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Fun · Easter Eggs

The hidden Easter eggs.

The jokes engineers hid in the products.

Tesla

Tesla
Emissions Testing Mode (fart sounds)
The Toybox on the touchscreen; assign a fart sound to a seat or the turn.
Tesla cars can play a menu of fart sounds through the speakers, routed to a chosen seat or even the turn signals.
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Tesla
Tesla's hidden "box of Easter eggs"
On the center touchscreen of Tesla vehicles; tap and hold the Tesla logo to.
Every Tesla ships with a hidden Toybox of Easter eggs that you reach by tapping the logo on the center screen and waiting.
Elon Musk on X (@elonmusk), x.com/elonmusk/status/981581215344939008
Tesla
Classic Atari arcade games
Tesla Arcade on the in-car touchscreen, introduced with the V9.0 software.
Tesla baked playable classic Atari titles into its cars as Easter eggs, letting owners game on the dashboard screen while parked.
Elon Musk on X (@elonmusk), x.com/elonmusk/status/1024726529304027137
Tesla
Boombox and coconut sounds
The Boombox feature, played through the car's external pedestrian-warning.
Tesla added customizable horn and movement sounds that the car can broadcast to the outside world, with coconut clip-clops among the options as a.
Elon Musk on X (@elonmusk), x.com/elonmusk/status/1180877114226008064
Tesla
Moth Mode
A low-glare night setting for the instrument and center displays in Tesla.
Moth Mode is a tongue-in-cheek dim-display setting that dramatically lowers screen brightness for dark drives, framed as a friendly nod to nocturnal.
Elon Musk on X (@elonmusk), x.com/elonmusk/status/1207572562466738177
Tesla
Synchronized light show
Triggered from the Toybox on the touchscreen; the car's lights, doors, and.
Teslas can run a choreographed show in which headlights, taillights, windows, charge port, and falcon-wing doors dance in time to music.
Elon Musk on X (@elonmusk), x.com/elonmusk/status/1817129942439641211
Tesla
"Open butthole" charge-port voice command
A voice command spoken inside Tesla vehicles to open the charge-port door.
Among Tesla's hidden voice commands, saying "open butthole" pops open the rear charge-port flap, a deadpan joke baked into the software.
Elon Musk on X (@elonmusk), x.com/elonmusk/status/1553195274264354816

SpaceX

SpaceX
Starman in the Roadster
Driver's seat of the cherry-red Tesla Roadster launched on the first Falcon.
For the debut Falcon Heavy, Elon Musk flew his own midnight-cherry Tesla Roadster as the test payload, with a mannequin in a real SpaceX spacesuit.
Grokipedia, "Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster" (grokipedia.com/page/Elon_Musk's_Tesla_Roadster)
SpaceX
"Don't Panic!" on the dashboard
The dashboard display of the Starman Roadster on Falcon Heavy's 2018.
The Roadster's dashboard screen was programmed to show the phrase "Don't Panic!", a nod to Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Grokipedia, "Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster" (grokipedia.com/page/Elon_Musk's_Tesla_Roadster)
SpaceX
"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 outward into the solar.
Grokipedia, "Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster" (grokipedia.com/page/Elon_Musk's_Tesla_Roadster)
SpaceX
David Bowie's "Space Oddity" on loop
The Roadster's audio system during the Falcon Heavy launch broadcast.
As Starman cruised away from Earth, the Roadster's sound system was set to play David Bowie's "Space Oddity" on a loop.
Grokipedia, "Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster" (grokipedia.com/page/Elon_Musk's_Tesla_Roadster)
SpaceX
Hot Wheels Roadster with a mini Starman
Tucked inside the Starman Roadster, with a tiny Roadster model on the dashboard.
A miniature die-cast Roadster carrying a tiny Starman figure rode along inside the full-size car, a toy-within-the-payload flourish.
Grokipedia, "Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster" (grokipedia.com/page/Elon_Musk's_Tesla_Roadster)
SpaceX
The Arch: Asimov's Foundation on a quartz disc
A storage device stowed in the Starman Roadster, intended as an interplanetary.
The Roadster carries an "Arch," a durable quartz data disc etched with digital copies of Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy, designed to survive in.
Grokipedia, "Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster" (grokipedia.com/page/Elon_Musk's_Tesla_Roadster)
SpaceX
Plaque honoring the SpaceX team
On the payload adapter that connected the Roadster to the Falcon Heavy second.
A small plaque on the payload adapter was engraved to honor the roughly 6,000 SpaceX employees who worked on the project at the time of the flight.
Grokipedia, "Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster" (grokipedia.com/page/Elon_Musk's_Tesla_Roadster)
SpaceX
A wheel of cheese on the first Dragon
Inside the very first SpaceX Dragon capsule on its 2010 orbital test flight.
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 a Monty Python sketch.
Elon Musk on X (@elonmusk), x.com/elonmusk/status/1377596011774808069