Tesla Launches Steam In Its Cars With Thousands of Games (electrek.co) 105
Tesla has launched Steam integration inside its Model S and Model X electric cars with thousands of games now playable. Electrek reports: Today, Tesla launched Steam Beta for Model S and Model X as part of its "holiday update." We reported all the details of Tesla's holiday update earlier today for most Tesla vehicles, but the Steam integration is only for the refreshed Model S and Model X produced over the last two years. That's because Tesla's two flagship vehicles are equipped with a more powerful entertainment computer designed for video games.
With the unveiling of the new Model S and Model X, Tesla announced the new gaming computer: "Up to 10 teraflops of processing power enables in-car gaming on-par with today's newest consoles via Tesla Arcade. Wireless controller compatibility allows gaming from any seat." A known chip leaker, Patrick Schur, posted a diagram of Tesla's new gaming computer powered by the AMD Navi 23 GPU. The system is integrated and connects directly to two touchscreens inside the Model S and Model X to play games, watch entertainment, and perform other functions. Musk also revealed that the new computer has more storage space to be able to handle more games on the platform at the same time, which is going to be useful to handle your Steam library. The holiday update also brings support for Apple Music, an update to Dog Mode, improvements to Tesla's "Light Show" feature, and a bunch of smaller features/updates.
With the unveiling of the new Model S and Model X, Tesla announced the new gaming computer: "Up to 10 teraflops of processing power enables in-car gaming on-par with today's newest consoles via Tesla Arcade. Wireless controller compatibility allows gaming from any seat." A known chip leaker, Patrick Schur, posted a diagram of Tesla's new gaming computer powered by the AMD Navi 23 GPU. The system is integrated and connects directly to two touchscreens inside the Model S and Model X to play games, watch entertainment, and perform other functions. Musk also revealed that the new computer has more storage space to be able to handle more games on the platform at the same time, which is going to be useful to handle your Steam library. The holiday update also brings support for Apple Music, an update to Dog Mode, improvements to Tesla's "Light Show" feature, and a bunch of smaller features/updates.
Steam power (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, great. A steam powered Tesla!
New feature (Score:1)
Oh, great. A steam powered Tesla!
Yes, and it includes Self Draining.
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Autopilot that's not autopilot (Score:5, Insightful)
Now games on the console. What could possibly go wrong?
Re: Autopilot that's not autopilot (Score:4, Funny)
given that this only works while parked
Musk definitely won't be pushing this issue with the NTSA. He is notably conscientious about consumer safety and following the law - he likely just rolled out Steam games in Teslas because he knows how many people like sitting in their parked cars playing video games.
It does make some sense (Score:5, Interesting)
he likely just rolled out Steam games in Teslas because he knows how many people like sitting in their parked cars playing video games.
Actually it does make some sense, electric cars take a while to charge to a reasonable amount so if you are going to be there for 30 min (or more) why not be able to play games?
And the more people that stay in their cars while charging, the sooner they leave when they are done charging instead of the car sitting there hogging a charging station.
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That would be very early boomer's babies, essentially boomers themselves, even. The cohort of boomers is regarded as the people born right after WW2 'til about the mid 60s.
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That would be very early boomer's babies, essentially boomers themselves, even. The cohort of boomers is regarded as the people born right after WW2 'til about the mid 60s.
I haver a younger sister born in the mid-60's - she's retired. A LOT of people decided to retire after 55.
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1961 and 1960 were the two top years of the baby boom. 1964 is considered the last "boomer" year.
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Unfortunately, I can tell you from experience with some relatives and some parents of my kids' friends that being old doesn't mean you actually grew the hell up.
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Born at the start of the 60s is still technically a boomer, not a boomer's kid. The "generation" wasn't based upon being an actual generation but from the actual curve of the birth rate going up and then back down, which had a long tail. Technically I'm a boomer despite never having watched Dobie Gillis and Star Trek being more my age.
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It's either this, or I start working on my overdue project. Hmm, decisions, decisions...
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Perfect use case (Score:1)
Great point I didn't even think about waiting time to get to a charging station! Then you are really stuck in the car until you park.
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All you really need though is a tablet, it doens't even have to be a Tesla branded tablet. Or a laptop. Buidling it into the car is just going to cause misuse. Works too for kids in the back seat, you don't need to pay an extra $1000 so that your minivan has a built in video system in the back seat, and you don't need to rent the movies on the airplane either.
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I would have lunch or be smart enough to charge it the night before if I'm not on a trip.
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Then maybe you're not ready to own an electric car.
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Or more likely it's aimed at kids sitting in the back playing games on a long journey.
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has had games for ages. You have to be parked to use them. They're not going to carve out an exception for *Steam*.
At one point they allowed in some markets some simple games to be played by the passenger if the passenger seat sensor detected them without the car having to be parked, but that was taken out long ago.
The back screen in the S/X is of course unrelated and games may be played on it while driving.
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he likely just rolled out Steam games in Teslas because he knows how many people like sitting in their parked cars playing video games.
I think specifically for something fun to do while you're charging. If you'd just be at home for 20 minutes playing God of War you can just do it while you charge.
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, but its not accurate with how the real world systems on airplanes work.
You know that airplane autopilot is less featured than average cruise control, right? It's mostly "keep this altitude" or "keep this heading" not much. And it totally ignores all the "obstacles" like other planes.
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pretty much like an airplane autopilot (which requires supervision from the pilots at all times as a normal course of business...)
That's not how aircraft autopilot works at all. For large airliners and busier airports, the AP and flight director can fly the entire course of the flight exactly as programmed in the FMS from about 400ft above ground until touchdown and stopping on the runway without pilots pressing a single button after it is activated. Smaller planes do require some input depending on their AP's features, but even some small planes have these full-course flight capabilities and only require pilots to take off and land.
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Kids playing games while dad/mom is driving sounds like a lot less distractions for said dad/mom.
Like most things, this sounds like something with both pros and cons.
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Except they'll be playing it on the giant screen in the middle of the dashboard.
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I am sure I remember a landrover doing that maybe 10 years ago.
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There are two screens in the ad video linked in the OP. One is in front and one in the rear. Both can apparently play games. I would imagine kids would be playing in the back.
Front screen playing would probably be more about "fuck my life, I have to sit for half an hour to an hour at a charging station because this isn't a diesel/gasoline car, I may as well may it a bit more pleasant by playing a round of Vampire Survivors".
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Only if you're too stupid to charge at night.
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Most Tesla users are really stupid by that measuring stick, considering how much in demand various charging stations are for Tesla vehicles as far as I've seen.
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Kids playing games while dad/mom is driving sounds like a lot less distractions for said dad/mom.
Kids were already playing games on the back seat, but on a much cheaper tablet. And as a benefit, if there are multiple kids, each can play on his own tablet.
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Let's be honest here. Tablet games got nothing on PC games.
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Because PC games are significantly better on average. And from parental point of view, significantly less exploitative.
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Kids would also rather eat candy. And play with feces. Did you have a point, or do you just hate kids?
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Kids would also rather eat candy. And play with feces. Did you have a point, or do you just hate kids?
Sounds like you're the one who hate kids.
How is that relevant to my observation that kids today would rather watch tik-tok on their phones than play a game on the back screen of a tesla? At least that is in topic.
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The fact that "kids prefer to do things that grant them instant gratification and it's their parents' job to prevent that and instead direct them toward learning to enjoy more complex things with at least some delayed gratification instead"?
Where a decent median PC game that has far less predatory mechanics and far more skill based aspects to it serves that exact purpose as compared to a typical "you lose, now insert daddy's credit card to win next time" median mobile game.
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Just like black people are criminals, white people are racist and Jews rule the world amirite?
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Now games on the console. What could possibly go wrong?
Considering Tesla has been successfully sued [electrek.co] over false advertising for offering its supposed self-driving capability, I wouldn't get too excited. There will definitely be caveats.
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Now games on the console. What could possibly go wrong?
Absolutely nothing. It's perfectly safe. All Tesla drivers know better than to turn on "autopilot" & start playing video games while travelling at high speed. Now, stop asking questions.
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Autopilot is properly named, you brainless dimwit. When a pilot engages autopilot in a plane, he has to stay alert and at the controls. It's not Tesla's fault you're too stupid to understand that.
Also, the games on a Tesla only work when the car is in Park.
You really should be ashamed of yourself for making such an uninformed and ignorant post.
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Autopilot is properly named, you brainless dimwit. When a pilot engages autopilot in a plane, he has to stay alert and at the controls. It's not Tesla's fault you're too stupid to understand that.
Also, the games on a Tesla only work when the car is in Park.
You really should be ashamed of yourself for making such an uninformed and ignorant post.
And yet there have been cases of pilot error when pilots are suddenly required to take control from the autopilot, because they tend to trust the automated systems too much. Deadly 737-500 crash [aviationpros.com]
Just under 5 minutes after takeoff, as the jet banked steeply left, a warning alert sounded in the cockpit: "BANK ANGLE."
Two seconds after the alert sounded, at an altitude of 10,700 feet, the pilot in command disengaged the autopilot system to take manual control.
This pilot, 54 years old with almost 18,000 hours of flight time, half of that in a 737, clearly didn't realize that the autopilot had been compensating and masking the effect of the asymmetric thrust in the engines.
With the autopilot gone, the countering forces from the control surfaces on the wings were removed and "the yaw and roll forces of the asymmetric power rolled the aircraft to the left," the investigation report states.
The pilot was so unaware of what was happening that he steered the control wheel further left instead of right, which "increased the roll tendency of the aircraft to the left."
The plane rolled more than 45 degrees left and went nose down.
At that moment, the autothrottle finally disengaged. But it was too late to recover. The flight data stopped recording as the plane crashed into the sea.
One automated system compensating for the failure of another automated system, masking the true cause of the problem until it was too late.
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You could also see the 737 MAX's MCAS system as a type of autopilot, and it ran two planes into the ground.
I'd be interested to know what proportion of airplane fatalities in the last decade or two can be attributed to automated flight control systems malfunctioning.
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The commonly held understanding of autopilot is not the same as the reality of autopilot.
Every other manufacturer calls it a driver aid. Maybe Musk chose autopilot because he expected his cars to be fully self driving about 6 years ago,
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Tesla ALSO calls it a driver aid, you moron. In fact other car manufacturers have much MORE misleading names than Tesla's. man, people just regurgitate the dumbest shit.
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In fact other car manufacturers have much MORE misleading names
Yet you failed to list a single one.
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Given you've got to be stationary, I guess there's not as much to go wrong here as a lot of people seem to think.
This reminds me of the 90s when manufacturers were raving about how they'd put a 10 disk CD-changer in the boot (trunk) of their fancier cars. It was all fun and games, but completely obsolete a few years later when the MP3 player became "a thing".
The other thing that gets me about this is that this is making the news - all the legacy manufacturers are seriously missing a trick by not doing OTA u
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I'm not a Tesla fan, but autopilot on an airplane will happily fly you into a mountain.
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Or for greater irony, tesla's autopilot crashing into a parked jet [tmz.com].
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Now games on the console. What could possibly go wrong?
In some places that would be VERY illegal if it's visible to the driver.
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People are already shooting porn in autodriven Teslas.
I guess I'd be slightly less concerned about someone playing a game, frankly.
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Now games on the console. What could possibly go wrong?
Darwin works in mysterious ways.
Great idea (Score:3)
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Sorry officer, I thought I was changing lanes in GTA V, not changing lanes in the real world...
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You just know there will be mods that allow changing lanes in the game to be the actual interface to changing lanes in the real world eventually
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You just know there will be mods that allow changing lanes in the game to be the actual interface to changing lanes in the real world eventually
The hard part is in removing collision detection with hit boxes in the real world.
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the games only work when the car is in Park, you ignorant fuckface.
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Wonder if it can stream (Score:1)
I read through the article but didn't see mention of this - I wonder if you could stream the Steam games output to a computer or TV inside your house. That would get you potentially more utility out of a gaming system built into the car.
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Is it actually so powerful that it's worth to do that instead of just buying something like a steamdeck?
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At the time of the new infotainment system release last year, it had a Navi 23 GPU and was comparable to a Playstation 5 in performance. Not sure if there've been any upgrades since them.
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Looks like it has a Radeon 6600/6600XT level GPU.
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More a matter of, if I had one (I do not) I would wonder if you could avoid duplication of hardware.
Humans (Score:3, Insightful)
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There's no good reason not to have Steam on a Tesla for use while parked. The computer is powerful enough to make use of, the car has plenty of power whether it's charging or not.
There's no good reason not to have LIDAR on a Tesla, either
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Forgive me if I keep my distance even more from every other Tesla on the road. It's just that I'm in
Start the countdown (Score:2)
How long before the first person dies playing a game while they think the car is autopiloting itself?
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Thankfully, Tesla does not allow that. You can play games in the front only while parked. If not parked, no games in front.
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How long before the first person dies playing a game while they think the car is autopiloting itself?
Quite a long time since the console only works while stationary.
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How long before the first person dies playing a game while they think the car is autopiloting itself?
Quite a long time since the console only works while stationary.
Hm. As long as it took to defeat "driver must be behind the wheel with Full Self Driving" active? Shorter or longer than that?
Deck chairs on the Titanic (Score:2)
Well that's something for you to do while your 'autopilot' is mowing down all the bollards and pieces are falling off your glovebox.
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You cannot.
Now, video games while driving... (Score:2)
This guy is on some **serious** drugs! It might be fun to see him be the billionaire who loses the most amount of money in the least amount of time. Honestly, he **has** to be trying to tank this company at this point. **Few** are this stupid...
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Actually, it is for people to play while sitting around waiting for the car to charge up.
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Actually, it is for people to play while sitting around waiting for the car to charge up.
Seems to me that people would have better things to do - like stretch their legs to avoid deep vein thrombosis from being seated to long, a bathroom break, "recharge" their own "battery" by getting something to eat, or doing some shopping or seeing someone at a business while the car charges.
Dog mode ... (Score:2)
... because their lawyers would not let Elon call it "toddler mode". But the casino won't let either inside, so what are you gonna do?
I would have just been happier... (Score:2, Funny)
... if the Holiday Update this year just popped up a text screen that said, "AUSTIN, Texas. - Tesla Inc. today announces that due to his needing more time to focus on rooting-out Wokes at Twitter, CEO Elon Musk will be stepping down from his roles as CEO and board member at Tesla, and will be replaced acting immediately. Investor relations director Martin Viecha will be stepping in as interim CEO. Musk will remain with the company as an advisor."
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... if the Holiday Update this year just popped up a text screen that said, "AUSTIN, Texas. - Tesla Inc. today announces that due to his needing more time to focus on rooting-out Wokes at Twitter, CEO Elon Musk will be stepping down from his roles as CEO and board member at Tesla, and will be replaced acting immediately. Investor relations director Martin Viecha will be stepping in as interim CEO. Musk will remain with the company as an advisor."
If Musk didn't own the board I suspect he'd be worried about getting canned.
Musk has gone so far off the deep end he's posting Q-memes [twitter.com] and calling for Fauci to be arrested [twitter.com]. If he were a senior executive at any other company he would have been fired a long time ago.
Right when mainstream car companies are coming up with viable electric cars as competitors Tesla's CEO is alienating its core demographic.
My next car is going to be electric but it's sure as hell not going to be a Tesla with the political associat
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Download speeds? (Score:2)
Hoping someone with a Tesla can chime in. Can the car connect to wi-fi? If you're only on cellular downloading a game could be painful unless you have a solid 5G signal.
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Yes, it can.
Read headline and envisioned (Score:2)
Who what specs (Score:2)
Up to 10 teraflops of processing power
What kinda spec is that? No proc? RAM? Storage?
powered by the AMD Navi 23 GPU
Old stuff. rDNA2. Musk can't even get the good stuff.
I read the first part of the headline... (Score:1)
... and thought he's finally done it. Elon Musk has become the Bond villain he wants to be.
"Do you expect me to talk?'
"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to cook to a nice, soft texture, while maintaining flavour and color!"
can afford a Tesla (Score:2)
But don't want to buy a Steam Deck or Switch? weirdos