Posted on 01/01/2021 9:35:35 PM PST by xp38
Tesla is giving its owners another way to express their individuality from behind the wheel of their vehicles. As if they needed it.
The EV maker released its Holiday Update, Firmware 2020.48.25 on Christmas Day, adding a few little gifts for recently built Teslas, including the ability to make the car fart or bleat like a goat at the outside world on command.
Through the new Boombox feature, users can now change their horn noise to a bunch of stock sounds including goat, applause, La Cucaracha, holiday music, coconuts and fart, each projected outward from an external speaker near the front of the vehicle. Boombox is available only on those Teslas (2019 and newer) fitted with the external speakers.
The best and likely to be the most offensive part of the new horn sound system is the potential customization, which allows users to upload up to five custom sounds from a USB drive. Something tells us we’ll be writing more headlines about this feature shortly—
The Holiday Update also tweaks the screen display and driving visualizer, plus adds some new games including Solitaire and something called Cat Quest, but who really cares about that. Because, you know, farts!
Wonderful... /s
Ooh....how about a full-auto machine gun sound?
That’d clear people outta the way.....
I want one.
A duck quack will get other drivers to look up from their phones, but it will not trigger road rage.
That used to be illegal here in California.
Well, I read years ago that Priaps drivers like to smell their own farts.
So, the oversized electric golf kart crowd would sure to be the same...................
Pious and holier than we deplorables.
My daughter and I were in a local park’s parking lot a few days ago headed to the trail when I heard this really strange and bizarre sounding vehicle coming up behind us. It sounded like a high performance engine, highly muffled and muddy sounding with a lawnmower overtone. Turned out to be an electric car moving slowly with the added noise coming from a loudspeaker to alert pedestrians. I’ve read that some car makers are doing that, but it was the first time I’ve heard one.
LOL, what is WRONG with that man!
“That used to be illegal here in California.”
Before queefing became a homo party favor?
Just what I need, a horn I can program to make farm yard animal sounds and other obnoxious noises. So the hipster sees an obese woman or cop, he can play pig sounds. This should be a hit in places like Mexico.
Do farts have lumps?
How bout sounds of an Uzi going off.
If they do, I'd see a doctor, STAT!
I just had this discussion with another Freeper about Michael Crichton who was an extraordinary man, who wrote a book I really liked: “State of Fear”.
What tickled me most in a perverse way, was Crichton’s portrayal in his book of the Eco-Terrorists...who all drove Priuses instead of...Chevy Suburbans or SUV’s...
Heh, there was something about the concept of being trailed by two shadowy figures in a Prius (or having to kidnap someone by forcing them into a Prius) that seemed so absurd that I grinned as I read it!
Years ago there was a Miata around MIT that was black and white, painted like a cow, and it made a ‘moo’ sound. It was great.
You can now get hi performance exhausts for your tesla
Skip to 6 minute mark
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6O5mbgjOaQU&feature=emb_imp_woyt
I’d want a range of fart sounds, not just a boring one
My brother put a “horn” in our family sedan, a ‘52 Chevy, that sounded like a cow mooing
Goat, La Cucaracha?
Who are they really trying to appeal to?
Write the company, tell them you want the exciting fart sound option.
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