With the deepening of the degree of intelligence of cars, the computing power of car chips has become a new standard for many consumers and car owners to measure the performance of vehicles. Some time ago, the good cat model of Euler Automobile, an electric vehicle brand under the Great Wall, was replaced by the Qualcomm octa-core processor that was originally advertised with a higher performance without the knowledge of consumers, resulting in the collective rights of car owners and triggering a crisis of trust in Euler Automobile! So at the moment, especially with electric vehicles, intelligent "binding", chips, processors, which are not valued in traditional cars, have now become one of the core product forces of a car in the process of electrification!
In a general sense, the performance of the on-board computer or car machine must be the higher the better, which is of great significance for intelligent driving, intelligent networking, and human-vehicle interaction, but is the performance of the car really the higher the better? We may think so, but some institutions don't think so!
Recently, the US auto safety supervision agency began a formal investigation into the 580,000 Tesla cars produced since 2017, because Tesla Motors allows passengers to play games on the front row central control screen! As you may all know, the overall display effect and movement speed of Tesla's large screen are very good, and the experience of playing games is no less than that of a full iPad, so we also see many netizens on the Internet using Tesla's large screen to operate various games!
The above-mentioned agencies said that they have preliminarily evaluated the Model3, Model Y, Model S and Model X from 2017 to 2022, starting from December 2021, some of these models equipped with Tesla's PassengerPlay (Passenger Entertainment) function can still start the game in the process of driving!
In fact, from the current situation, Tesla's car machine computing power has exceeded the level of many notebooks and desktops. Because on Tesla's central control screen, it can already run a lot of AAA games smoothly, and students who are more familiar with the game know that the hardware requirements for computers are very high, especially large games such as "The Witcher 3" and "Cyberpunk 2077", and general desktop computers and laptops may not be able to move. But on Tesla's big central control screen, both games can run smoothly! It is reported that when running a large-scale AAA game, the comprehensive computing power of this set of car machines can reach 10TFLOPS, which is almost equivalent to the latest PS5 series host, and this level of computing power is quite a strong performance for large games!
Of course, from Tesla's point of view, Tesla does not allow drivers to play games during driving, but hopes to give the co-pilot passengers a way to "relieve boredom", so Tesla named this system "Passenger Entertainment" (PassengerPlay)!
In fact, from the perspective of computing power, Tesla's car machine can support the game of 3A games such as eating hardware, then for the operation of driving assistance systems, car networking, human-vehicle interaction, it is also a basic guarantee, it turns out that Tesla's car machine performance is indeed very good! However, from a safety point of view, even if the driver does not play games while driving, but other passengers play the game through wireless controllers and other ways, the game screen will eventually be displayed on the central control screen, the driver will inevitably see, and will inevitably be distracted, so in fact, it is not unjust to be investigated by the car safety agency! At present, Tesla has adjusted the use scenario of excellent functions, in addition to the parking state, in the vehicle travel, any driver and occupant can not operate the game through the central control screen!