Curious if anyone gave their car fun names. My wife and daughters came up with Carmadillo for our grey model X.

Just went on a drive where there was an accident at an intersection on an access road/cross street intersection. Police blocked off all 3 lanes of traffic and were forcing people to turn right with a temporary stop sign set up. Car pulled to the right, left a gap with plenty of room for two cars in front of me to funnel into the turn lane, stopped for its turn and then continued right.

Didn't have to do anything the whole drive.

Vanity plate is on the way. Won't happen again.

hph6203 said:

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Vanity plate is on the way. Won't happen again.

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All the good plates are taken. Gotta think of something good.

GeorgiAg said:

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I thought I would like the Tesla. But I am starting to LOVE it.

Charging at home, FSD, getting "updates" OTA. Driving a gas car seems like a step down now.

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I'm almost embarrassed how much I love my Model 3. And I only have the single motor RWD. I have an 80 mile roundtrip commute that costs me almost nothing. It is still very quick and fun to drive.

I'm right there with you. More importantly, my kids love it. They literally scream with excitement when they see another Tesla on the road. Going places is now exciting, which really helps if you know anything about hauling three little kids around.

I will say I wish there was some better Tesla / Apple collaboration. I understand Tesla won't do full CarPlay. But something has to be better than what currently exists. Texting is very clunky. And even the apps that Tesla has - none of them (Audible, podcasts, etc) can pause during navigation?!

I will never complain after the pure he'll that was our 2021 expeditions infotainment system.

I'd be happy if they just updated the podcast app to let me browse to a podcast and play all unheard episodes back to back instead of playing most recent episodes of all subscribed podcasts or whatever the default order is.

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When you lift your foot off the gas pedal and a Tesla it is the equivalent of hitting the brakes.

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That's what my electric golf cart does. Doesn't just glide to a halt.

Buck Turgidson said:

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FIDO*98* said:

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When you lift your foot off the gas pedal and a Tesla it is the equivalent of hitting the brakes.

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That's what my electric golf cart does. Doesn't just glide to a halt.

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I do miss this more than anything else about switching from Tesla to my current car. I used to rarely apply the brakes and now I do - it's a moderately important deal for daily driving.

Sea Speed said:

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Curious if anyone gave their car fun names. My wife and daughters came up with Carmadillo for our grey model X.

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Mine is named LOYAL AG. Even has one of the cool "Hi my name is" name tags.

For those of you with full service driving, when you're at a restaurant at night, do you find yourself having that one extra drink that you wouldn't have had otherwise?

I meant in the Tesla app/car itself. The model x plaid we rented to see if it would work for us was named Deviled Egg. Fitting, just like I think Carmadillo is fitting for a grey X.

Sea Speed said:

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I meant in the Tesla app/car itself. The model x plaid we rented to see if it would work for us was named Deviled Egg. Fitting, just like I think Carmadillo is fitting for a grey X.

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Knew what you meant.

GeorgiAg said:

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For those of you with full service driving, when you're at a restaurant at night, do you find yourself having that one extra drink that you wouldn't have had otherwise?

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No. But I have used it in Fredericksburg when I've had more than i should have. It's a better driver than I am when I'm sober. I'm a lightweight drinker anyway so two drinks is enough for me and I'll just turn it on to be safer even if I don't feel it.

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A breathalyzer isn't going to care whether you have a FSD subscription

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Not saying to drive drunk. That's a no-no.

Keep checking my phone for the FSD 14 update.

They pushed a "minor bug fixes" update and people on Twitter lost their minds.

Release FSD 14! @Tesla_AI pic.twitter.com/llTrxjpr8S

— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) September 30, 2025

I got excited because I knew I saw the download icon on my car screen. Forgot to hit it when I parked and then it disappeared.

Medaggie said:

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No car drives as well or has the tech in the 50K range than Tesla. The updated Model Y is quiet and fit/finish is quite good. IMO, range anxiety is overblown for 95% of drivers.

I drive 30K miles a year in Texas and never have range anxiety. There are superchargers everywhere now.

Drive from Austin to SA round trip costs me about $6.

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Except Fredericksburg but they're fixing that. And yeah range anxiety is there for the first few months but you quickly figure out how much it takes to go from home to work (and wherever else you go) and back then you manage charging accordingly. I charge a couple of times per week at this point and rarely use a supercharger, only when we're away from College Station. It's truly the easiest car I've ever owned.

Range anxiety is a funny thing. It's more akin to your cell phone than your gas tank. I wouldn't think twice about driving on a quarter tank of gas. Now granted, that because I knew I could fill up pretty much anywhere in under 5 minutes. However, if my cell phone battery shows 25%, it's time to panic find a charger. It took me a couple of months to be comfortable seeing "50% charge" and thinking "half a tank" compared to "OH CRAP MY PHONE IS ABOUT TO DIEEEEEEEEEEE"

We have to drive from golden triangle to San Saba this month and there isn't much out there by way of charging. The hotel we booked said they will have a charger installed by then, but I will call in advance and see if they got it installed yet. May end up taking my truck. This is mainly because we have to drive an hour from our hotel to the wedding venue, so unless we can charge at the hotel, I don't think we can make it from closest supercharger to the hotel then to the wedding, back to hotel and then back to super charger while feeling comfortable.

Sea Speed said:

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We have to drive from golden triangle to San Saba this month and there isn't much out there by way of charging. The hotel we booked said they will have a charger installed by then, but I will call in advance and see if they got it installed yet. May end up taking my truck. This is mainly because we have to drive an hour from our hotel to the wedding venue, so unless we can charge at the hotel, I don't think we can make it from closest supercharger to the hotel then to the wedding, back to hotel and then back to super charger while feeling comfortable.

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Yeah that's no man's land. Hamilton has superchargers about 60 miles away and Brownwood has CCS1 high speed a similar distance. If the venue is in the general direction of one of those that might work.

I've heard that Plugshare is solid for route planning, but i haven't personally used it.

Just saw there is one in Llano. We may be able to make that one work. When we get a couple days out I'll start looking to see if there are alternatives.

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I've heard that Plugshare is solid for route planning, but i haven't personally used it.

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Plugshare is good. All I've ever used are Superchargers, tho.

MW03 said:

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I've heard that Plugshare is solid for route planning, but i haven't personally used it.

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Ive used PlugShare to identify other brands of chargers and it's been great for it. On a recent drive from Dodge City,KS to Wichita Falls I found out there's no superchargers on the more or less straight line between those two. Tesla actually wanted me to go 10+ hours for that 5+ hour trip just to hit superchargers. I used PlugShare to find one if Woodard, OK then we put the address to that charger into the nav system so the car could drive us there. Fair warning if you are driving to a non-Tesla charger and it detects that you don't have enough charge to make it to a supercharger it will nag you several times to turn and head to the closest supercharger. That was annoying.

A great thing with that app is it shows the connector type at each charger. If you don't have a CCS1 you should probably get one. Lot of those out there.

Sea Speed said:

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Just saw there is one in Llano. We may be able to make that one work. When we get a couple days out I'll start looking to see if there are alternatives.

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Llano is 30miles away from San Saba and this should be good enough. Drive through Llano, charge to 80% and then you should have about 220 miles to San Saba. Should be plenty if you are just there locally.

The hotels should have 120V outlets you can charge overnight and get 40-50 miles.

TBH, there are still small cities that take more planning but eventually all of these small cities will have one.

Llano added one a few years ago and before that made travels to Lake LBJ/Hill country more difficult.

Possible 'cheaper/shorter range' model Y to be announced today.

@SawyerMerritt spotted an uncovered cheaper Model Y variant driving near Giga Texas pic.twitter.com/Fy6devXree

— Ryan Mable (@RyanMable) October 2, 2025

I call mine the TARDYS, she's blue and bigger on the inside.