GAME ON: You can now game while DRIVING your Tesla!

Are you one of those people who thinks they could pay attention to the responsibilities of driving while gaming? What about just watching a game while driving? Who hasn’t streamed a bit of Twitch on a long drive, am I right?

Big papi Elon has solved that by building a game console into modern Tesla cars! A new report from the New York Times claims that you can play three games while driving — a far cry from the over 20 games that can be played while the car is parked. The games are Solitare, a jet fighting game called Sky Force Reloaded and a strategy game, Battle of Polytopia: Moonrise.

In all seriousness, I assume these games are unlocked so the passenger can play while they wait to get to their destination. Even then, I still think it’s a bit of an unnecessary distraction for the driver. The report mentions that when you open Solitaire, it does warn you with, “Solitaire is a game for everyone, but playing while the car is in motion is only for passengers.” The game also plays on the right side of the screen instead of being full screen, so it’s closer to the passenger.

However, there is no mention of a warning on the other two games, leading me to believe that they don’t have one. Also, since Solitare is the only game I could see any person attempting to play while locked in traffic or while using autopilot, the fact that it has a warning heavily suggests Tesla knows that people can, and will, play these games while driving.

Distracted driving is already a massive problem on the roads with phones, so I wouldn’t expect these games to help with that. And to be honest, the passengers don’t need this since I assume that a vast majority of people have their own phones to play games on. We’ve already seen people trying to drive while sitting in the backseat, so there really is no end to humans’ stupidity when driving.

Driving.ca also mentions that if Telsa implemented technology like GM’s SuperCruise that used eye-tracking, this could be less of an issue.

Source: The New York Times, Driving.ca