u/Faramir1717 — reddlx

While driving around this morning, the operating display - with the current speed, the guess-o-meter, and energy usage - went totally black. I was at 65 mph on the highway at 6:56 am. I immediately switched to the outside lane and feared the worst. But car kept driving as normal and after a few seconds the display came back on and everything seemed fine.

Anyone experience this before? Car is a 2023 EV 2LT bought new in May 2023 with just over 35k miles.

A few possibilities come to mind...

this isn't a good sign for the 12V battery and I should consider getting it replaced. I've had ICE cars that started to have electrical flake outs before the battery went dead, so maybe I should heed the warning.
my usual charging routine is to have the charge overnight stop at 7 am. Last night I set it to finish at 6 am since I had to take the kid to school early, which is why I was driving back home at 6:56 am. On the way to school (like 6:40 am) I'd gotten the usual warning saying that car might not be able to complete charge by 7 am. This has never been an issue before but who knows.
maybe something in the visual sensor about transition from night to day? Not exactly a bright morning, but sky was getting lighter certainly.

A simple ode to a simple item, the Acrobat Shoes. You can buy these for pretty cheap from Barcus, at least while he's hanging out at Last Light Inn if not elsewhere. The Acrobat Shoes give +1 to Acrobatics and advantage on DEX saving throws.

It's the latter feature that piqued my interest. If you were to say, put the Acrobat Shoes on a 12th level monk with 20 DEX, as well as the Graceful Cloth, and maybe have a bless effect on (thanks Umberlee), you'd have at least a 87.75% chance to take no damage at all from big blasts of lightning, even when intentionally triggering them. Groovy.

Of course, when you get around to actually facing the big blasts of lightning, you can still roll consecutive turns of a 2 and a 4 (even with advantage!), but that's what lightning resistance is for.