You will eventually no longer be able to play video games while your Tesla is driving around. The American manufacturer should very soon offer an update blocking its “Passenger Play” feature, available since a December 2020 update on the Tesla Model S, X, Y and 3 and which, as its name suggests, allows passengers to play video games on the center console while the car is in motion.
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The American manufacturer thus takes the bull by the horns to avoid an unnecessary controversy, in response to an investigation launched by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about this function. In total, some 580,000 vehicles were included in the NHTSA investigation.
The American equivalent of our road safety considers that functionality can represent a source of distraction for the driver and thus increase the risk of accidents. If the function displays a warning asking if the user is indeed a passenger, nothing prevents a driver sitting behind the wheel to validate the window to play while the vehicle is moving.
Source: The verge