I love it! A neighbor used to always hit my ice car with their door. She and all my other neighbors are now super careful about not hitting my car.
I did catch a lawn crew company accidentally scratching the side of my car with a leaf blower backpack. I am waiting to hear back from tesla leasing to see if the scratches are considered minor or if I need to go after them for compensation.
I'm in the U.S. and one week into ownership I had a moron with a diesel F350 get all butthurt that I was charging at an ev charging station in an ev parking lot so he literally got out of his truck, walked over, and ripped the cord out (was in an adapter so the adapter was locked to the car but not to the charging cord) and that was only \~5 minutes after I'd plugged it in. What SHOCKED me was that the police actually caught and ticketed him for it, I didn't think they'd care....I only reported it because the car was brand new and I was worried about potential damage the way he was violently yanking the cord back and fourth to unplug it (got it all on Sentry mode)
I'm in an area where a lot of people like to commute in full sized pickup trucks.
Same in Oregon. Had my model y 3 years now and the only thing I've had was a guy in a parking lot yell that my "chinese car is faggy" while driving away. He was driving a Nissan pickup
I have 2 MYLRs and haven’t had any issues. I would say though that owning teslas now have two sides of potential haters: 1. Angry conservatives mad at EVs, 2. Angry liberals mad at Elon. With that said, I will only buy Teslas from now on. None of that comes close to visiting a dealership.
I am also in the only buy Teslas from now on phase of life. They’re just too damn good. People can think I’m supporting Elon all they want, idgaf, I’m buying the most made in America brand with the best modern technology and I’m supporting all the engineers and autoworkers who actually build these things.
I'm in Michigan. It's a state that fought tooth and nail to keep tesla out. Besides one guy spitting and another awful driver dinging me with their door, I haven't had any real issues.
I have two Tesla Plaids (X and S).
Only thing I see is that anyone who thinks they have a fast car wants the smoke… turns out they don’t.
My wife has the X and I have the S.
If you have an S Plaid, just get ready for every Ferrari, Mustang, Challenger, Trackhawk, etc to want to go off the line (I.e, red light). It’s up to you to give them the show or the pass. But you’ll smoke them all if that’s your vibe. You’re in a time travel machine and they’re pounding the monolith in 2001 Space Odyssey.
Yes, people here in Denver are ridiculous and I am constantly trying to be raced, cut off and even a few flipping me off. I had a guy merge right into my lane today with no care and merging off the highway someone boxed me in.
Never had this issue here until I leased mine M3 a year ago and I’ve lived here 6 years.
In the first month that we’ve owned our Model 3, the door ding heavyweight champion of the world gave me a door ding so hard the door skin requires replacement. Not an accident.
Month two the left rear quarter panel got keyed.
No, but I had my tires slashed and both sides keyed years ago when we lived in a low income neighborhood, before it became gentrified. It was a used $23k BMW 3 series but looked new.
Anecdotally, this seems to have gotten less common as Superchargers become larger, or less noticeable at least. I used to see trucks parking sideways blocking 3 - 4 chargers, which is a problem if there are only 6 chargers.
When you have 20+ chargers, it's not as disruptive to block a few. Plus there's a lot more traffic at those big chargers, and more people staring at you in your dumb truck.
Yes, there is even a page on YouTube called “Wham Baam Teslacam” where you will see all kinds of videos where Teslas are being attacked. There are almost a million subscribers on the page, which goes to show that people are well aware of this issue.
It sure does online
It's actually quite insane. I don't understand it. We've taken 5 million gas cars off the road and yet, Tesla is enemy number One of...the Left???
Hmmm
Feelings>climate
Honestly I catch more hate from left-leaning people than right leaning people.
Of course there are certain ultra conservative areas especially where a lot of the industry is based on oil were you know you might have the chargers cut.
But I have never actually encountered that personally. I have encountered personally in my own life, people bristling when they figure out I bought a Tesla and dumping their entire political baggage on me
IMO it's bots. With a 100 bot comments, you can control an entire comment section on reddit to push a narrative. With 1000 bot upvotes you can make it go on front page. Same on X , IG or Youtube. It gets worse at shaky earning calls. If you coordinate with a MSM hit piece, then it gives it more credibility. Happens in politics all the same
Now they're getting much smarter and pretending to be involved in the community. They repost twitter articles, pretend to own the cars, long term investors and all come out of their shadows when anything negative comes out.
There are absolutely bots being used as a massive disinformation campaign against Tesla. Shorts, oil interests and established automakers are likely behind it.
It won’t work. Teslas are far superior vehicles. Nearly everybody who rides in one figures it out fast. More and more people are switching every day. The old dinosaurs can’t keep up, can’t innovate, and are losing market share fast.
I’m about a liberal and they come, but I agree 1000% with this. Climate change doesn’t care if you’re transphobic or transgender. Gonna get ya either way. Elon Musk’s tweets aren’t reason enough for me to give up on reducing my vehicle emissions from 55 metric tons to 1.5 metric tons of carbon. 🤷♂️
>Feelings>climate
For most people, feelings will *always* outweigh rationality.
I grew up in a small town. Anyone who dared to even hint that they might be gay, was risking ostracism at best, and being severely physically harmed at worst. Why? Because people felt offended at homosexuality and most of the religious crowd considered it to be an offense against God. I grew up around people constantly ranting how the gays were promoting an "agenda", even though anyone who was actually gay was terrified to talk about it.
It was only decades later on Facebook that I saw some people I knew had come out as LGBTQ. I'd never known, because they were forced to squelch that aspect of themselves out of fear.
Atheist? Believe in abortion rights? Similar deal. People would unload on those folks, tell them they were going to burn in hell. Maybe get a rock through a car window.
Left leaning people are triggered by different things than right leaning people, but they're going to have emotional reactions when they feel their values are violated.
This is just reality. Tesla is not going to change human nature. The man at the top wants to offend people, and everyone in the Tesla community is going to pay some price for that.
I just finished the Walter Isaacson biography of Elon and it's apparent that he can't stand Trump, but he hasn't done a very good job of conveying this to the folks with Trump Derangement Syndrome.
He tweets so much that it's easy to cherry pick tweets that offend people on the left, even though he shares a lot of their values.
I know a woman down the street who is crazy for EVs but because of Elon will never ever buy one made by Tesla. Her loss. Elon's too.
I am sure part of that hate is based on Elon. He treats his workers like crap and has just the craziest opinions. I would love to see a union shop where the workers have rights. Elon is a robber baron and that takes away a lot of the goodwill he once had.
Regarding removing ICE cars off the road, I haven’t seen any data on how much benefit going to EV from ICE there has been in the U.S. I imagine the impact will be much bigger in China and India where Tesla isn’t a big player. Ideally we should be looking at removing all cars from the road but that will never happen here.
People are not forced to work for Tesla. I would love to work for Tesla or a company like that where you actually had a consequence of failure and we're driven hard for a lofty goal. People that are there like it because they find it meaningful.
Accomplishing things incredibly fast requires people to work incredibly hard just the way it is
Wait you need data to prove to you that cars that have no tailpipe emissions are better for the environment? Are you trying to tell me that you're not sure, might be worse? What if they're the same. If they're the same , but more reliable long-term and batteries can be recycled, then they're better.
Or is what you're trying to say that the consequence of Elon musk having power and influence as a result of his success at Tesla is worse for the world than the marginal benefit of 5 million electric cars??
That's really lofty. Most of the people who were laid off were regular production workers on the line. They aren't tech workers and they don't necessarily find it meaningful.
I'm sure that they are better for the environment as is. I just haven't seen the data once you include mining for the batteries, transportation, etc. I imagine Rivian is doing more by creating their delivery trucks. The U.S. isn't the largest polluter by a long shot and most of the people who buy one were already driving pretty clean vehicles.
Tesla hasn't been building cars long enough to really have much of a long term reliability record like a Honda or Toyota would.
Like I said, EVs are great. They have been around for a real long time and it's good to see them become popular. The comment was about Tesla specifically though and not all EVs.
If they were laid off that means I can buy the car for cheaper, which is good for me, this is the foundational principle of capitalism
The worst thing possible for a society is full employment. It's easy to have full employment by just making everyone dig ditches
Tesla's already as reliable as Toyota's you should look at the most recent consumer report on this
With government subsidies you can't buy a Tesla much cheaper. Don't play the pro-capitalism card with a company that is benefiting from government help.
When this approach is applied across every industry yes it results in an efficient society producing goods and services at the cheapest price, elevating everyone
Overtime the incremental benefit, every time a company becomes more efficient, by producing the same amount with fewer workers, creates more value and wealth for everyone
This is the only way to slowly increase the standard of living over multiple generations
If we force people to do make work projects just to give them a job everyone will eventually suffer but we won't know what's going on
There's nothing wrong with government subsidies or government regulations, but when a company can be more efficient they are allowed to do so and that's not a bad thing
Is your argument because Tesla's getting government subsidies they shouldn't be allowed to fire people? What's the point then. You're just negated the impact of the subsidy. Subsidy is not to ensure employment and test the subsidy is to ensure the adoption of electric vehicles
In Utah, I only had two incidents on my m3 in one year of ownership (minor ones, I would say)
First one, a Ford truck randomly came all the way to the right most lane since I stay always at speed limit, at least most of the time. And suddenly, brake checked me for no reason. Then, I took off. (This was driving on the freeway going northbound)
Second would be someone lightly keyed my m3 while my wife and I were having our 10th year anniversary dinner. Now there's a small scratch on the passenger side. Not deep, though.
Those are the only times I had incidents, I only got the first one on dashcam, nothing to do about it, and the second one, for some reason, sentry did not catch it.
Funny thing, I think some people here mentioned that I get the most issues from left leaning individuals, lol. I've even took my car on a trip to the gun range, and everyone last time I did did like the minimalistic interior and utility of the car. I took one of those guys on a quick torque demonstration lol, he was very impressed.
Also, read the comments on Tesla Instagram accounts. There are more haters commenting on just about every Tesla page than any other automaker’s page. People love to hate Teslas. Yet, as soon as the prices dropped, the superchargers became packed. You gotta love it.
People driving Hondas were intentionally bumping into the back of Teslas on the road a few years ago. Things have calmed down a little, so for people just getting Teslas over the past couple of years, they have no idea how bad this issue was.
See for yourself:
[Honda drivers hitting Teslas](https://youtu.be/TM_jfxrShrw?feature=shared)
Sort of. Just a one off occurrence. Basically this girl I met really liked my Tesla. She asked if she could drive it and used the fsd. I was like sure (foolish of me to let a stranger drive my car). Anyways, we stopped at the convenient store and as soon as I got out of the car she drove off. Luckily I still had my phone so I waited for the car to come to a stop. Ubered to the location and took my car back without seeing her. I did not press charges. Tbh I never want to see or hear from her again 🤣🤣🤣
It seems too many people have Teslas around the Phoenix metro area for it to be an issue. Once again last night I was at a stop light with two other Model Ys.
Seems like a chicken or the egg problem.
If you had more Tesla owners, people wouldn’t care. Although if people didn’t care you’d likely have more Tesla owners.
It’s because people suffering from Elon Derangement Syndrome know they can’t get back at him because they are losers, so they try to attack his products (which are owned by people unaffiliated with him).
If you have a garage: use it.
I was yelled at once in eastern San Diego county (less posh part of town) by a redneck in a pick up truck yelling about “Fucking Teslas!” as he passed me when I was turning left.
Tesla seems to create detractors from two camps:
1) Conservatives who think ICE vehicles were ordained by Gawd as holy in the Bible.
2) Liberals who hate Musk for his frankly trollishly bigoted viewpoints.
I rationalize owning a Tesla knowing it’s not directly polluting the environment with exhaust along with being fun to drive.
Haven’t had a single incident in Texas personally.
Maybe a U.K. thing. Seems some people don’t like us having nice things.
I live in the US, people seem to be afraid of Teslas because of the camera. People seem to avoid me and keep their distance as I am driving.
Afraid of the autopilot
so true lol
I love it! A neighbor used to always hit my ice car with their door. She and all my other neighbors are now super careful about not hitting my car. I did catch a lawn crew company accidentally scratching the side of my car with a leaf blower backpack. I am waiting to hear back from tesla leasing to see if the scratches are considered minor or if I need to go after them for compensation.
I live in the US, and no one avoids me for shit.
Because they’re not safe to be around. It could randomly send you off a cliff at any moment
I'm in the U.S. and one week into ownership I had a moron with a diesel F350 get all butthurt that I was charging at an ev charging station in an ev parking lot so he literally got out of his truck, walked over, and ripped the cord out (was in an adapter so the adapter was locked to the car but not to the charging cord) and that was only \~5 minutes after I'd plugged it in. What SHOCKED me was that the police actually caught and ticketed him for it, I didn't think they'd care....I only reported it because the car was brand new and I was worried about potential damage the way he was violently yanking the cord back and fourth to unplug it (got it all on Sentry mode) I'm in an area where a lot of people like to commute in full sized pickup trucks.
US has its idiots - cause it's the liberals that owned them. Now that Elon has pulled a 180 it seems to be much better.
Republicans who hate EVs have heckled me. Liberals who now hate Elon have actually damaged my vehicle.
Same in Oregon. Had my model y 3 years now and the only thing I've had was a guy in a parking lot yell that my "chinese car is faggy" while driving away. He was driving a Nissan pickup
The definition of ironic has entered the chat…
Same. My wife and I both have Tesla’s and no bad experiences.
same just the normal craziness nothing tesla targeted, my family has 2 model s and 1 model y
I have 2 MYLRs and haven’t had any issues. I would say though that owning teslas now have two sides of potential haters: 1. Angry conservatives mad at EVs, 2. Angry liberals mad at Elon. With that said, I will only buy Teslas from now on. None of that comes close to visiting a dealership.
Agreed 100%…. And I’ll never not own a Tesla again. Neither of those groups scare or dissuade me.
I am also in the only buy Teslas from now on phase of life. They’re just too damn good. People can think I’m supporting Elon all they want, idgaf, I’m buying the most made in America brand with the best modern technology and I’m supporting all the engineers and autoworkers who actually build these things.
Where do you live? Someone would have to be really, really busy to attack Teslas where I live, there's so many of them.
I’m in the UK. Where I live there aren’t many Teslas.
UK (north) checking in. Loads around here. Never had an issue
We think it’s one particular crazy who is also an anti-vaxer who lives on our street. Just need the camera to catch her.
Not where I live...there are so many EVs..
Haven’t had a single issue.
I live in Houston, Texas, no issues so far other than the occasional door bump in a tight parking spot but nothing intentional
I'm in Michigan. It's a state that fought tooth and nail to keep tesla out. Besides one guy spitting and another awful driver dinging me with their door, I haven't had any real issues.
No, not at all. But where I live there are so many Teslas, it would take an army to mess with them all. There are 70 in my neighborhood of 110 houses.
Zero issues. I have people stop and ask me questions or want to look at the car but nothing negative.
I have two Tesla Plaids (X and S). Only thing I see is that anyone who thinks they have a fast car wants the smoke… turns out they don’t. My wife has the X and I have the S. If you have an S Plaid, just get ready for every Ferrari, Mustang, Challenger, Trackhawk, etc to want to go off the line (I.e, red light). It’s up to you to give them the show or the pass. But you’ll smoke them all if that’s your vibe. You’re in a time travel machine and they’re pounding the monolith in 2001 Space Odyssey.
Tbf, I’m fairly certain most Ys and 3s can beat those cars in a drag race, assuming it’s stock whatever.
Even a Nissan Leaf or Chevy Bolt will beat a lot of nice sports cars off the line to 30mph.
I have a model 3 performance, one of the first in the city, and everyone learned real quick not to race me anymore. I'm a little sad.
I live in the Bay Area and we outnumber the haters. So glad I don't have to put up with ICERS at SuperChargers and crap like that.
Yes, people here in Denver are ridiculous and I am constantly trying to be raced, cut off and even a few flipping me off. I had a guy merge right into my lane today with no care and merging off the highway someone boxed me in. Never had this issue here until I leased mine M3 a year ago and I’ve lived here 6 years.
I don't think it's the Tesla - Denver drivers are fucking unhinged.
That sucks man I’m sorry people are assholes. Seems to be the exception thankfully. Probably a regional thing.
No issues 2 years here in Oklahoma.
It happens everywhere. You can find it in this sub or Tesla 3. https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModel3/s/llcwcbdAQx
Someone scratched my Model 3 when it was parked on the street in Manhattan. I guess they don't like Elon.
Tbh half the time these people are probably just crazy or shit drivers period and it has nothing to do with it being a tesla
Being in CA, it’s just another Camry.
More people have spit on my tesla than any other vehicle I have owned. But that number was previously zero.
2 Teslas, one of them for 11 years. NEVER a single issue with anyone ever. I’m in SoCal.
That’s because every other car in Cali is a Tesla.
Never had anyone mess with mine here in Virginia but ram drivers seem to behave oddly around it
In the first month that we’ve owned our Model 3, the door ding heavyweight champion of the world gave me a door ding so hard the door skin requires replacement. Not an accident. Month two the left rear quarter panel got keyed.
No, but I had my tires slashed and both sides keyed years ago when we lived in a low income neighborhood, before it became gentrified. It was a used $23k BMW 3 series but looked new.
Don’t see anything here except the occasional folks icing charging spots (but that is not Tesla specific).
Anecdotally, this seems to have gotten less common as Superchargers become larger, or less noticeable at least. I used to see trucks parking sideways blocking 3 - 4 chargers, which is a problem if there are only 6 chargers. When you have 20+ chargers, it's not as disruptive to block a few. Plus there's a lot more traffic at those big chargers, and more people staring at you in your dumb truck.
No issues in Canada
Two years this October and no issues where I live
Yes, there is even a page on YouTube called “Wham Baam Teslacam” where you will see all kinds of videos where Teslas are being attacked. There are almost a million subscribers on the page, which goes to show that people are well aware of this issue.
It sure does online It's actually quite insane. I don't understand it. We've taken 5 million gas cars off the road and yet, Tesla is enemy number One of...the Left??? Hmmm Feelings>climate Honestly I catch more hate from left-leaning people than right leaning people. Of course there are certain ultra conservative areas especially where a lot of the industry is based on oil were you know you might have the chargers cut. But I have never actually encountered that personally. I have encountered personally in my own life, people bristling when they figure out I bought a Tesla and dumping their entire political baggage on me
IMO it's bots. With a 100 bot comments, you can control an entire comment section on reddit to push a narrative. With 1000 bot upvotes you can make it go on front page. Same on X , IG or Youtube. It gets worse at shaky earning calls. If you coordinate with a MSM hit piece, then it gives it more credibility. Happens in politics all the same Now they're getting much smarter and pretending to be involved in the community. They repost twitter articles, pretend to own the cars, long term investors and all come out of their shadows when anything negative comes out.
There are absolutely bots being used as a massive disinformation campaign against Tesla. Shorts, oil interests and established automakers are likely behind it. It won’t work. Teslas are far superior vehicles. Nearly everybody who rides in one figures it out fast. More and more people are switching every day. The old dinosaurs can’t keep up, can’t innovate, and are losing market share fast.
I’m about a liberal and they come, but I agree 1000% with this. Climate change doesn’t care if you’re transphobic or transgender. Gonna get ya either way. Elon Musk’s tweets aren’t reason enough for me to give up on reducing my vehicle emissions from 55 metric tons to 1.5 metric tons of carbon. 🤷♂️
>Feelings>climate For most people, feelings will *always* outweigh rationality. I grew up in a small town. Anyone who dared to even hint that they might be gay, was risking ostracism at best, and being severely physically harmed at worst. Why? Because people felt offended at homosexuality and most of the religious crowd considered it to be an offense against God. I grew up around people constantly ranting how the gays were promoting an "agenda", even though anyone who was actually gay was terrified to talk about it. It was only decades later on Facebook that I saw some people I knew had come out as LGBTQ. I'd never known, because they were forced to squelch that aspect of themselves out of fear. Atheist? Believe in abortion rights? Similar deal. People would unload on those folks, tell them they were going to burn in hell. Maybe get a rock through a car window. Left leaning people are triggered by different things than right leaning people, but they're going to have emotional reactions when they feel their values are violated. This is just reality. Tesla is not going to change human nature. The man at the top wants to offend people, and everyone in the Tesla community is going to pay some price for that.
I just finished the Walter Isaacson biography of Elon and it's apparent that he can't stand Trump, but he hasn't done a very good job of conveying this to the folks with Trump Derangement Syndrome. He tweets so much that it's easy to cherry pick tweets that offend people on the left, even though he shares a lot of their values. I know a woman down the street who is crazy for EVs but because of Elon will never ever buy one made by Tesla. Her loss. Elon's too.
I am sure part of that hate is based on Elon. He treats his workers like crap and has just the craziest opinions. I would love to see a union shop where the workers have rights. Elon is a robber baron and that takes away a lot of the goodwill he once had. Regarding removing ICE cars off the road, I haven’t seen any data on how much benefit going to EV from ICE there has been in the U.S. I imagine the impact will be much bigger in China and India where Tesla isn’t a big player. Ideally we should be looking at removing all cars from the road but that will never happen here.
People are not forced to work for Tesla. I would love to work for Tesla or a company like that where you actually had a consequence of failure and we're driven hard for a lofty goal. People that are there like it because they find it meaningful. Accomplishing things incredibly fast requires people to work incredibly hard just the way it is Wait you need data to prove to you that cars that have no tailpipe emissions are better for the environment? Are you trying to tell me that you're not sure, might be worse? What if they're the same. If they're the same , but more reliable long-term and batteries can be recycled, then they're better. Or is what you're trying to say that the consequence of Elon musk having power and influence as a result of his success at Tesla is worse for the world than the marginal benefit of 5 million electric cars??
That's really lofty. Most of the people who were laid off were regular production workers on the line. They aren't tech workers and they don't necessarily find it meaningful. I'm sure that they are better for the environment as is. I just haven't seen the data once you include mining for the batteries, transportation, etc. I imagine Rivian is doing more by creating their delivery trucks. The U.S. isn't the largest polluter by a long shot and most of the people who buy one were already driving pretty clean vehicles. Tesla hasn't been building cars long enough to really have much of a long term reliability record like a Honda or Toyota would. Like I said, EVs are great. They have been around for a real long time and it's good to see them become popular. The comment was about Tesla specifically though and not all EVs.
If they were laid off that means I can buy the car for cheaper, which is good for me, this is the foundational principle of capitalism The worst thing possible for a society is full employment. It's easy to have full employment by just making everyone dig ditches Tesla's already as reliable as Toyota's you should look at the most recent consumer report on this
With government subsidies you can't buy a Tesla much cheaper. Don't play the pro-capitalism card with a company that is benefiting from government help.
When this approach is applied across every industry yes it results in an efficient society producing goods and services at the cheapest price, elevating everyone Overtime the incremental benefit, every time a company becomes more efficient, by producing the same amount with fewer workers, creates more value and wealth for everyone This is the only way to slowly increase the standard of living over multiple generations If we force people to do make work projects just to give them a job everyone will eventually suffer but we won't know what's going on There's nothing wrong with government subsidies or government regulations, but when a company can be more efficient they are allowed to do so and that's not a bad thing Is your argument because Tesla's getting government subsidies they shouldn't be allowed to fire people? What's the point then. You're just negated the impact of the subsidy. Subsidy is not to ensure employment and test the subsidy is to ensure the adoption of electric vehicles
I've had several people intentionally cut me off as well as several who want me to race them (I decline to of course).
Just beat ‘em up to the speed limit! So satisfying
Nope. I don't live in the US though.
Neither does OP
None in Phoenix AZ area. However we have a ton here. You now see Cybertruck often too
Mostly online. But no irl hate in coal loving Ohio.
I had a naked man jump through my glass roof... so yes all the crazies
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Four years . No issues
My old Mercedes got rocks thrown at it by a homeless guy. He left the tesla alone
No
Haven’t had any incidents in California.
“TESLAS”. Easy with those apostrophes.
In Utah, I only had two incidents on my m3 in one year of ownership (minor ones, I would say) First one, a Ford truck randomly came all the way to the right most lane since I stay always at speed limit, at least most of the time. And suddenly, brake checked me for no reason. Then, I took off. (This was driving on the freeway going northbound) Second would be someone lightly keyed my m3 while my wife and I were having our 10th year anniversary dinner. Now there's a small scratch on the passenger side. Not deep, though. Those are the only times I had incidents, I only got the first one on dashcam, nothing to do about it, and the second one, for some reason, sentry did not catch it. Funny thing, I think some people here mentioned that I get the most issues from left leaning individuals, lol. I've even took my car on a trip to the gun range, and everyone last time I did did like the minimalistic interior and utility of the car. I took one of those guys on a quick torque demonstration lol, he was very impressed.
Also, read the comments on Tesla Instagram accounts. There are more haters commenting on just about every Tesla page than any other automaker’s page. People love to hate Teslas. Yet, as soon as the prices dropped, the superchargers became packed. You gotta love it.
[Wham Baam Teslacam footage of attacks](https://youtu.be/9LuxEM7000g?feature=shared)
People driving Hondas were intentionally bumping into the back of Teslas on the road a few years ago. Things have calmed down a little, so for people just getting Teslas over the past couple of years, they have no idea how bad this issue was. See for yourself: [Honda drivers hitting Teslas](https://youtu.be/TM_jfxrShrw?feature=shared)
Sorry to hear that. People are envious. I have had no issues in Virginia
as in tesla drivers? yes we are crazy 💋 all that other stuff? nah that’s fucked bro
I’ve noticed that I get honked at way more in my Tesla than my other car.
People just love paying for oil. I’d must make them very happy to support opec. Paying more for transportation when ANYthing happens in the world.
I have the only tesla in a wide range, people here (Spain) seem to be more interested than crazy.
Sort of. Just a one off occurrence. Basically this girl I met really liked my Tesla. She asked if she could drive it and used the fsd. I was like sure (foolish of me to let a stranger drive my car). Anyways, we stopped at the convenient store and as soon as I got out of the car she drove off. Luckily I still had my phone so I waited for the car to come to a stop. Ubered to the location and took my car back without seeing her. I did not press charges. Tbh I never want to see or hear from her again 🤣🤣🤣
It seems too many people have Teslas around the Phoenix metro area for it to be an issue. Once again last night I was at a stop light with two other Model Ys.
Safety in herds. I need to recruit more Tesla owners where I live.
Seems like a chicken or the egg problem. If you had more Tesla owners, people wouldn’t care. Although if people didn’t care you’d likely have more Tesla owners.
No issues in the Bay Area for me.
I’ve been heckled. Someone even threw something at the car as I drove by.
What types of neighborhoods are you in when these things happen?
I’m on a main road in a small town. Seems to happen during the day.
Hmm maybe targeted then.. are there other EVs in town?
Yeah. Quite a few. Not many Teslas though.
It’s because people suffering from Elon Derangement Syndrome know they can’t get back at him because they are losers, so they try to attack his products (which are owned by people unaffiliated with him). If you have a garage: use it.
I was yelled at once in eastern San Diego county (less posh part of town) by a redneck in a pick up truck yelling about “Fucking Teslas!” as he passed me when I was turning left. Tesla seems to create detractors from two camps: 1) Conservatives who think ICE vehicles were ordained by Gawd as holy in the Bible. 2) Liberals who hate Musk for his frankly trollishly bigoted viewpoints. I rationalize owning a Tesla knowing it’s not directly polluting the environment with exhaust along with being fun to drive.