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Tesla Update Allows Video Games While Driving, and the Feds Aren’t Happy

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Re: Tesla Update Allows Video Games While Driving, and the Feds Aren’t Happy

#5

There is a cabin camera that detects when you are no paying attention to the road.

I'm pretty sure they have sensors showing which seats are occupied too - if there isn't a passenger detected, you shouldn't be able to launch the games in the first place - nevermind having to click and confirm you're a passenger.

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#6

There is a cabin camera that detects when you are no paying attention to the road.

Tesla user here: It does not work.

My Model 3 does not disable autopilot or enables any kind of warning even if you play games with the controller while driving... At least in Europe. Please note that I just tried this once for sake of science and Im not interested in putting lifes in risk

Re: Tesla Update Allows Video Games While Driving, and the Feds Aren’t Happy

#7
This is a known tactic by Elon.

He does something that is so incredibly outrageous knowing it will get denied but in doing so, it pushes your mental anchor so far out, that it allows him to "meet in the middle" to get something approved that would not have been approved otherwise if he hadn't anchored you so far out.

Re: Tesla Update Allows Video Games While Driving, and the Feds Aren’t Happy

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I'm quite happy as a passenger to play some games in tesla while on a road trip. Tesla's multi media center is a vision of phone-less experience in the car. I can see every day people swiping their phones, doing shopping while driving. In fact every 3rd 4th traffic light "sleeping" driver is due to the phone. How tesla games are that different from having a phone? Tesla at least doing some measures to prevent this. The order of problem of a phone with Tesla screen is not even comparable. And yes, FSD beta detects when you're on the phone.

Does any car manufacture or phone manufacture ( AppleCar android auto doing something to stop this )?

Re: Tesla Update Allows Video Games While Driving, and the Feds Aren’t Happy

#9

There is a cabin camera that detects when you are no paying attention to the road.

Tesla user here: It does not work. My Model 3 does not disable autopilot or enables any kind of warning even if you play games with the controller while driving... At least in Europe. Please note that I just tried this once for sake of science and Im not interested in putting lifes in risk

Tesla Model Y Driver. With FSD beta it will disable autopilot even if you stare too much on a screen. It also detects when you're on the phone. It's quite strict.

Re: Tesla Update Allows Video Games While Driving, and the Feds Aren’t Happy

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tesla user here: It does not work. My Model 3 does not disable autopilot or enables any kind of warning even if you play games with the controller while driving... At least in Europe. Please note that I just tried this once for sake of science and Im not interested in putting lifes in risk

Tesla Model Y Driver. With FSD beta it will disable autopilot even if you stare too much on a screen. It also detects when you're on the phone. It's quite strict.

Thats why I specified I was in Europe... I think that here even the front camera is not providing any kind of video feed to the computers for "privacy reasons"
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