Here is the long-awaited app upgrade that allows Tesla owners to change their horn-tone to whatever they want.
The sounds on offer include farts, pigs, snakes, applause, and more.
You can really record a personalized sound that can be anything you want, which is impressive and genuinely, very frightening in equal parts.
However, there’s a proviso; only Tesla cars with the optional pedestrian speaker feature can do this, as Elon Musk stated.
If you have that feature, this means that at a party, your Tesla can also be the sound source. Everywhere you go, you can even build your own band. With classics for disco. Or a set from the 1970s of obscure psychedelic rock albums. Really, the more I learn about it, the more it seems like this function should be used very, very carefully.
For other passengers, though, there is one trick Tesla has pulled to make the feature less intrusive: the car has to be parked for it to function. Otherwise, the good old traditional horn is what you have.
Finally, the latest holiday update from Tesla would allow users to use a new Boombox mode to broadcast personalized audio outside the vehicle. As is common with new Tesla highlights, Boombox blends actual utility with low-brow humor: instead of regular, dull honking sounds, owners can use fart and goat sounds that car horns typically create.
As a section of Tesla’s 2020.48.26 software upgrade, the Model was rolled out alongside a range of other changes and is something that Tesla fans have eagerly awaited.
There are many sounds available for Tesla owners in the new Model, as can be seen in the time-stamped part of the image below, from the Toybox section, which they can use instead of a typical horn: goat baaing, applause, a little “tada” clip, somebody talking posh and, of course, the fart.
Although Tesla owners have generated fart sounds inside the vehicle for some time, the Boombox mode essentially enables individuals with newer models to use the built-in speaker that blasts audio outside the car to low unsuspecting individuals. Tesla vehicles built after September 1, 2019, have the speaker built-in. The speakers were attached because, according to Teslarati, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration required electric cars that were quiet to produce any noise to signal walkers.
Transform your vehicle into a boombox and, when parked, entertain an audience with your media player. When you press the horn, move the car, or when your car is going with Summon, you can even adjust the sound your vehicle produces. From the drop-down menu, pick an alternative or insert your own USB gadget and save up to five custom sounds.
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Even if you don’t currently drive a Tesla, the new “Boombox” mode enables Tesla drivers to configure their Model S, Model X, Model 3, or Model Y’s horn. You can soon be on the receiving end of features allowed by the update. That’s right, among a host of other sound effects, you can now make your Tesla’s horn honk sound like a donkey, applause, La Cucaracha, or a fart. Using a USB key, you can also add up to five custom sounds of your own. Following the traditional horn honk, the user-selected sound plays.
Boombox also allows your Tesla to make multiple EV in-motion driving sounds in Summon mode. If you are behind the steering wheel or your car is parked or pulled around. In other words, it probably won’t be long before you walk on the street and hear a Star Wars TIE fighter or Clydesdale approaching, only to turn around and remember that in a Model Y, it’s someone rolling by. While we can see this function being briefly humorous for Tesla owners and bystanders, it’s also safe to anticipate that the Boombox will quickly become irritating or disruptive to pedestrians and cyclists.
Farting isn’t meant for honking either. A Tesla “Emissions Testing Mode” upgrade, a fart sequencing code, ensures that cars will now fart anytime they want. People outside will not be able to halt the sounds.
Apart from being able to fart, people may also use the Boombox of Tesla to irritate neighbors in other respects. For example, a Tesla will emit the same sound like an ice cream truck, based on the above footage. But this summer, if anyone ever wants to play a mean joke on kids, just drive through the neighborhood and play a jovial song that lets kids think of ice cream cones and popsicles.
Being able to upload five tracks also suggests that individuals can apparently drive their Tesla vehicles across town with any audio they choose.
There are lots of other updates that come with the holiday upgrade this year. Car buyers have access to three new games they can experience when parked—The War of Polytopia, Cat Quest, and Solitaire. The firmware upgrade also contains Supercharge display upgrades and designed starting changes.
It could be the holiday spirit in me, but it’s pretty gorgeous to encourage your car to fart properly. It’s like something torn out of Shrek right away, better out than in!
