Why is a car capable of playing games in the first place. I understand it’s not going to allow people to play while they drive but still. That just seems like an odd/bad idea.
Electric cars have a very legit use case for this… extended charge times. The video games and streaming apps are so you can kill time.
Telsa’s have pretty fast charge times, but even those are slower than a gasoline fill up. Moreover, if you get cursed with charging at a non-Telsa station, you could be there for quite a bit.
Honestly I actually had not thought about people sitting around waiting to charge. In my area there are tons of chargers, grocery store, Costco, the mall, movie theaters. My experience had been that people would charge while doing other things. Thanks for the insight into a good use for it.
Yeah, sometimes you’re in BFE and there isn’t much around. Other times you just want to eat fast food in your car like an animal and watch a TV show that is too embarrassing to watch on the couch with your significant other.
People are so used to megacorporations controlling what specific software they can run on their general-purpose computers that they are now… in favor of it? Every day it seems more and more the case that Apple’s anti-sideloading propaganda is successful.
I don’t want a general-purpose computer in my car. I want a screen to do the federally-mandated backup camera and physical buttons for everything else.
I’m in the same boat. I fucking hate modern cars. There are no acceptable options so I just walk and use public transit… the data collection is so extensive I feel uncomfortable even catching a ride in a friends car.
The cars already have decent GPUs to process the camera data for driving assistance features, so someone at the company probably just thought it would be neat to do something with that computing power when it’s not being used for driving.
Probably similar to why you can make the turn indicator make fart noises or have the car “dance” by flashing lights and opening doors and such. The hardware is there so why not. Utterly pointless features but atleast it’s something the competition isn’t doing I guess.
Tho I must admit that it was quite funny when I once heard a guy lock the doors on his Tesla and instead of the generick “click click” it said “quack” instead.
Why is a car capable of playing games in the first place. I understand it’s not going to allow people to play while they drive but still. That just seems like an odd/bad idea.
Electric cars have a very legit use case for this… extended charge times. The video games and streaming apps are so you can kill time.
Telsa’s have pretty fast charge times, but even those are slower than a gasoline fill up. Moreover, if you get cursed with charging at a non-Telsa station, you could be there for quite a bit.
A lot of people camp in them too.
Honestly I actually had not thought about people sitting around waiting to charge. In my area there are tons of chargers, grocery store, Costco, the mall, movie theaters. My experience had been that people would charge while doing other things. Thanks for the insight into a good use for it.
Yeah, sometimes you’re in BFE and there isn’t much around. Other times you just want to eat fast food in your car like an animal and watch a TV show that is too embarrassing to watch on the couch with your significant other.
People are so used to megacorporations controlling what specific software they can run on their general-purpose computers that they are now… in favor of it? Every day it seems more and more the case that Apple’s anti-sideloading propaganda is successful.
I don’t want a general-purpose computer in my car. I want a screen to do the federally-mandated backup camera and physical buttons for everything else.
I’m in the same boat. I fucking hate modern cars. There are no acceptable options so I just walk and use public transit… the data collection is so extensive I feel uncomfortable even catching a ride in a friends car.
Because Elon is a child.
Do you mean to suggest that videogames are for children? I don’t really see where you’re coming from here.
No, nothing like that. I’m just calling Elon a petulant man-child.
Wasn’t it marketed as something to do while the car charges originally?
The cars already have decent GPUs to process the camera data for driving assistance features, so someone at the company probably just thought it would be neat to do something with that computing power when it’s not being used for driving.
Probably similar to why you can make the turn indicator make fart noises or have the car “dance” by flashing lights and opening doors and such. The hardware is there so why not. Utterly pointless features but atleast it’s something the competition isn’t doing I guess.
Tho I must admit that it was quite funny when I once heard a guy lock the doors on his Tesla and instead of the generick “click click” it said “quack” instead.
Nothing wrong with a little Cuphead while I’m speeding intoxicated through a school zone at 2:35 PM.
Edit: looks at her downvotes
Did… Did no one understand this was sarcasm?
So you can play a racing game in your car, while letting the autopilot kill you.
And so that the manufacturer can sell you a new car, so that you can play newer games.