Driver Walks Up and Slaps a Cybertruck Owner – The Response Is Caught on DashcamA dashcam clip making the rounds on social media captures a roadside confrontation that starts with a slap and ends with a Cybertruck driver smashing off a driver's car mirror in the middle of traffic.The footage, filmed from another vehicle stuck in slow-moving, multi-lane traffic on a sunny day, shows an older man in a pink long-sleeve shirt, shorts, and a baseball cap walking past the front of a parked Tesla Cybertruck. He slaps the driver of the EV pickup. Whatever happened between these two vehicles before the camera started rolling clearly wasn't resolved with a wave and an apology.The Cybertruck driver – a large man in a black T-shirt and cargo shorts – exits his vehicle immediately. The older man retreats toward his silver crossover and pulls the door shut, but the Cybertruck driver, after attempting to wrench it open as the argument continues, fails to do so and looks to his left instead. He slams down on the side mirror, bursting the plastic surrounding the glass.AdvertisementAdvertisementThe woman filming reacts in real time: "In the lane just like that. Are you kidding me?" A moment later, as the Cybertruck driver climbs out: "He's on camera. Oh my god."The now-damaged car accelerates closer to the back-end of the Elon Musk-built vehicle, potentially even touching the rear bumper as the driver of the truck points a warning finger. It continues, but no more damage is done at least before the video ends.Driving an ICE vehicle is enough to test anyone's patience. pic.twitter.com/NdocZhB4jX— Tesla King (@TeslaKing420) July 17, 2026Cybertrucks Have Become a Target – and Owners Know ItWhatever triggered the confrontation in this clip, the broader pattern it fits into is well-documented. Hostility toward Tesla owners has intensified considerably in the months since early 2025, with vehicles, charging stations, and dealerships nationwide becoming targets of a surge in vandalism fueled largely by public backlash against CEO Musk. In March 2025, the FBI released a public warning acknowledging a surge in such attacks, which had been reported in no fewer than nine states and included incidents involving arson, vandalism, and gunfire.According to a Guardian Service survey of 508 Tesla owners released in April 2025 and reported by CarBuzz, nearly half – 44 percent – said their vehicles had been vandalized at least once. Hostility toward Cybertruck owners has taken multiple forms, Forbes has reported, including drivers deliberately cutting them off, making obscene gestures, and blocking access to public charging stations.AdvertisementAdvertisementPickup truck drivers were initially identified as the most common source of that aggression, though growing backlash against Elon Musk has since expanded the range of people directing hostility at the vehicles. In April 2026, a Fargo, North Dakota man named Nathan Sather contacted police after footage from his Cybertruck's built-in cameras recorded an unknown individual walking up to the vehicle and spitting on it while it was parked outside a grocery store."I stopped in to get a few things for lunch, came back out, there was a giant loogie on the back of my truck," Sather told Valley News Live. "I think people just don't like the Cybertruck, I don't know what it is."A different Cybertruck owner shared on Reddit that another motorist in a blue truck had forced them toward a median and hit the brakes on them multiple times while traveling on a two-lane toll road. Their advice to fellow owners afterward: "Be safe out there folks, some people aren't too fond of the CT."Not every Cybertruck confrontation has stayed verbal. In Midtown Manhattan, a separate 2024 confrontation saw a Cybertruck driver draw a firearm on passengers inside a Lexus following a collision, according to amNewYork. A 19-year-old from Kansas City was federally charged in May 2025 with firebombing two Cybertrucks and two charging stations at a dealership using Molotov cocktails, Forbes reported.AdvertisementAdvertisementThe clip here is far less extreme. But the Cybertruck has become one of the more politically charged objects you can own right now, and some encounters aren't ending with both drivers walking away.
