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irish_link@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Why is a car capable of playing games in the first place. I understand it’s not going to allow people to play while they drive but still. That just seems like an odd/bad idea.
Electric cars have a very legit use case for this… extended charge times. The video games and streaming apps are so you can kill time.
Telsa’s have pretty fast charge times, but even those are slower than a gasoline fill up. Moreover, if you get cursed with charging at a non-Telsa station, you could be there for quite a bit.
A lot of people camp in them too.
Honestly I actually had not thought about people sitting around waiting to charge. In my area there are tons of chargers, grocery store, Costco, the mall, movie theaters. My experience had been that people would charge while doing other things. Thanks for the insight into a good use for it.
Yeah, sometimes you’re in BFE and there isn’t much around. Other times you just want to eat fast food in your car like an animal and watch a TV show that is too embarrassing to watch on the couch with your significant other.
People are so used to megacorporations controlling what specific software they can run on their general-purpose computers that they are now… in favor of it? Every day it seems more and more the case that Apple’s anti-sideloading propaganda is successful.
I don’t want a general-purpose computer in my car. I want a screen to do the federally-mandated backup camera and physical buttons for everything else.
Buying a Tesla would be a huge mistake then
Because Elon is a child.
Do you mean to suggest that videogames are for children? I don’t really see where you’re coming from here.
Not videogames, but the idea that a car should also be a video game console sounds very childish.
…why, unless video games are for children…?
No, nothing like that. I’m just calling Elon a petulant man-child.
As someone without an electric car, i always assumed it was for something to do while charging.
The cars already have decent GPUs to process the camera data for driving assistance features, so someone at the company probably just thought it would be neat to do something with that computing power when it’s not being used for driving.
Wasn’t it marketed as something to do while the car charges originally?
Ah yes, run the battery down while charging.
Yes, I know the scale is vastly different between driving charge and game lmaying charge, but it still sounds like revving your engine wile filling with gas.
I mean, literal orders of magnitude difference.
Playing a game uses such a ridiculously small amount of electricity compared to the amount that is pumped in through a supercharger, I would honestly be shocked if the difference between playing a game while charging versus not playing while charging was in the minutes.
Well, depending on state of charge, supercharging goes up to 250kW. A state of the art PC (4090, Ryzen 9 etc) draws about 850-900 watts on full load. That means such a computer would use 0.004% of available power thus extremely negligible. And the APU (Ryzen-based media system) inside Tesla’s probably uses more around 200-400 watts under full load.
Tell me you are not American without telling me you are not American
So you can play a racing game in your car, while letting the autopilot kill you.
Nothing wrong with a little Cuphead while I’m speeding intoxicated through a school zone at 2:35 PM.
Probably similar to why you can make the turn indicator make fart noises or have the car “dance” by flashing lights and opening doors and such. The hardware is there so why not. Utterly pointless features but atleast it’s something the competition isn’t doing I guess.
Tho I must admit that it was quite funny when I once heard a guy lock the doors on his Tesla and instead of the generick “click click” it said “quack” instead.
I never wait around while the car is charging (generally only charge at home), but this has been useful for waiting to board a ferry, actually being in the car on a ferry, and waiting for road closures to clear.
I also do have a steam deck, and this is basically the same thing but with a bigger screen.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Why a bad idea? Why an odd idea? It’s a powerful computer with a decent size monitor in a place where sometimes people have to sit and wait. What am I missing because seems like a logical / good idea to me?
irish_link@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Honestly I actually had not thought about people sitting around waiting to charge. In my area there are tons of chargers, grocery store, Costco, the mall, movie theaters. My experience had been that people would charge while doing other things. Thanks for the insight into a good use for it.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Not even just waiting to charge. Picking someone up, but your schedule gets you there 15 minutes before they’re available? Why not put that computer to use?
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Why can’t it wait until you get home? We took ashtrays out of cars, so why would we put another addictive and distracting thing in there?
I play games too, but I also recognize that they can overwhelm some people.
lud@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Lol, games are far far far less addictive than cigarettes. Cigarettes has nicotine which is an actual addictive drug. Games are fun.
Even comparing them at all is fairly disingenuous.
It’s not distracting anyone, I doubt it could even be played if you are in a queue that is moving at 0,3 m/s
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I’m not trying to compare them on a chemical or scientific level.
I’m just saying that I was able to quit cigarettes and I have had some friends who are not able to quit video games, so it is at least a little addictive for some people, and those people would not be better served by one more place to play.