---
title: "New Tesla Easter Egg Lets You Doodle On Center Touch Screen"
description: "But do it at the charging station instead of on the road."
date: "2017-04-03"
modified: "2017-04-04"
authors:
  - name: "Caleb Jacobs"
    job_title: "Senior Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/caleb-jacobs"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/8903/new-tesla-easter-egg-lets-you-doodle-on-center-touch-screen"
categories:
  - "Car Tech"
  - "Electric Vehicles"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Tesla News"
tags:
  - "Autopilot"
  - "Easter Egg"
  - "Electric Vehicle"
  - "Software"
  - "technology"
  - "Tesla"
---

# New Tesla Easter Egg Lets You Doodle On Center Touch Screen

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Since its inception, Tesla has been known to plant cheeky Easter eggs in its vehicles. In the past, Tesla has hidden features like rainbow glowing charge ports and a James Bond-themed submarine illustration of an owner's car à la *The Spy Who Loved Me.* Now, Elon Musk has hinted at another via his Twitter account. According to the tweet, simply tap the Tesla logo on the screen three times, and you'll be then prompted with a screen that allows you to sketch and doodle, much like the early days of Microsoft paint.

Musk has already shown off Tesla owners' portraits on his Twitter feed as well. You can see here the series of releases that Musk has put out over the last several days.

https://twitter.com/_/status/847234747747020800

https://twitter.com/_/status/847259545755820033

This is all part of one of the most significant updates to Tesla's software. Along with the sketch pad, cars equipped with Autopilot V8.1 can be parked autonomously from the key fob or Tesla app on a phone. Also, Autosteer can now be enabled at 80 mph as opposed to 55 mph in the last version. These new features round out this stage of Tesla's Autopilot system.

## Author
Caleb Jacobs is The Drive’s senior editor. When he’s not searching for stories or poring over copy, he’s usually driving his dump truck or wishing it was running so he could drive it. He was born and raised in the Missouri Ozarks, and he lives there today with his family.

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