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[MNLightning]

I don’t buy into the “R1 community”. Me buying this truck doesn’t confer commonality with anyone else here outside of sharing a love for this vehicle. I do like/respect many of you here but I just don’t care for the idea of community for simply buying a vehicle.

I don’t know this guy from Adam, I’m not responsible for him getting loaded and driving around and his behavior isn’t reflective of me or anyone else here.

lol, if you are here you already bought into the R1 community. I can't speak for SASS but I think your comments go well beyond what most would construe from his comments

 

[Donald Stanfield]

lol, if you are here you already bought into the R1 community. I can't speak for SASS but I think your comments go well beyond what most would construe from his comments

This is a special interest group, not really a community.Words mean things and saying this is a “bad look for the Rivian community” means that it somehow makes Rivian or Rivian owners look bad. It doesn’t and my post is saying that I don’t agree with that assertion.

It’s fine if you don’t agree, but my comments are not at all a reach.

 

[madgrey]

There are cars I would think twice about owning due to perceptions about their owners. That being said, it would take more than one man in Florida to sway things for the rest of us Rivian folk.

 

[SASSquatch]

I don’t buy into the “R1 community”. Me buying this truck doesn’t confer commonality with anyone else here outside of sharing a love for this vehicle. I do like/respect many of you here but I just don’t care for the idea of community for simply buying a vehicle.

I don’t know this guy from Adam, I’m not responsible for him getting loaded and driving around and his behavior isn’t reflective of me or anyone else here.

We are all entitled to our opinions but I think the kind of buyer that Rivian is attracting isn't a DUI douchebag.

Maybe I'm wrong...

 

[MNLightning]

This is a special interest group, not really a community.Words mean things and saying this is a “bad look for the Rivian community” means that it somehow makes Rivian or Rivian owners look bad. It doesn’t and my post is saying that I don’t agree with that assertion.

It’s fine if you don’t agree, but my comments are not at all a reach.

Whatever... I do agree that you are "special" though ?

 

[WSea]

Bad look for the "special interest group". ?
He has the right to call the group on here whatever he wants but...a special interest group is a community of shared interests. IMO it is a community. Especially if you have joined any of the local club events, drives and community services.

 

[Donald Stanfield]

We are all entitled to our opinions but I think the kind of buyer that Rivian is attracting isn't a DUI douchebag.

Maybe I'm wrong...

Clearly there are douche bags of all sorts.

 

[Donald Stanfield]

Whatever... I do agree that you are "special" though ?

No where near as special as you sweet pea.

 

[Acoustic71]

We are all entitled to our opinions but I think the kind of buyer that Rivian is attracting isn't a DUI douchebag.

Maybe I'm wrong...

Some appear more "entitled" than others, but I digress. Cheers to all of us in the Rivian community who aren't a DUI Douchebag. And I say this as someone who barely survived a head-on collision with a DUI Douchebag, just 3 days prior to my 18th birthday. I was lucky - I ate the steering wheel instead of the windshield, and in spite of being skewered by the steering column, I went home to recover in just a few weeks. My girlfriend at the time wasn't so lucky. She hit the windshield multiple times, and the engine block pierced the front cabin, shattering her ankle and breaking her left leg in 5 places. She was in and out of various hospitals for 2 1/2 years.

They never let me know the name of the DUI driver. That was probably a wise decision at the time.

 

[kizamybute']

Drunk drivers really, really piss me off. No regard for human life. Glad he got nailed. Just disappointed that must DUI cases get through with just a slap on the wrist. He'll be back driving again tomorrow with nothing to stop him from doing it again.

DUI should be an automatic 1 year DL suspension and 30 days in jail. Maybe if there were actual consequences for doing it, people would stop doing it. Instead, they give them a fine and send them on their way to do it again, which most of them do. In this case, putting a 7,000 lb weapon in the hands of an impaired person. Can only pray for those on road in his vicinity that they don't become victims.

With Uber, phones, etc, there's no excuse for not calling to get a ride home if you've been drinking.

 

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Why are you driving on the grass?

I'm sorry officer, this was advertised as an off-road adventure vehicle, I thought that was where I was supposed to drive it.

 

[Tango45]

Why are you driving on the grass?

I'm sorry officer, this was advertised as an off-road adventure vehicle, I thought that was where I was supposed to drive it.

Should have just blamed Driver+

 

[R1TruKaLa]

Well, you knew it had to happen sooner or later. Might as well be Floriduh.

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[Donald Stanfield]

Drunk drivers really, really piss me off. No regard for human life. Glad he got nailed. Just disappointed that must DUI cases get through with just a slap on the wrist. He'll be back driving again tomorrow with nothing to stop him from doing it again.

DUI should be an automatic 1 year DL suspension and 30 days in jail. Maybe if there were actual consequences for doing it, people would stop doing it. Instead, they give them a fine and send them on their way to do it again, which most of them do. In this case, putting a 7,000 lb weapon in the hands of an impaired person. Can only pray for those on road in his vicinity that they don't become victims.

With Uber, phones, etc, there's no excuse for not calling to get a ride home if you've been drinking.

Sadly most of the repeat DUI offenders are alcoholics and punishment has little to no effect on drug addicts. You’re assuming it’s someone like yourself or the typical polite society member who thinks about other people when they do things.

People who are habitual offenders of deadly things like DUI have some pretty messed up lives so much so that putting them in prison wouldn’t even do much to them. I don’t know what the answer is but punishing someone who hates themselves or their lives so much that they are willing to drink themselves to death doesn’t seem that effective.

Most alcoholics or drug addicts are punishing themselves already with their drug use. Some societies have had luck with things like social housing and rehabilitation, maybe that would work here. In the places where the government provides social housing for these people it proves to be cheaper than throwing them in prison or allowing them to just exist in society committing crimes.

I do agree that things like DUI are not tolerable in society though. I just don’t know how to actually fix it. It’s easy mentally to just say up the punishment but there are people with 3+ DUIs that get mandatory prison sentences of years for each conviction still driving drunk. When prison isn’t any worse than their lives are now I think trying something new might be the answer.

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