🔴 [Analyst wording] Tesla rolls out 2026.38.3 update, launching Halloween mode

Summary:
Not a Tesla App reports that Tesla has rolled out Halloween mode with software update 2026.38.3, including a ghost car avatar, graveyard parking scene, Trick or Treat mode, Halloween light show, and spooky sound effects, confirmed to support AMD infotainment system vehicles.

Content summary:

  • After teasing last week, Tesla has now officially rolled out Halloween mode with the 2026.38.3 update. In its announcement on X, Tesla said the update turns the vehicle into a "haunted house on wheels."
  • When enabled, the vehicle avatar becomes a ghost draped in a white sheet; when parked, the full-screen visualization switches to a graveyard scene, including a full moon, haunted house, dead trees, glowing jack-o'-lanterns, and zombie hands reaching out of the ground; when a door opens, the ghost car opens its door in sync, and a skeleton climbs into the vehicle.
  • While driving, the vehicle keeps its ghost form in the navigation visualization, surrounding vehicles turn green, and pedestrians become walking skeletons; when using FSD (Supervised), the path ahead changes from blue to purple.
  • Trick or Treat mode is like an enhanced version of Sentry Mode: when someone approaches after you leave the vehicle, it plays spooky sound effects and flashes the lights, while still recording as usual; it also adds a new Halloween light show, new lock sound, Halloween-themed wraps, a Polaroid-style photo booth, and spooky Boombox voice lines.
  • This mode is confirmed to support AMD infotainment system vehicles; support for Intel vehicles is unconfirmed; due to graphics performance limitations, Intel vehicles will not get the full-screen parking scene and new photo booth stickers, but custom wraps and lock sounds should carry over, while the Halloween driving visuals remain uncertain.
  • The same version update also brings Emergency Drive Away (immediately disconnecting from a Supercharger and driving away in an emergency) and Powershare Home Backup for the new Model 3 and Model Y.

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