You’ve likely seen a video or two of a street takeover by now. Big, illegal, smoky get-togethers of cars sliding around intersections while masked and hooded show-goers take videos. This one, however, might be one of the oddest interpretations of the practice so far: a solitary Tesla Model 3 doing donuts at a busy Atlanta, Georgia, intersection, holding up traffic in the process. 

This Tesla Model 3 chose to drain the battery by doing smoky donuts and blocking traffic at an Atlanta intersection

A social media video with nearly 30,000 likes opens on an Atlanta, Georgia, intersection with traffic backed up in every direction. The reason? A white Tesla Model 3 was in the middle of the box, performing wild and smoky donuts.

If the choice of vehicle wasn’t interesting enough, the Model 3 was alone in the intersection, save for a few hooded pedestrians taking videos. A GMC SUV and an INFINITI in the left-turn lane reversed to give the errant EV plenty of room.

After several wild, wayward donuts, the Model 3 driver decided they had made their point. The white EV sedan zoomed past the camera and disappeared from view. 

Unfortunately, this sort of thing isn’t isolated. Many cities are in the midst of street takeover crackdowns in an attempt to prevent injury and property destruction.

The internet was less than kind to the Model 3’s street takeover

Understandably, the internet commentary wasn’t exactly, well, complimentary to the Tesla driver. “And in a Tesla, one viewer responded. “Surprised it didn’t start buffering. Gotta hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE to drift?”

Another cheeky user commented, “Drifting in a USB is crazy.” Other viewers were more sympathetic to the stationary traffic. One such commenter responded, “Holding up traffic to do donuts in a Laptop smh.”

In addition to the less-than-flattering commentary, a handful of social media-goers were convinced that the Tesla must have been modified. “They done put a switch on a Tesla cuz that ain’t even possible,” one viewer said.

That assertion, frankly, isn’t true. Tesla itself says that Track Mode V2 can shift EV motor bias to the rear wheels. Not just a little, either. Tesla says it will “Shift motor bias from 100 percent front to 100 percent rear.” Pair that with the ability to turn off stability assistance, and the baby Tesla will get sideways.