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Incredibly anecdotal, but as a cyclist I’ve found Tesla drivers to be the worst. They are always speeding, always too close to me as I bike, and seem to be unaware of it all.

My first guess is that the acceleration is so fast and the car is so quiet that it’s very easy to be unaware.

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Tesla driver here. I agree. I did some pretty sketchy overtaking before and it's been sketchy because I've overestimated the torque available. Had I had better model it would've been less sketchy.

That said I notice other drivers, esp pickup truckers, fuck around with me for no reason.

I live in an area that has a lot of mews lanes (previously access lanes for, in this case, large Victorian terraced houses, now local roads for smaller houses and commercial units built in the back gardens of the terraces) - I live on such a lane. These are narrow and often have no or inadequate footpaths, and the general understanding is that pedestrians have right of way and that cars should be cautious. Virtually the only people who don’t abide by this seem to be Tesla drivers; I’m not sure how it’s happened, but they seem to have cultivated a market of stupid arseholes. It’s not even an electric car thing; the VWs and Hyundais and even BMWs (long the stereotypical arsehole car) usually behave themselves.

As much as I dislike the company, I find these sort of discussions to be sort of tired, but what the hell, I'll bite.

IME Tesla drivers are mostly average, but for the ones that aren't, let's say 90% are completely incompetent(driving erratically or well under the speed limit) and the rest are dangerously aggressive.

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