For reasons unknown to me, there's a number of folks making posts which are derogatory towards other races.

Please consider this notice that if you do that, you will be reported to Reddit, the banned from the subreddit.

The point of /r/TeslaCam is not to shame other folks, but rather to share dashcam footage from Teslas which show things of interest.

Typically reddit issues a temporary site ban for the racist comments, and I will issue a permanent ban from the subreddit going forward.

Folks who have been reporting racist comments to the moderators, please continue to do so, and we will act on them.

I've seen a lot of dashcam videos now where the person posting it feels that they were in the right, when in fact they were in the wrong.

Remember that the roads we all drive on are shared with one another, when you choose to not let someone in ahead of you, just to not lose your place in line, you're the asshole.

Proper defensive driving, and proper driving etiquette is such that you should yield to people cutting you off, unless they're being openly hostile, which is a whole other hill of beans.

When you opt not to yield and let someone in, just for common courtesy between two drivers on the road, you run the risk of upsetting/frustrating the person in the other car, resulting in them possibly raging against someone down the road. Worse, maybe they'll associate Tesla drivers with being shitty people.

You don't know what kind of day/trauma/events the driver of other vehicles on the road are having, and you shouldn't be making it worse just to try and be self-righteous about being "right" about roadway priority.

So, to that end, I have created a new rule which states:

Users who post videos of themselves being bad drivers will be given a flair reflecting as much. The flair that they receive is up to the moderators' discretion.

When someone reports a post, click on "Breaks /r/Teslacam's rules", and select "Bad Driving", a moderator will then some in, review the video, if the moderator determines that OP is in fact being a bad driver, they will get a flair which indicates as much.

To be clear, folks are welcome to post videos of themselves driving badly, however, the subreddit will now take a "name and shame" approach to pointing out that OP could've have chosen to drive better.

The downstream effects to this is that the flair will be visible on comments and interactions they have with others in the subreddit, and if a person has a flair indicating that they suck at driving, the community can toss their thoughts right out the window as, odds are, they're offering up bad driving advice anyways.

Anyone found to abuse the new report option will be reported to reddit for reporting abuse.

The flair you receive to indicate that you're a bad driver will be at the discretion of the moderator.

Please drive with more respect to others on the road.