Website Design & Development

FSD247: A Tesla Full Self-Driving Owner's Log

A custom-coded owner's log: 28 dated notes, 50 owner FAQs, and a self-updating news feed from 20,000 miles on Tesla Full Self-Driving.

Expertise
Website Design & Development
Platforms
Custom-coded static site, Netlify hosting, serverless functions
Deliverables
Website, content build system, photography, social share cards
Client
Roger Ridpath, personal project

Project overview

FSD247 is my own Tesla Full Self-Driving log, written from the driver's seat of a Midnight Cherry Red Model Y over 20,000 miles between Kansas City, the Gulf Coast, and points in between. Every note is dated to the software build it describes, so the site reads as a record rather than a review. The bad days are in there too.

See it live at fsd247.net.

Website Design & Production

Execution

The site is custom-coded. One source file feeds a build system that generates every note page, the build-by-build hubs, the RSS feed, the sitemap, and the structured data, so a new note is one entry and one run. A scheduled serverless function keeps the FSD news section current from four sources without any hand editing. The design language comes from the car itself: the plate colors, the Midnight Cherry Red paint, and the owner's own photographs.

Results

Live at fsd247.net, with a 50-question owner FAQ marked up for search engines and answer engines, per-note social share cards, and a fully responsive mobile layout.