Put 8,418 miles on the Beast over the holidays. 

Left the SF Bay Area around noon on December 17th. Arrived in the Florida Keys early in the morning of December 21st. We spent Christmas and NYE in the Keys and I left on the evening of Jan 1st. Rolled into Ann Arbor Michigan area Saturday afternoon (Jan 3rd). Visited family and left around 4am Thursday, Jan 8th and arrived back home Sunday the 11th at 4:18an. 

Efficiency was terrible. Full vault, no wheel covers, and no wheel fairings really killed it. Lots of hills and mountains after Florida and just cruising highway speeds didn't help any. 

Under 100 miles were manually driven. Most of the those were letting other people drive the truck, very short drives of a block or so, and driving through the resort in Florida to get from the gate to our cottage. I want trying particularly hard to avoid manual driving until I was in the way home from Michigan. 

The biggest problem with FSD was speed control either from bad speed limit mapping or poor sign reading. Through Utah and Nevada it kept mis-reading 80 mph signs as 60 mph.  On I-94 it kept getting really bad speed limit data. It was either poor gps accuracy putting me on the surface street or oyr of date road construction speeds as there was a bit of construction and the speeds it windshield went were 25-45mph which matched the speeds they used in construction zones. 

I'm heavy rains outside Des Moines FSD limited maximum speed due to "inclement weather" which was very good. 

There were a couple times, in the mountains, where I turned off FSD simply because I wasn't comfortable going the speed limit. In Wyoming near the Continental divide there were 40+ mph cross winds and while it wasn't snowing the wind blew a lot of snow across the road so I couldn't see the lines it the actual road conditions so I disabled FSD and drove manually. In the Sierras heading down from Truckee/Donner I was simply not comfortable at the speed limit. It was very late and supervising was a bit more of a challenge than normal. There were plenty of cars going by at the speed limit so this i chalk up to me and my personal comfort lever, unlike the other stretch where everyone was showing down. I really miss speed control. 


Holiday Road Trip