Man Rents Cybertruck, Counts How Many Times He Gets Flipped Off in a Single Day

What happens when you drive a Cybertruck around the nation's capital? You get yelled at, talked down to, and flipped off — a lot. That was the experience of Saahal Desai for The Atlantic, who concluded after his ordeal that the "Cybertruck is a 7,000-pound Rorschach test." Desai rented the polarizing Tesla pickup — which has come to embody everything people hate about its creator Elon Musk — in a "journalistic experiment to understand what it's like behind the wheel of America's most hated car." And not because, as Desai later admits, he thinks it's "kind of a cool" ride. (Debatable.) After just one day of tooling around Washington, DC, Desai was given the bird at least 17 times. He was called a "motherfucker," a "fucking dork," and a lot more. Seldom did he escape mockery or derision. Diners getting brunch on a sidewalk laughed and jeered as he passed. Someone audibly considered egging his vehicle. This is the Cybertruck Owner's Burden. "As I idled with the windows down on a stree ... Read full article.