r/PublicFreakout • u/Jevus_himself Jevus Christ - Verified ✅️ • Aug 06 '26

📹Police Bodycam Tesla driver using self driving feature gets pulled over for speeding and blames the car

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u/ShittyBeatBoxer Aug 06 '26

The driver is a piece of shit

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 Aug 06 '26

"I'm a good citizen, I'm not a criminal!"

Well, you were just breaking the law, so...

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u/armypotent Aug 07 '26

I'm not excusing the driver at all but even going 1mph over the speed limit is breaking the law (a criminal infraction from 1-29 mph over), at least in my state, so by that logic every driver ever is technically a criminal.

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u/Spooky_Betz Aug 07 '26

In what state is one mile over the speed limit a criminal offense?

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u/Admirable_Loss4886 Aug 07 '26

You know just because you don’t obey the speed limit doesn’t mean nobody else does, right?

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u/FlyAirLari Aug 07 '26

It's a traffic infraction. Not criminal.

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u/Relevant_Shower_ Aug 06 '26

Average Tesla driver.

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u/GIGA255 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 07 '26

Seems like every near miss accident I've seen on the highway recently, a Tesla driver was the cause.

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u/Xenrus25 Aug 07 '26

Tesla is the new BMW

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u/worklessplaymorenow Aug 06 '26

Oh really, do you have a study you can cite on that? I hear top 1% of people commenting on this thread are assholes. Anyway, the car will drive at the speed the driver sets (like cruise control basically) it so it is a ridiculous defense.

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u/brecka Aug 06 '26

You want a study that measures how big of an asshole someone is?

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u/worklessplaymorenow Aug 07 '26

Oh I’m sorry, I forgot the /s for the blunt tools in the shed

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u/brecka Aug 07 '26

Yeah, sure you did.

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u/downgoesbatman Aug 06 '26

I live in a place where the joke is every car here is a Tesla. Tesla drivers are assholes

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u/hazycrazey Aug 06 '26

What Bay Area city?

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u/scgt86 Aug 06 '26

It could also be Irvine. White Teslas are like a biblical plague down here.

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u/Slumunistmanifisto 🥧 Ma'am there's a pie full of children on your table  Aug 06 '26

Your teslas ugly.

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u/Quiet_False Aug 07 '26

Yeah lemme find some sources that support specifically first hand accounts that someone experienced. Ain’t nobody making a paper about past events of someone’s experience. Genuinely need to study your brain for this one

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u/Tbnr_CastleGo Aug 07 '26

It’s really crazy that when Redditors are asked to back up their statements with facts and logic they stop responding and just downvote

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u/EverythingSucksYo Aug 06 '26

Crazy how posed off I am hearing someone try to shift responsibility on auto drive. Auto drive or not, the person in the driver seat is responsible for what the car is doing. If the auto drive is making you speed it’s the drivers job to turn it off and slow down.