{"id":133130,"date":"2021-12-27T00:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T08:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/tesla-shuts-down-passenger-play-that-allows-users-to-play-video-games-on-center-screen-while-driving"},"modified":"2021-12-27T00:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T08:22:47","slug":"tesla-shuts-down-passenger-play-that-allows-users-to-play-video-games-on-center-screen-while-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/tesla-shuts-down-passenger-play-that-allows-users-to-play-video-games-on-center-screen-while-driving","title":{"rendered":"Tesla shuts down \u2018passenger play\u2019 that allows users to play video games on center screen while driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-shuts-down-passenger-play-that-allows-users-to-play-video-games-on-center-screen-while-driving2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla confirmed that it will shut down \u201cpassenger play,\u201d which allows for playing video games on the center screen of its vehicles while driving. The change comes after NHTSA announced that it is opening an official probe into the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla has recently been putting more work toward video games inside its vehicles with the goal to \u201coptimize fun\u201d with its ownership experience.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, we reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2020\/08\/31\/tesla-video-game-user-interface-team-austin\/\">Tesla building a new video game and user interface team<\/a> in Austin, Texas. The goal is to build the platform, Tesla Arcade, and onboard as many video games as possible. Video games are primarily supposed to be used while parked and charging, but Tesla allows playing them while driving after a warning that the feature \u2014 called \u201cpassenger play\u201d \u2013should only be used by passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla confirmed that it will shut down \u201cpassenger play,\u201d which allows for playing video games on the center screen of its vehicles while driving. The change comes after NHTSA announced that it is opening an official probe into the situation. Tesla has recently been putting more work toward video games inside its vehicles with the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133130","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}