Oleg Kutkov, an X user, plugged a 3.5‑inch floppy disk drive into his Tesla using a USB adapter and the vehicle mounted the drive and played an MP3 file without software modifications.
Tom's Hardware reports the USB controller emulates a TEAC USB UF000x device and Kutkov said Tesla's Linux-based system automatically mounts detected floppy drives as external storage; playback of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" worked but skipped at points.
Kutkov attempted to format the floppy for Tesla's Sentry feature but the format did not work, and the drive's 1.44 MB capacity makes it unsuitable for video or large files.
Recognizing a floppy does not permit modifying Tesla's operating system or installing software, and practical use is limited by the medium's tiny storage.
This report is based on information originally published by Jalopnik.
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