What's rustling my jimmies: Was parked and getting out of my Tesla on the side of a residential street (25 MPH speed limit). As I was walking around to the back of the car (to get out of the street) someone in a particularly filthy Subaru hybrid coming from the opposite direction (so in the other lane) sped up and veered over towards me (from behind), missing me by inches while going approximately 60 MPH if I had to guess. They also honked just as they did it, so it was basically ambush from behind. I don't think they were trying to hit or clip me, it was more like a Renee Good style "I'm gonna intimidate this guy by veering towards him sharply lol". If I had stuck my right elbow out to the side even six inches I would have had it get whacked by their driver's side mirror.
I nearly jumped in the car and chased after them to get their plate, and I wish I had, but my mom was in the car and I didn't want to spook her. Instead I pulled up the Tesla cameras and saved a recording of the whole thing. Later I brought it over to the police station and a guy I know there reviewed the videos with me.
He said there was very little they could do since this piece of shit didn't actually strike me. At best he could call them and give them a verbal warning that they were on camera driving recklessly and nearly hitting someone. If they'd even lightly bumped me, their shitty Subaru hybrid could have been my shitty Subaru hybrid. So that's rustle number one.
At the very least I could probably sue them in small claims court for "causing PTSD" or something. I'm not litigious but this person needed to have some sort of ramification for acting like that. I called my doctor up after it happened and he immediately drafted a "this caused mental distress" letter and sent it over, just in case it would help me stick it to this prick.
Rustle number two is that with them going so fast, their plate was heavily blurred in all of the Tesla external camera footage. My cop friend worked on it for a little while, but he called me later and said he wasn't able to get anything usable out of any of the frames.
What is the point of having external cameras if they can't reliably catch license plates if the target is going fast? Instead of constantly back-recording 90 minutes of low-res, low-FPS footage, it should be constantly back-recording 15 minutes of high-res, high-FPS footage. Or at least that should be an option. If something happens you don't generally need the past 90 minutes of footage, but you DO need something that is freaking readable.
So in any case we couldn't even get the plate down for him to track the person. I'm over here with a doctor's letter ready to take a swing at fucking this person up in court, and can't. The footage shows them dead to rights moving over and speeding (way) up.
Just rustles the fuck out of me that this hybrid-driving piece of shit can act like that, nearly kill me, and get away with it.
