On December 24, foreign media Tesla reported that Tesla promised NHTSA (National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration) that it would turn off the game function in the case of vehicle driving.
On Dec. 9, The Verge said Tesla updated its software to allow occupants to play games on the center console while the vehicle is moving. Previously, these video games could only be played when the vehicle stopped.
The Verge confirmed on the Model 3 that when the vehicle is moving, users can play Sky Power Reload, Card and Multi-Tronian War on the central control screen, and when running the game, a message will pop up in the application interface to remind the driver that the driver cannot play the game, but the driver can completely tap "I am a passenger" to play the game.
In fact, before the update, some applications that require more interaction can be turned on while the vehicle is running, including the drawing board and karaoke mode in music.
One Model 3 owner told The New York Times that he had complained to NHTSA (National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration) when he discovered that the games could be played while driving. His complaints aren't the only ones, with Tesla currently having 59 similar complaints about the Model 3.
Tesla now offers an L2-level assisted driving software called "Full-Self Driving," which can indeed replace many users in simpler road conditions such as highways.
In the highway situation, human drivers are very boring to drive, there will be a considerable number of people driving AutoPilot, AutoPilot can also be competent for most of the tasks at this time, the driver may be distracted to play games, the game function when the vehicle is moving should indeed be banned.
Tesla's desire to make the car more entertaining is a good idea, but these features should only be used when the vehicle is stopped. When the vehicle is driving, Tesla can expand the audio business a little more, which will not affect the normal driving of the driver. Tesla can build an audio content platform and deeply optimize the application with voice assistants to ensure that users can complete most operations with their voices while driving, which is obviously much more reliable.