Contact · Tesla Light Show
by Daft Punk
One long launch sequence, closing out the album the way Random Access Memories itself closes: over a sample of Apollo 17 radio chatter. The show climbs with the track, pulse, then build, then more build, and the car runs widest through the middle stretch before the last section thins out and lets the noise take the room. Values are almost entirely hard on or hard off, only about a tenth of them partial, so it reads sharp and percussive from right across a parking lot. Nearly five minutes, tail-led, and the most single-minded thing in the library.
How this one is choreographed
The choreography is deliberately unhurried: the lights re-fire about 0.5 times a second, so cues land as separate moments rather than a blur. The peak is in the middle third, where roughly 40% of the car is lit against 24% at the top, then it eases back for the finish. If you are filming, the fullest ten seconds start at 1:59, when about 40% of the car is lit at once. Most of the work falls on the tail lights, re-firing about 0.6 times a second, with the signature light bar and daytime running lights answering back at 0.6. The work is split close to evenly between the two ends, 49% front to 51% rear, so it plays from either end, or side-on from the curb. The quietest part of the car is the inner main beams, at about 0.4 re-fires a second. It runs 4:48 and averages 78 of 255 across the light channels, a mid-brightness show, with real headroom kept in reserve for the peaks. The values are mostly hard on or hard off, only about 11% of samples sitting at a partial level, which reads sharp and percussive from across a parking lot. The longest full blackout lasts 1.1 seconds, just before the close, and that pause is what makes the next hit land.
Measured from the exported light sequence for this show, not estimated from the song.
Get it for your Tesla
This show downloads for every Tesla: Model 3, Model Y, Model S, Model X, and Cybertruck. Preview it on your model with the View-on picker above, add it to your library, and it re-tailors to your car's lights automatically.
How to play it on your car
- Open the show above and add it to your library (remix it in the builder first if you want).
- Add your own copy of the song: an MP3/WAV you own. We distribute only the light pattern, never audio.
- Export the
.fseqbuilt for your model, then place your song next to it (or let the one-click USB writer do both). - Put both files in a
LightShowfolder on a USB drive. Or skip the manual steps: in Chrome/Edge, click 🔌 Write it to my USB drive for me right after exporting and we do it all, verified byte-for-byte. Then plug in and start it from Toybox → Light Show. Full walkthrough in the setup guide.
Car says Light Show instead of Custom Light Show, or the drive is not detected at all? That is the USB format, the folder name, or filenames that do not match. If it plays but drifts out of time, that is the audio sample rate. Fix both here.
