Nina's Blog - Friday 27th February 2026
Friday 27th February 2026, 10:42
Had a bad start today. I decided to visit the free library at Fornebu S as I haven't been out of the village so far this week and I haven't been there in a while.
First thing that went wrong was that when I went to check my email before leaving the network was down. Then I left the house without picking up the books to leave at the library.
But those are just minor irritations. What happened next was much more annoying. Once I got up to speed on the road to the next town I engaged autosteer as usual. No problem. But a little while later it dropped out. I didn't think anything of that, there was a bit of fog and the light wasn't good, just the conditions that my car finds a bit trying. Re-engaged it when it was ready, again nothing really out of the ordinary. But over the next 15 km it dropped out rather more often than usual, not that I have exact statistics of course but I'm so used to how it works that I feel it rather than calculate it. Then when I got on the motorway it worked briefly and then dropped out again. This time with a message in the instrument cluster that I've never seen before: Cruise control disabled.
At first I thought it was just temporary and tried re-engaging but that didn't work. So I stopped at a supercharger to charge and also to turn off the car and turn it back on. Didn't help. The message was also misleading because ordinary traffic aware cruise control is still working but autosteer isn't; every time I try to engage it I get a message saying that it is temporarily unavailable.
This is really bad because in about six weeks I intend to set start my summer holiday and that begins with 1 700 km of motorway driving. Autosteer makes that much less tiring.
So I'll give the car a chance to pull itself together today but if it doesn't come to its senses by the time I get home I'll have to book it in for repair and hope that Tesla can get it done quickly.
Had a bad start today. I decided to visit the free library at Fornebu S as I haven't been out of the village so far this week and I haven't been there in a while.
First thing that went wrong was that when I went to check my email before leaving the network was down. Then I left the house without picking up the books to leave at the library.
But those are just minor irritations. What happened next was much more annoying. Once I got up to speed on the road to the next town I engaged autosteer as usual. No problem. But a little while later it dropped out. I didn't think anything of that, there was a bit of fog and the light wasn't good, just the conditions that my car finds a bit trying. Re-engaged it when it was ready, again nothing really out of the ordinary. But over the next 15 km it dropped out rather more often than usual, not that I have exact statistics of course but I'm so used to how it works that I feel it rather than calculate it. Then when I got on the motorway it worked briefly and then dropped out again. This time with a message in the instrument cluster that I've never seen before: Cruise control disabled.
At first I thought it was just temporary and tried re-engaging but that didn't work. So I stopped at a supercharger to charge and also to turn off the car and turn it back on. Didn't help. The message was also misleading because ordinary traffic aware cruise control is still working but autosteer isn't; every time I try to engage it I get a message saying that it is temporarily unavailable.
This is really bad because in about six weeks I intend to set start my summer holiday and that begins with 1 700 km of motorway driving. Autosteer makes that much less tiring.
So I'll give the car a chance to pull itself together today but if it doesn't come to its senses by the time I get home I'll have to book it in for repair and hope that Tesla can get it done quickly.
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