Sheryl Crow’s Tesla screen goes dark, Elon Musk saves the day

Musk, to the rescue!
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Stan Schroeder
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Sheryl Crow’s Tesla screen goes dark, Elon Musk saves the day
If your Tesla's screen is too dark, maybe you only need to tweak the settings. Credit: Sergei Fadeichev\TASS via Getty Images

What do you do when your Tesla's screen goes black? Well, you take it to Twitter and have Elon Musk solve the problem for you, of course.

It probably also helps if you're famous.

On Wednesday, Sheryl Crow queried the Twitterverse about her Tesla's screen misbehaving.

"Help! Who knows what to do when your @Tesla screen goes black and the reset doesn’t work? Return it and get your money back??," she tweeted.

It does sound like a nasty problem, but it's actually quite easy to solve. According to Musk, Tesla's Night mode, when brightness is at 0 percent, is too dark during the day, and the company will update the software to remedy this. For now, the solution is to change your screen preference from Night mode to auto, sayeth Musk.

Musk also later tweeted the company would also tweak Night mode default brightness, which is currently "too high."

Although it's unclear who gave her the right advice, Crow later tweeted that she managed to solve the problems by changing the car's settings.

And if you're wondering whether she's really selling her Tesla, the answer is no.

Endings don't get any better than this.

Topics Tesla Elon Musk

Stan Schroeder
Stan Schroeder
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Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is a phone, a coin, or a car. His ultimate goal is to know something about everything.

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