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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.
Why a bad idea? Why an odd idea? It’s a powerful computer with a decent size monitor in a place where sometimes people have to sit and wait. What am I missing because seems like a logical / good idea to me?
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.
Why can’t it wait until you get home? We took ashtrays out of cars, so why would we put another addictive and distracting thing in there?
I play games too, but I also recognize that they can overwhelm some people.
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I’m not trying to compare them on a chemical or scientific level.
I’m just saying that I was able to quit cigarettes and I have had some friends who are not able to quit video games, so it is at least a little addictive for some people, and those people would not be better served by one more place to play.
I quit heroin but I have friends that can’t give up coffee…we should remove cupholders from cars while we are at it.
Hey, congrats! I’m 14 years clean from heroin myself.
Ok, I can see my opinion is in the minority here. Games in cars seems like a bad idea to me, but I’m not the king of cars.
Well, you didn’t explain why they’re bad, that’s probably why
As others pointed out it’s incredibly nice for the times when you’re not doing anything but are in your car, anyway. If the ability to play games is disabled while driving then is there actually an issue?
Seems like a great way to kill time while plugged into a charger to me, I already do it with my steam deck when I charge my car
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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.
Buying a Tesla would be a huge mistake then
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.
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.
Not videogames, but the idea that a car should also be a video game console sounds very childish.
Why concern yourself with how things sound?
…why, unless video games are for children…?
No, nothing like that. I’m just calling Elon a petulant man-child.
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.
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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.
Geewiz I bought my my car to play Steam game!! /s
Perhaps not exclusively so, but it could’ve convinced some to choose a Tesla over other EV’s.
I guess Musk hadn’t yet fired enough people after closing their entire charging station division.
“lose steam”
In which way?
(For those that didn’t get it, the joke is a double entendre.)
It’s literally the fist sentence of the article:
Tesla might be dropping Steam support
Oh no… anyway.
Whether my car can play games has no bearing on whether I’d buy that car. So, this is a nothingburger.
