Tesla Owner Calls Police on Rivian Driver Using Supercharger

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• mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s no question that Tesla’s signage and policies should have been made more clear, but the main problem I see here is neither of those things.

  The problem here is the aggressive and hostile Tesla owner, who chose to pick a fight and call the cops rather than communicating, or even just minding his own business.

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  • mibo80@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is really just stereotypical Tesla driver behavior. They are far and above the most entitled drivers in the SF Bay Area.

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    • unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is really just stereotypical Tesla driver behavior. They are far and above the most entitled drivers.

      FTFY

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• spujb@lemmy.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  genuine question: why call the police anyway? say the tesla driver was right and there was no compatibility. what were they thinking the rivian driver is gonna do? worst case scenario is they are gonna realize their mistake and… leave?

  like how is this different from me seeing someone accidentally filling a minivan with diesel and calling the fucken cops about it? i feel there is something more malicious going on here than “a need for education” unless i am missing something.

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just a Tesla bro being territorial.

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    • spujb@lemmy.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      reading these comments i didn’t realize there was a whole subculture around teslas and how pervasive and trending toward toxic it was. wild.

      thank ya!

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  • warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe he thought he would fuck up the charger.

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  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think they were just angry because the Rivian isn’t designed for Supercharging and so was parked sideways across two parking spots.

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• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tesla should have changed their signs when they opened up their charging network to other brands.

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  • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tesla not properly planning the rollout of a new feature? Well I never!

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    • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It was actually quite well planned out, opening up the network in stages to see that everything worked as intended before a wide rollout. You can even see in the app which chargers are open to other car brands. This mistake is 100% on the driver, the info is easily available to that person.

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  • bilb@lem.monster ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think the sign in the photo still makes sense if you interpret it as “Don’t park here unless you’re using the Tesla charging station.”

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• elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ‘a need for better education and communication within the EV community’

  That Rivian driver is being way too nice about the situation.

  Imagine someone calling the police on you because you bought pepsi instead of coke. It’s not about education and communication. It’s about a fucking asshole doing asshole shit. You can’t reason with people like that. You tell them to fuck off.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Tesla owner was complaining that he (incorrectly) thought Rivian wasn’t allowed to charge there, not because he was upset someone bought a Rivian at all.

    Also, from the article - am I reading this right? The guy just assumed that the other dude actually called the cops? After he left? There’s no evidence he did?

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    • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I know that. But why get mad at that, though? Like, if I am in a restaurant that said “For Android users only” and I see an iPhone user being served, why the fuck would I care? I’d be puzzled and intrigued. Not enraged.

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He played it cool cause why not? That’s winning

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No surprise that the Tesla driver is an asshole. They drive like assholes, so this was known.

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• someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ultimately, the Rivian owner’s adapter didn’t work, so he decided to leave and head to a nearby EVGo charger. That’s when the Tesla driver confronted him. Trying to “steer the conversation towards a constructive dialogue only seemed to aggravate him further,” so the Rivian driver got in his car and left. “As I drove away, I saw him angrily talking on the phone, presumably to an unfortunate 9-1-1 operator.”

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• Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They had signage saying tesla only, and the car was parked across two spots, so I can believe the owner looked like a massive dick without additional context.

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  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The charge ports on non-Teslas, meanwhile, are also in a different spot on the vehicle, meaning they may have to park parallel to a Supercharger, taking up two spots. That’s what happened here; “I had no choice but to park in a way that blocks two stalls,” according to the Rivian driver.

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    • Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep. Tesla charging cords are stupidly short, and are designed to force tesla drivers to back into the space for charging, so when you have several tesla charging, the esthetics is better and looks like you’re in a dealership with all the cars uniformly facing out.

      I get that there are probably better power delivery perks to a short cord. But this is classic “form over function” design that reeks of Musk.

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    • Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well yeah, that’s the additional context.

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    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Specifically, they have to park on the next spot to the right of the charger they are using, as the port on a Rivian is on the left front corner and the Tesla cables are really short.

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  • hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Calling the police becase somones a dick ? If he double parked at CostCo woukd he have called the cops, or taken a pic and posted in /c/assholedrivers ?

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    • Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you’re reading this as me defending the tesla owner calling cops, I’d just like to point out that I’m not.

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• MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You insulted his pride. 🤣

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• dsemy@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is an article about a dumb argument between two random people, not to mention the title is misleading anyway (the Rivian driver only assumes cops were called). Why post it here?

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  • mPony@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why post it here

    “Everybody’s got to have somebody to look down on Who they can feel better than at any time they please”

    Kris Kristofferson

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• istanbullu@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are all Tesla users so pathetic?

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  • neumast@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Statistically speaking: no.

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  • sandman@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s always okay to key a tesla.

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wow, what a wack job. I wish I had that much free time to worry about petty bullshit.

  Like how could he come to the conclusion that it’s illegal for anything other than a Tesla to charge there? Tesla equipment is private property, owned by a private business. State law doesn’t give a fuck about that.

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  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You just answered your own question lol

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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought of this and was confused.

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  Then I remembered a Rivian is electric too.

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• Intrepidtron@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tesla owners: known to always be super chill people.

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• Fixbeat@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Rivian driver is very diplomatic. I would have said tesla drivers are ignorant assholes.

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• sandman@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bro, I was so confused because a supercharger is an alternative to turbo for forced induction.

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This Telsa owner sounds like the BBQ Becky of EVs.

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• carl_dungeon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What a fucking idiot, makes sense he drives a tesla

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• 0x0@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tesla Karen strikes again.

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• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Holy shit, that site is AIDS. I got multiple popup/redirects to fake malware scans even though I’m running a PiHole and Firefox Focus.

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