Recent content by halfpress

All valid questions and you are spot on that this isn’t a leisure trip or sightseeing. Note that I won’t be alone - wife and I can share the effort during the day and autopilot helps on the highway as we all know. Handful of personal reasons I don’t want to fly this time, not the least of...

Hello! Pondering by near week’s end of embarking on an east to west coast drive (central Va to Bay Area destination). ABRP gives me two routes - one quite direct across the central US (across the TX panhandle for reference). The other arcs more to the north across lower Illinois, Nebraska and...

As others have said, FSDb is something one does when alone in the car. My wife would be positively apoplectic as a passenger. She has always refused to use even basic autopilot when she drives… so, yeah, she is NOT a fan. Heck, mild phantom braking on basic autopilot has always made her curse at...

Yeah - sorry about that. The text/links got crossed in the midst of my failed first order and change to both size and model. What I ultimately ended up on wheel-wise is the Type 73...

I've seen one car charging there on one of my drives by in recent weeks. I always glance at the count on the map when I'm in the vicinity, too. The other day it seemed there were cars (per the map), so when I was nearby, I took a glance and was totally NOT surprised to see it was devolving into...

Quick update: this site went live in the last couple of hours. I might be the first person to use it, in fact (writing this as I charge). I ran into the commissioning team today and had a fun chat with them. Now we watch to see how long it takes to hit the maps. Have at it! ;)

Been watching a new location at the Sheetz on US29 and US130 get closer to done over a few weeks. Eight stalls. I don’t see a meter base and the cabinets are still wrapped, so I’m curious to see how much longer. This puts a SC on each of the north and south sides of Lynchburg on 29 and 460 routes.

Don't mind at all. Note, I bought wheels that get the job done - not high end for style, per se. These seemed plenty agreeable. I also decided to stick with Pirelli tires. These are the Tesla-rated, noise suppression version, too. 4x 235/40R-19 PIRELLI WINTER SOTTOZERO 3 T0 TESLA, NOISE...

I appreciate all the replies! I’m a little late responding because, as I was about to arrange the tire swap, I got a note out of the blue from Tire Rack letting me know the 18” wheels/tires I bought in September (which their online configurator offered for my M3P) might have a problem with the...

That's kind of been how I'm leaning - rather be safe than overly worried about wearing out the tires prematurely. Just wasn't sure how hard and fast the 40's temperature rules were in both performance of the summer tires or premature wear of the winter ones. I'll go ahead with getting it done...

I understand the 20" Pirelli PZero's I have on my September '21 M3P aren't ideal once things are in the mid 40's and below. I bought new winter wheels/tires from Tirerack last month in anticipation of this being a seasonal swap for the coming years (18" Pirelli Sottozero tires and new...

Yep - looks like it was so quick and, with the daylight, I completely missed it. When I tested it last night there was a definite flash not unlike lightning. :) Think everything is in order! Thanks!

Yep - definitely going to do that tonight. :)

Yes, it's this flash of the lights I don't think I was seeing (just the screen coming on and saying it was recording) - but perhaps it wasn't obvious enough in daylight the way I was situated by the driver's side door. Do the turn signals or other non-headlights flash in this process, too? Thanks!

I decided to experiment with Sentry mode this morning ahead of a trip I have coming up where I might (if I get a parking spot that has power for the week) use Sentry mode. On my first try, I enabled Sentry remotely and left my phone in the house. Some of my walking around the car definitely...