Road Rage of Tesla Driver

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[Diehard]

I got pushed around a lot when I drove my wife’s green Subaru. I drive my F150 the same way but have never had any incident and people leave me alone. I have a feeling that EV drivers are perceived as tree huggers that can be pushed around without consequence .

As much as I think there is no place for this kind of behavior and he got what he deserves, I am glad this video is floating around to show EV drivers could be just as big of an a-hole as everyone else. Just leave them alone.

 

[CyberGus]

That dude needs some serious therapy.

Or at least a stress-ball

 

[Diehard]

That dude needs some serious therapy.

Or at least a stress-ball

He definitely does. I do however think it is uncool to see a footage out of context. Since I, like a lot of folks with Y chromosome, have a little bit of crazy built in would like to see what did set off this dude. Why he lost it on these people but not others. I am not saying anything justify this behavior but I want to measure his crazy against mine.

 

[LCS]

How is this Cybertruck related??

 

[ÆCIII]

Regardless of whether the guy got what's coming to him, more obvious to me was the salivating hunger of the media talking heads for selected types of 'dirty laundry' in this report. I think they cared more about that than anything to do with the victims or behavior of road rage itself.

The MSM has long been 'cherry-picking' and choosing their reports and emphasis, and one can easily spot their salacious tone when saying the word "Tesla" in the segment. The guy's behavior had nothing to do with any brand of car, but the MSM in this story intended to imply a negative association with the brand.

If they were told by their parent company that they had to air the segment without using any brand reference or the word "Tesla" at all, how enthused do we think they would be? If the guy had been driving a GM car instead of a Tesla, would they have still noted the brand? How many other road rage or other incidents of bad behavior have the MSM ignored, regardless of vehicle brand, simply because there's no 'agenda value' in it for them??

This is why I've long known the MSM are just useless ammunition of corporations and factions, rather than any objective source of information. I'm one of many that's dumped them like a bad and unhealthy habit. Some foods will taste good providing limited sustenance, even though toxic ingredients are often within. Likewise, the MSM will air stories partially true but most often with agenda narratives or themes in there somewhere.

- ÆCIII

 

[SSonnentag]

Yep. MSM exists for two reasons:

1) Make money

2) Mold the thinking and opinions of the masses.

The MSM has no interest in relaying factual information for the sake of dispensing intelligent and unbiased data to anyone.

 

[HaulingAss]

How is this Cybertruck related??

A better question might be "How is this Tesla related".

Can you imagine a news story starting out with "A Buick driver, involved in several Southern California road rage incidents..."

Ten years ago, this story would have started out with something like, "A 36-year-old Southern California man..."

 

[sstevens805]

I wonder if he has more than one shirt, only green shirts, or his green shirt is his rage shirt . . .

 

[LoneWolfO6]

Chromosome or not, seen many alpha drivers come out if they are behind someone going one under the speed limit! Makes people run red light, stop signs and jump curbs.

 

[Crissa]

I'm glad he got prosecuted, and I'm a little worried it took terrorizing a dozen different instances before he did get prosecuted.

Tesla's Sentry Mode will help prosecute these things much more quickly. And hopefully before it's big enough for jail time to be required.

-Crissa

 

[CyberGus]

How is this Cybertruck related??

Welcome to the "General Automotive and Off-Topic Chat" forum

 

[Diehard]

Can you imagine a news story starting out with "A Buick driver, involved in several Southern California road rage incidents..."

Now, that would be news. I owned two Buicks. Both had a feature that give you warnings and wake up calls if you left your turn signal on for too long. Their slogan to market it to people under 80 was "not your father's Buick". I would definitely watch a youtube video of a grandma in a Buick loosing it on the highway. Last one I saw was 14 years ago. It does not happen very often.

 

[PilotPete]

This guy is lucky on two counts. First, he didn’t get a longer sentence. (Not that California wouldn’t or won’t let him out early) Second, he has yet to run into someone with a weapon. Legally, a tire iron or any metal object like that is a “deadly weapon”, and as such, can be met with force from any other deadly weapon under the laws of self defense. Yes, there is more to self defense law than just that, there are 5 basic principles that must ALL be met, but in the video, he pretty much hands a person all that they would need to “stop” him.

 

[Diehard]

Chromosome or not, seen many alpha drivers come out if they are behind someone going one under the speed limit! Makes people run red light, stop signs and jump curbs.

I talked to a dude that moved from a high density area to Maine where most roads have one lane in each direction and there is a high population of older relaxed people. He said the first few months after moving, he was loosing his Sh. regularly. After passing many elderly chill drivers just to get stuck behind another one, he realized the state will never run out of them so he became one of them.

The cure for road rage maniacs is Maine.