{"id":131983,"date":"2021-12-08T07:23:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/tesla-is-now-letting-drivers-play-video-games-while-the-car-is-moving"},"modified":"2021-12-08T07:23:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:23:01","slug":"tesla-is-now-letting-drivers-play-video-games-while-the-car-is-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/tesla-is-now-letting-drivers-play-video-games-while-the-car-is-moving","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Is Now Letting Drivers Play Video Games While the Car Is Moving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-is-now-letting-drivers-play-video-games-while-the-car-is-moving2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla is allowing drivers \u2014 yes, the person behind the wheel who is ideally preoccupied with tasks such as \u201csteering\u201d \u2014 to play video games on its vehicles\u2019 massive console touchscreens while driving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI only did it for like five seconds and then turned it off,\u201d Tesla owner Vince Patton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/07\/business\/tesla-video-game-driving.html\" class=\"\">told <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m astonished. To me, it just seems inherently dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The feature has reportedly been available for some time. Given that the company is already <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/tesla-engineers-elon-musk-autopilot\" class=\"\">facing fierce scrutiny<\/a> for rolling out its still unfinished Full Self-Driving beta to customers, it\u2019s not exactly a good look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla is allowing drivers \u2014 yes, the person behind the wheel who is ideally preoccupied with tasks such as \u201csteering\u201d \u2014 to play video games on its vehicles\u2019 massive console touchscreens while driving. \u201cI only did it for like five seconds and then turned it off,\u201d Tesla owner Vince Patton told The New York Times. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}