DIY: running a Claude agent inside an older Tesla via wheel buttons and Tailscale
informal-name- · reddit · 2026-11-05
A Tesla owner shares a DIY setup for an older Model without built-in AI: the agent takes over car controls via the dev platform, with steering-wheel buttons to start a chat. He mostly drives it from his phone—triple-tap initiates handoff, skip/prev buttons cycle through jobs or work items.
The stack is lightweight: headless Claude on a home PC accessed over Tailscale. Main pain point is the handoff between the agent and Spotify playback; he's asking whether others have solved it.
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