The hidden Easter eggs.
The jokes engineers hid in the products.
Tesla
Emissions Testing Mode (fart sounds)
The Toybox on the touchscreen; assign a fart sound to a seat or. Tesla cars can play a menu of fart sounds through the speakers, routed to a chosen seat or even the turn signals.
Source →Tesla's hidden "box of Easter eggs"
On the center touchscreen of Tesla vehicles; tap and hold the. Every Tesla ships with a hidden Toybox of Easter eggs that you reach by tapping the logo on the center screen and waiting.
Source →Classic Atari arcade games
Tesla Arcade on the in-car touchscreen, introduced with the. Tesla baked playable classic Atari titles into its cars as Easter eggs, letting owners game on the dashboard screen while.
Source →Boombox and coconut sounds
The Boombox feature, played through the car's external. Tesla added customizable horn and movement sounds that the car can broadcast to the outside world, with coconut clip-clops.
Source →Moth Mode
A low-glare night setting for the instrument and center. Moth Mode is a tongue-in-cheek dim-display setting that dramatically lowers screen brightness for dark drives, framed as a.
Source →Synchronized light show
Triggered from the Toybox on the touchscreen; the car's lights. Teslas can run a choreographed show in which headlights, taillights, windows, charge port, and falcon-wing doors dance in time.
Source →"Open butthole" charge-port voice command
A voice command spoken inside Tesla vehicles to open the. Among Tesla's hidden voice commands, saying "open butthole" pops open the rear charge-port flap, a deadpan joke baked into the.
Source →SpaceX
Starman in the Roadster
Driver's seat of the cherry-red Tesla Roadster launched on the. For the debut Falcon Heavy, Elon Musk flew his own midnight-cherry Tesla Roadster as the test payload, with a mannequin in a.
Source →"Don't Panic!" on the dashboard
The dashboard display of the Starman Roadster on Falcon Heavy's. The Roadster's dashboard screen was programmed to show the phrase "Don't Panic!", a nod to Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's.
Source →"Made on Earth by Humans" plate
A small plate fitted to the Starman Roadster orbiting the Sun. The Roadster carried a plate reading "Made on Earth by Humans," a quiet reminder of the car's terrestrial origins as it heads.
Source →David Bowie's "Space Oddity" on loop
The Roadster's audio system during the Falcon Heavy launch. As Starman cruised away from Earth, the Roadster's sound system was set to play David Bowie's "Space Oddity" on a loop.
Source →Hot Wheels Roadster with a mini Starman
Tucked inside the Starman Roadster, with a tiny Roadster model. A miniature die-cast Roadster carrying a tiny Starman figure rode along inside the full-size car, a toy-within-the-payload.
Source →The Arch: Asimov's Foundation on a quartz disc
A storage device stowed in the Starman Roadster, intended as an. The Roadster carries an "Arch," a durable quartz data disc etched with digital copies of Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy.
Source →Plaque honoring the SpaceX team
On the payload adapter that connected the Roadster to the. A small plaque on the payload adapter was engraved to honor the roughly 6,000 SpaceX employees who worked on the project at the.
Source →A wheel of cheese on the first Dragon
Inside the very first SpaceX Dragon capsule on its 2010 orbital. SpaceX's first capsule to reach orbit and return carried a secret payload that turned out to be a wheel of cheese, a tribute to.
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