Tesla has 70,000 fulltime employees and this repo has 2 contributors.

It is impossible for this to be a tremendous waste of resources even if this was the only thing those employees did for the company. Its a rounding error.

Adding some joy to the world is not necessary a waste of resources.

What percentage of the world’s light pollution do you suppose will come from this feature?

Not much, I still just wanted to raise attention to the fact, that not everyone feels like more blinking lights are

"Adding some joy to the world"

for everyone. I mean, do you enjoy blinking banners on websites? I doubt it. Well, blinking lights in real life are pretty much the same to me. They either are important, like sirens - or they are noise to me and actually quite a lot of other people. But you have fun with your toy in the spirit that you will add joy to the world.

what does light pollution have to do with any of this?

Blinking lights are a joy for many on christmas, for others, it is merely annoying light pollution.

Oh lighten up…Tesla is pumping out a ton of value already.

I can‘t stand this attitude of yours. Not everything needs to be efficient, has to have a goal, make money or make sense. Have fun for once and put that capitalism brain aside for just 2 seconds.

It's a good marketing stunt for a company that doesn't have traditional PR/marketing. And curious how some pre-recorded flashing lights and opening hatches will inevitably "go wrong".

This was probably used internally to develop the built in light show, so open sourcing it wouldn't take much work and could generate some new PR buzz.

Waste of resources is how other car companies get attention of potential customers.