The head unit in Ruby/my car is still down. I didn’t drive for Uber again today. I was thinking this is the longest forced vacation
I have had since I started driving for Uber. Today I took some drone footage of a chipotle near where I live, the bank next door and
Lewis tree trux that are parked nearby. All three places were so close together, I was able to film them all with a single battery.
When the battery gets down to 5 minutes, the remote starts making this loud audible noise and then like 30 seconds later, it starts
returning to home (which I always cancel). That feature is kind of cool when you first start flying drones, but it gets annoying real quick.
So I always try to land or start heading back to land when there is 6 or more minutes left on the battery to avoid that alarm.
There are a lot of other things to pay attention to while flying, so I wasn’t paying attention to the battery time. I was filming the Lewis
tree trux and that alarm started going off. I was able to land it, without the return to home feature starting.
Today, I was headed to Pinellas County to drive for the day, and I noticed this on the dashboard. I am just glad it didn’t happen with a passenger in the car, that has happened to me before, and it sux. I have already replaced this with a brand new part (on Page 2 of the maintenance log) These codes mean the ABS system is not functioning which makes the brakes really hard to press and not as effective at stopping the vehicle. I can still drive the vehicle, for example, there is now a Chipotle in Ellenton which I love, and I drove Ruby there with no problem, Monday when I need to go grocery shopping at Walmart I will drive there also. I just can’t put the usual 200 miles I put on Ruby each day. I gotta say, almost 500,000 miles anything that goes wrong with Ruby now, isn’t okay yet, but I understand why things fail. I have already ordered the part (using my mother’s CC of course lol) and contacted my mechanic. eBay (Amazon didn’t have the part this time) says the part won’t be here until 02-23-2023 – 02-25-2023 which is 1 week from today and then my mechanic doesn’t work on the weekends so I am looking at Monday 02/27/2023 for a repair date. So until then, I will be at this computer trying to earn money in a different way nothing new, I have needed to actually do that all along, and now, I have time to do it.
I just got home from my auto mechanics shop and that part completely resolved the issue. I was thinking that because
Ruby has so many miles on her, perhaps it’s something else. The diagnostic skills they have which I have never had to use with this car
are really good. The uber I took to pick up Ruby was a woman. She had a 5.0 rating and like 1660 trips. Her name was Shannon.
I told her where to go to make it easier to drop me off so instead of turning into the spot next door, she instead elected to go
the light a block ahead and turn there? Not a u-turn like I would have done, she turned and then she turned into some parking lot and
fished around to where I needed to be dropped off. I have dont that before, but I am usually not as lucky as she was. Anyway, I am excited
that I can go driving tomorrow. Isn’t that crazy? I am excited to go deal with passengers. I suppose I am just excited that the problem Ruby
had was resolved by changing a part. I forgot to blog Sunday night so I am blogging right now to make up for that lol.