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My car has a TRON theme, and I didn't ask for it

From the Driver’s Seat · Jul 26, 2026 · Ownership
Tesla center screen showing the red TRON: ARES Light Cycle visualization, with a Planet Fitness parking lot beyond the windshield.
TRON: ARES on the screen in a Planet Fitness lot, Nine Inch Nails on the player, 41 degrees outside.

Somewhere in a software update my car got a TRON theme. The real one, licensed, TRON: ARES, with the Light Cycle parked in the middle of my screen and the soundtrack sitting in the media player. Tap it and the whole driving visualization goes red wireframe. My screen has been wearing it since last winter. That's it in the photo, 41 degrees out, Nine Inch Nails on the player, the Light Cycle idling in a Planet Fitness parking lot like that's a normal place for one. Here's the thing I keep coming back to. No other car I've owned would ever do this. The stereo you buy is the stereo you die with. This one handed me a movie tie-in with a soundtrack while I waited out a workout, because somebody at Tesla thought it would be fun, and they were right. It changes nothing about how the car drives. It changes a little about how it feels to own it.

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