Blog Tesla Cars to Sound Pedestrian Warning With ‘Snake Jazz’

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk says Tesla vehicles will soon play “snake jazz or Polynesian elevator music” out of an external speaker.

Tesla added external speakers in 2019 to be used for pedestrian warning sounds.

The concern is that electric vehicles produce less noise, so pedestrians may not be alerted to a car approaching. Automakers have started adding external speakers to EVs that are meant to act as a warning. Musk says owners will be able to project the music “wherever you go.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1296360799498391552

Many try to emulate the sound of a gas-powered car. Tesla cars, it seems, will sound a warning with jazz music. “Snake Jazz” is a reference to the television show “Rick and Morty,” a favorite of Musk. In one episode, snakes develop their own form of jazz music.

While Musk’s announcement sounds like a joke, you have to remember that he promised fart noises for Tesla vehicles and made it happen. 

 

[MarsOrBust]

Thanks, that did it. I am using Ice Cream sound as well.

It came on the DEC 25 update and its default to off so no need to turn it off.

 

[sjdicristo]

I can see the drive and files names. When I preview no sounds are coming out of the speaker. The Tesla files do work. But my files play on the inside speaker. Not the external. Any ideas?

 

[itgKIRA]

Created a quick video for how to set it up:

Awesome vid! Got it working sortve - the songs now show up, but when I play them they only play internally and not on the outside speaker. The built in sounds work properly on the outside speaker as does "Play current media" - but the custom sounds aren't. Anyone have this issue?

 

[sjdicristo]

Awesome vid! Got it working sortve - the songs now show up, but when I play them they only play internally and not on the outside speaker. The built in sounds work properly on the outside speaker as does "Play current media" - but the custom sounds aren't. Anyone have this issue?

Yeah, I'm having the same issue. Not sure why.

 

[hyru123]

Awesome vid! Got it working sortve - the songs now show up, but when I play them they only play internally and not on the outside speaker. The built in sounds work properly on the outside speaker as does "Play current media" - but the custom sounds aren't. Anyone have this issue?

I replaced my horn with a custom sound and am having the same problem. A temporary solution I found was to adjust the volume (left scroll button) right after pressing my horn. There's something weird going on with the volume settings when playing the custom sounds.

 

[valaeyron]

Wish it was possible to “send” a file to either the music or boom box partition without having to unplug the drive...

 

[MarsOrBust]

Well we now have Boombox and my understanding is we can add our on sounds.
My understanding is we need a folder labeled "Boombox" and I think the limit is 5 sounds but I am not sure what type of sound files nor how long they should be. I think a sound that can play in a smooth loop would be ideal.

Has anyone tried adding sounds yet?

 

[MarsOrBust]

My SSD is already partitioned with half to TeslaCam and Other half to Music.
If I add a folder called Boombox in the Music partition will that work?

 

[terrywhite]

Yep I show it here

 

[MarsOrBust]

Great video Terry!!!
Wish I saw your video first on partitioning for a Music drive, also a Mac guy and I knew how to partition but was not familiar with Tesla Specific file system. Too bad the simple solution of creating a "Boombox" folder does not work. Right now I have a 500GB SSD drive split in two with one side for Music and the other for TeslaCam.

So now what?
Can I have an SSD with 3 partitions? I don't think so, at least I have never tried that.

Other option is to use another USB port for the Music files and split the TeslaCam USB with Boombox.

 

[sduck]

Can I have an SSD with 3 partitions? I don't think so, at least I have never tried that.

Sure. You can add however many partitions as you want. (within reason, and whatever technical limits there is, which is probably ridiculously high)

 

[MarsOrBust]

Thats good to know, will make a third smaller one for Boombox.
This link has sounds files from the Jetsons if somebody is looking for sound files;
Jetsons sounds

I will try the doorbell sound for reverse.

 

[Huskyfan]

Can u add a different sound for just reverse?

will the horn sounds work while driving? I tried replacing the horn sound on pressing the steering wheel. Every time I put it in drive it turned off the ability to play a different sound via the horn button.

 

[MarsOrBust]

Hard to believe one has to have 3 partitions if you want TeslaCam, Boombox and your own Music files.
Why would Tesla not allow one to have it all on the same drive is crazy.

 

[jeremymc7]

Small point but it is the same drive but different partitions on the same drive. Three separate folders, instead of partitions, would seems more logical. But I’m sure there has to be some logical reason.

 

[MarsOrBust]

Three separate folders would be logical but NO, that does not work. It would be to simple.

 

[Teedub21]

Wish I could just replace the low speed sound instead of having to turn it on and off.

 

[MarsOrBust]

I agree, not very useful. I was also looking for a replacement and not a sound I have to turn on every time.
My Mosquito Noise does work when I want to go stealth mode at least, just have to turn it on every time.

 

[damageprone]

Hard to believe one has to have 3 partitions if you want TeslaCam, Boombox and your own Music files.
Why would Tesla not allow one to have it all on the same drive is crazy.

For whatever reason, sentry and dashcam doesn't overwrite old data and forces the user to reformat once it is getting full. If everything were on one drive, it would reformat all three folders each time.

 

[MarsOrBust]

If each drive is in its own partition then no.