Does Anybody Else 'Wave' ?

[Vettepartz]

When I was a youngster (a loooong time ago) I had an Austin Healy. Back then, it seemed that all 'sports cars' waved as they passed each other. Then I had 5 different Corvettes over the years, Still did the wave thing for over thirty years.

Now I have a Tesla, and I find myself still doing the wave when I see another Tesla on the road. Does anyone else do this?

 

[beatle]

I have not waved at other Teslas or seen them wave at me, but I used to wave at Miatas when I first started driving them back in 2000. Those waving days mostly stopped, but will probably pick up again now that there aren't too many NA Miatas on the road. I honked and talked to an NA driver yesterday while driving my Model S.

 

[brainhouston]

Curious too...
Bikers do it all the time.

 

[JHamCell]

I wave. Most of the time other Tesla drivers wave too.
We are part of a fraternity.

 

[thesmokingman]

I never see any waves in socal, though its probably to do with the zillion Teslas here. Although my old subie still gets waves and since my teen has taken over the subie, he gets a kick out of that community. A funny thing though only wrx and sti drivers wave, the other subies are wave agnostic.

 

[DBV1]

I get a lot of waves from other Tesla owners. When I was traveling in Ontario, Canada in June it seemed like most Tesla owners waved. Was neat.

 

[zoomer0056]

Bikers always wave, Corvettes wave a lot. I was riding in my 250,000 mile Maxima and waved at another Maxima .... ha ha, got snubbed! I've never seen a Tesla wave either.

 

[mscott]

I used to regularly wave at other Model Ses back in the "old days", but now on the rare occasion I do wave I pretty much never get a wave back (until it's a pre-facelift S). The 3/Y crowd (at least around here) definitely don't wave.

 

[Aggmeister2010]

When I was a youngster (a loooong time ago) I had an Austin Healy. Back then, it seemed that all 'sports cars' waved as they passed each other. Then I had 5 different Corvettes over the years, Still did the wave thing for over thirty years.

Now I have a Tesla, and I find myself still doing the wave when I see another Tesla on the road. Does anyone else do this?

I did the wave when I had my E39 M5, because it was a relatively rare car and knew that most folks wouldn’t buy it unless they had an enthusiast mindset.

If I see a pretty heavily modified Tesla, I might wave, but I don’t bother with base model 3/Y or S. I think of it as equivalent to waving at a Camry.

 

[airborne spoon]

i wave to motorcycles when riding the Harley. But to wave to another car seem asinine, and there are so many teslas on the road now it is like waving to a honda.
3 years ago when i moved here i had the only/first tesla in the town now there are about 3 dozen of them, and my town is only like 5k people.
so no i don't think waving to a stranger in a car is something worth doing.
Also people need to stop calling tesla a sports car or a luxury car its just a car.

 

[redmunds]

What about a 2-handed wave when FSDb is active?

 

[richrootes]

Used to eight years ago - stopped around the time that the model 3 arrived, as their drivers never waved back

 

[kavyboy]

I used to wave all the time, when that meant seeing a Tesla only every month or so. Now they're everywhere, so there's not much point. I will wave if I see another nosecone S in the same color (red).

 

[GtiMart]

Got my model 3 at the end of 2019 and people still waved. It stopped somewhere in 2020 when everyone got a tesla

 

[sephiroth529]

I think in the DC metro area, you'd get the one finger salute back if you waved to random tesla drivers. Plus a good 20-30% of the cars here are Teslas, so nothing special. I have a 2014 lancer evo and would wave to other evo drivers since it's pretty rare.

 

[glovelace]

What about a 2-handed wave when FSDb is active?

Or a wave in the shape of a T!

 

[tesluv108]

I wave. Most of the time other Tesla drivers wave too.
We are part of a fraternity.

In my area 99% of Tesla drivers do not wave. I was shocked when an older gentleman waved at me from a red y. Of course I waved back. I feel like S owners are more likely to wave at me

 

[glovelace]

I wave. Most of the time other Tesla drivers wave too.
We are part of a fraternity.

Have to admit I get the urge to wave, or just nod. If only we had a secret sign, or something we could say into the voice recognition and that triggered a very brief lightshow!

 

[zoomer0056]

Have to admit I get the urge to wave, or just nod. If only we had a secret sign, or something we could say into the voice recognition and that triggered a very brief lightshow!

I ride a motorcycle. Most bikers wave to other bikers. I owned a couple of Corvettes, sometimes they wave to each other. So, one day I was driving our 1995 GLE Nissan Maxima and saw another, same color and trim! I waved. Embarrassing , got snubbed. I've never had an urge to acknowledge another Tesla, but I do look.

 

[Laddcruzer]

I ride a motorcycle. Most bikers wave to other bikers. I owned a couple of Corvettes, sometimes they wave to each other. So, one day I was driving our 1995 GLE Nissan Maxima and saw another, same color and trim! I waved. Embarrassing , got snubbed. I've never had an urge to acknowledge another Tesla, but I do look.

Well, I ride a bicycle and just pretty much nod when I pass another biker. When I pass another Plaid I want to give him a thumbs up, but it’s usually too late to respond.