Tesla New Software Update – Romance Mode & Fart Mode

A recent update to the firmware in all Tesla cars added fun and goofy Easter Eggs for Tesla owners. The Easter Eggs are called Romance Mode, Pole Position, and Emissions Testing Mode AKA Fart Mode.

People were delighted to find “romance mode” and a drop-down list of juicy, on demand fart noises, that can be triggered with a wheel click or turn signal.

Romance Mode: Provides a video of a roaring fireplace on the car’s center-stack LCD screen (or, “only screen” on the Model 3)

“Experience the warmth of our virtual fireplace with Romance Mode. To enable Romance Mode when your car is in Park, tap the Tesla “T” at the top center of the touchscreen, then tap the fireplace logo in your Easer Egg tray.”

Pole Position: This is an adaption of the iconic old-school racing game Pole Position, still in pixel-chunky 8-bits but with a Tesla and set on Mars. You can only play in Park, and you use the car’s steering wheel to control the car in the game.

Emissions Testing Mode: Turn your tesla into a giant Whoopee cushion. You can pick from multiple fart sounds, including Not a Fart, Short Shorts Rapper, Falcon Heavy, Ludicrous Fart, Neurastink, Boring Fart, and what seems to be a fart randomizer. Interestingly, there’s options for controlling what seat the fart appears to be emitting from, which must use some interesting acoustic control.

Will you be enabling these features in your new tesla? Do you think tesla is wasting their time with these software features? Or this makes the tesla worth buying if you don’t already own one?