIGHTING! ON SOUTH STREET OMG" on Instagram
• Two minutes later your wife will text "Hey doesn't your ex live on South Street"
• Ten minutes later your boss will text "Is that you? I thought you were working today"

I recently learned my neighbor has a time Machine, thanks for the list of talking points for the next time I see him.

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