Tesla Cars Will Soon Be Able To Stream Netflix and YouTube (businessinsider.com) 113
Tesla car owners will soon be able to stream videos from Netflix and YouTube from the dashboard, CEO Elon Musk said. Musk wrote that the displays in cars will "soon" be able to stream YouTube and Netflix. The software feature that enables this support could arrive as soon as next month, he said in response to a tweet. The video streaming would only work when the car has stopped -- how Tesla currently handles video games playback. In another tweet, he said the dashboard would offer "an amazingly immersive, cinematic experience" because of the car's surround sound and chairs.
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Current games (TeslAtari):
* Super Breakout
* Centipede
* Missile Command
* Lunar Lander
* Asteroids
* Tempest
Current (nonTeslatari):
* Beach Buggy Racing 2
Upcoming in the next release:
* Fallout Shelter
* Chess
* Cuphead
Unity and Unreal engines are in the progress of being ported. Roblox & Minecraft are targeted but not yet confirmed. GTA uses RAGE, and there's been no announcement of plans to port RAGE yet. Would be ironic, of cou
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This may appeal to a demographic that I don't belong to. But what I would rather them spend their time on is in-car assistants. The upcoming release will allow you to send and receive text messages via voice command. Imagine! You still won't have the same communication abilities in your state-of-the-art EV as you do in a Chevy Spark with AirPlay.
If they have the engineering chops to create full self-driving (or they think they do), then perhaps it would be nice if they added ANY voice-controlled navigation. You know like "Tesla, navigate me to the nearest supercharger."
But what do I know? I remember when walking was the only option. And there were bandits. And hills.
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Well according to your name and your Slashdot ID, apparently you remember Jesus.
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Lazarus Long lived for so long, he was able to time-travel back into history, fuck his mom (which then resulted in the birth of himself), and started his own religious movement. For all we know, Lazarus may have actually been Jesus himself at one point in his life!
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You know like "Tesla, navigate me to the nearest supercharger."
Tapping an on-screen button is hard! LETS GO SHOPPING!
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Tapping an on-screen button is hard! LETS GO SHOPPING!
I think the primary use-case for voice control is when you are driving and don't want to look away from the road to interact with a touchscreen GUI.
Seems like a perfectly reasonable use-case to me, since otherwise the only safe alternative is to exit the highway, find a safe place to pull over and park, tap the on-screen buttons, and then get back on the highway and continue your trip 5-10 minutes later than if you had just been able to say what you wanted the computer to do.
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Or the other safe way to adjust controls without looking, use knobs, levers, and buttons on the dash or steering column.
Touch screens to control things on a car is just stupid.
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Or the other safe way to adjust controls without looking, use knobs, levers, and buttons on the dash or steering column.
Sure, they work fine, as far as they go, but they only scale to handful of simple fixed functions. I don't think anyone is going to be able to design a general-purpose no-look navigation UI out of knobs, levers, and buttons.
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You want them to install a keyboard so you can enter details into the sat nav?
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You are supposed to be driving, not playing with some gadget. If you can't manage a map, a pop out key board would be an idea, provided it only pops out when the car is parked.
I was thinking mostly about operating controls like lights, wipers, heater/AC, radio, etc.
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it would be nice if they added ANY voice-controlled navigation. You know like "Tesla, navigate me to the nearest supercharger."
Huh? My 2014 Model S does this. Instead of saying "Tesla" I have to hit a button on the steering wheel, but the rest works reasonably well. It's not quite as good as Android (which is extremely good), but it's quite usable. Probably about as good as Siri.
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You are correct, swillden. The same is true for my Model 3 and I probably should have picked a better example. I would like Tesla to focus on making the driving experience the absolute best it can be. Can you tap your button and add a waypoint? Can you tap the button and ask the car anything about its current status (battery remaining, tire pressures, estimated time to empty, etc)? Can you tell it to control anything (wipers, lights, etc)? I haven't driven a Model S, but with the Model 3 absolutely al
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This is false.
The model 3 has wiper controls on a stalk and headlight controls on another. These are the controls you are most likely to need to change while driving, although the auto-high/low beams does work well (I wish I could say the same for the auto-wipers).
It's like you don't actually own a Model 3. Remaining miles (e
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Oh ffs I drive a model s and say all the controls are on the screen too. Model S has the physical buttons at just almost the right quantity (though lack of a sunroof switch sucks) but model 3 takes it beyond comfortable for me.
You can use the right scroll wheel to open and close the sunroof. You don't need to use the screen for that.
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Fair comments. I do actually own a Model 3, it's just not my only car...
The car also has scroll wheels (with push buttons) on the steering wheel, but you must admit compared to every other car in the world there are significantly fewer physical buttons available on the car you don't need to look at to use.
As for asking the car about its current range and battery status. The discussion was about voice assistants and the need to take your eyes off the road to get data. They are displayed on the screen. Loo
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Actually, it's smarter than this.
[Posting for the benefit of non-Tesla drivers.]
You can say "navigate to xyz" and it will plan a route that takes you to a Supercharger if required to reach your destination.
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This may appeal to a demographic that I don't belong to. But what I would rather them spend their time on is in-car assistants. The upcoming release will allow you to send and receive text messages via voice command. Imagine! You still won't have the same communication abilities in your state-of-the-art EV as you do in a Chevy Spark with AirPlay.
If they have the engineering chops to create full self-driving (or they think they do), then perhaps it would be nice if they added ANY voice-controlled navigation. You know like "Tesla, navigate me to the nearest supercharger."
But what do I know? I remember when walking was the only option. And there were bandits. And hills.
Ha!! If fully robot - no steering wheel or pedals - then entertainment!
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It takes a looooong time to recharge, and life is truly boring at the supercharger.
This to me is really the primary reason for this feature, they just don't want to come out and say it. What Netflix show are you going to watch at every red light? Even most YouTube videos are a bit long-form for such a short stop.
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At a red stoplight (actually, it's been green for almost 20 seconds - DRIVE ALREADY!)? If you don't think that's dangerous, I'm sure we'll hear about more examples.
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Generally, if I'm in the car when it's not in motion and not at a stoplight for longer than about 30 seconds, I'm ready to disembark.
I can think of exceptions to the above such as sitting in the parking lot, waiting for my wife to come out of $shop, but my phone has that covered already—and if I'm going to be sitting there longer than enough time to read the news headlines and the weather forecast, I can probably find something else somewhere else nearby to entertain myself with that doesn't involve s
and they want to have self driving cars? (Score:2)
and they want to have self driving cars?
also Tesla disclaims all responsibility does not save there ass with an 3rd party victim
Mobile night clubs! (Score:2)
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It's always the driver's fault when he gets in an accident. That's what being the driver means: ultimate responsibility.
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Does Tesla tell people not to use autopilot on windy roads? many people under the video say so.
Where's the blow job machine? (Score:2)
Immersive (Score:2)
Yes, the immersive experience of watching a movie on a 17" screen.
Maybe you don't need this... (Score:5, Insightful)
But I do want this. There are times when I am parked, sitting and waiting in the car for something or somebody. I'll pull up my phone to process emails, or watch a quick YouTube clip about something. My Tesla Model 3 has a large display and really really really good sound system. Would I prefer to watch the video there as opposed to my phone? Hell yeah!
Before you complain, know this: Nobody is going to force you to use their feature, if you do not want to.
I'll bet some of you griefers will still find a reason to complain.
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"What about the other drivers forced to swerve around the oblivious movie-theaters-on-wheels?"
Umm... This video feature only works when the cars is parked!
Why complain about something you do not understand?
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Have you never watched a short video clip on your phone? Ever?
I don't watch regular TV. At all. But a few short video clips on YouTube, on topics of interest to me? Yes!
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"they can generate revenue by playing ads or simply putting a paid icon on the UI whenever what they see as "their cars" are stopped"
They can do that in the future. Sure! And so can manufacturers of all cars with screens and network connectivity and software upgrade capability. Why are you singling out Tesla for something they have not done?
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Nobody will force us to watch TV on this device, but the rest of us will be forced to watch out for even more distracted drivers.
Thanks a lot.
Excellent! (Score:5, Insightful)
That, together with their upcoming "self driving" tech will increase the laudable efforts of Tesla to remove idiots from the human race even more.
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"That, together with their upcoming "self driving" tech will increase the laudable efforts of Tesla to remove idiots from the human race even more."
You need a gentle reminder of how many people die, when humans are doing the driving. The answer is about 37,000 every single year. And that is in the US alone!
Computers will never be able to match that number. Ever!
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Sure. I and I do fully expect that self-driving cars will get there and massively reduce that number. But this tech will take another 10 years or so to really work. I also am a bad enough driver that I avoid driving to prevent hurting others. If I could rent a self-driving car from time to time that would be very convenient though.
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Computers will never be able to match that number. Ever!
Unless Tesla hires some of those Boeing MCAS programmers.
Tesla does a lot of interesting useful things. (Score:1)
San Francisco cars? (Score:1)
Bit confused. We're supposed to not spend time in our nice houses with NetFlix and Youtube? Instead, we're supposed to be cooped up in a Tesla? Maybe this is for people that don't have a home any more in the San Francisco area?
Car is from getting from one place to the other. Enjoy the scenery outside as it is. Don't let life live you by inside of a Tesla.