Like the rest of the United States, other than Arizona, my Tesla Model S sprung forward for daylight savings time. My clock is now one hour ahead of what it should be. After a cursory look, I can't figure out how to get the clock to change. Anybody else have an idea how to fix this?
the car actually thinks it is on Pacific time. when you check your phone logs they are all a few hours off also. this is a known issue that I have read about in other threads.
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I woke up early, really early. It was 6AM. Too soon to wake up so I hit the sleep button. In my dreams I was already driving. Unfortunately I awoke from my dream about 9:55 AM and I am suddenly aware that I have overslept.:cursing: I would have to rush to make the 10Am meeting, if anyone else decided to make the trip. While driving to the Blasdell, I had images of dozens of people pissed off that I had arranged the drive and not shown up on time.:redface: At 10:10 AM, all I saw were two identical black leafs occupying the charging spots.:crying: After range charging the night before I had 256 rated miles to use up.
The rainclouds are circling and I can see some drops on my windshield. Can I outrun the rain? Suddenly the clouds part and the warm tropical sunshine dries the wet roads.
I hit H1 heading toward Kahala where I noticed a new digit on my dash screen. My odometer read 1K. $300 fuel cost savings since I said goodbye to my old car. :biggrin:
Passing Sandy Beach I lost radio station. I did a radio station search which cycled twice before finding a station. It was an interview with a new, hip and young string quartet. When I lost that I wished that they had satellite radio in Hawaii. Sirius Radio won the lawsuit against them from Hawaii Broadcasters two years ago. Why haven’t they set up the repeating tower they promised?
The rain was threatening again, as I made a pass by the Kailua whole foods. There was no need to stop and regroup with others, so I kept driving. I stopped at traffic light and then it happened, or did it? No, is it? Can it be? A grey MS. Should I wave? Yes, the thing to do is wave.:love: The bearded driver didn’t even see me. My first time seeing another random MS on the road and the other driver doesn’t even see me.
It figures that a granola eating, tree hugging type that hangs out at Whole Foods would buy a MS and not wave to me.:tongue:
Between the MS sighting and the heavy traffic in Kailua, I got a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach. Did I do the right thing with this around the island trip? The more I drive the more it nags at me. I decide to stop at He’eia Kea Pier. With Guy Fieri’s recommendation I pick something up at the general store. I wish that I had come an hour earlier to get some of the delicious breakfast menu items. After my meal everything was calm with no more nagging feeling in the pit of my stomach and the drive seemed destined to be completed.:wink:
As I got back on the road the only vehicle in front of me was a box delivery truck. At least he wouldn’t be trying to look at the waves driving 25 MPH
. it was easy driving until after the Polynesian CC and Kahuku shrimp trucks. For some unknown reason the road was limited to a single lane while a team of leaf blowers blew leaves off the road. I was really moving after that and got to Turtle Bay resort with no more traffic problems.
As I continued past Turtle Bay I was surprised by the lack of traffic on the North Shore. With the occasional car waiting to pull to the opposite side of the road to find parking. There were no other slowdowns.
I did make the mistake of going through Halewea instead of staying on Kamehameha highway. I got stuck behind the Wahiawa 52 bus. I was finally able to pass the bus at weed circle on the road to Wahiawa. Of course I was immediately stuck in a string of 10 cars in a no passing zone. Every time a passing zone appeared it was immediately clogged with oncoming traffic. As soon as an open passing zone appeared there was a car three cars ahead of me that pulled out to pass. I take that as a queue and start my pass. The OP (original passer) pulls back at the head of the line about four car lengths ahead of the previous first car in the line. Craaaap, I’m in the passing line with cars approaching from the opposite direction, :scared: not really a problem but my momentum has me almost ahead of the OP. Let’s do the math… 10 cars in the line of traffic ahead of me, the third in front of me moves to the front and I blow past 9.5 cars. I was going way too fast. If the OP had not waited four car lengths to pull back into the right lane I would have had plenty of room to get in front of him. I erred on the side of caution and applied my brakes heavily to pull in behind him. That’s what I call passing power.
I eventually came to the end of my trip. All I had to do was coast down the Kinau off ramp and to the Blasdell to recharge. Suddenly at the bottom of the ramp was a shiny car with a decorative blue lite atop his car. He was looking at me. :scared::crying: Was I taking the off ramp too fast? Did I make an illegal lane change? I pass him and look straight ahead. A glance in my rear view mirror and I could see him pulling out behind me. The light turned red and he pulled to the left lane beside me and stopped leaving a huge gap between his car and the stop line. Craaaap. I lowered my window and muted my radio. “Nice day officer what can I do for you?” then it happened. “Is that a Model S? Are you the first on the island, I haven’t seen any others yet. You are the first. Nice car.” “Thank you officer, plenty of other MS out there. Have a nice day…”:biggrin:
I pulled in to the Blasdell with 130 rated miles remaining/~100 miles driven. When I plugged in, my car told me that it would take about 6 hours for a standard charge (which turned out to be 5:40 hours actual charging time.):love:
This tale is 100% true and not fake, so I can not apply to the NYT for a job during my upcoming federal furlough.:frown:
