There already are games in the vehicle. They're just all pretty lightweight. The newer GPUs have a lot more power for the newer Autopilot and FSD processing.
They can only be used while parked, and help kill time when waiting for people or while charging if you are on a slower charger or have a longer charge time between segments.
Or you know... While sitting and charging or waiting for someone I could instead use the much more powerful GPU that is already in the vehicle and used for vision processing. The one not doing anything while parked.
The games have never been able to be played while driving. A quick search would have told you that, but you're assuming the worst because you aren't willing to do even the most basic check and would rather blather on about a fictional situation you think is the case.
That's why you're getting down voted. The thing you're complaining about doesn't exist and never had. It's a pointless comment that just shows you don't know what you're talking about about, AND didn't read the article.
However, we now learn that Tesla is dropping the feature. The automaker wrote to people taking delivery of new Model S and Model X vehicles:
Tesla is updating the gaming computer in your Model X and your vehicle is no longer capable of playing Steam games. All other entertainment and app functionalities are unaffected.
It doesn’t sound like current owners are affected by the change.
Notice the phrasing of New vehicles and writing to people expecting delivery of them, not current owners.
Most likely they just don't want to continue having to support it at all going forwards.
Tech debt is a big issue with codebases as time goes on. Steam isn't necessary, and usage likely wasn't very high, so the time to maintain updating it was likely determined to not be worth it. So you end support where it's at with the currently deployed user base and let it die naturally.
That doesn't have any bearing on whether Tesla wants to officially support it on more vehicles.
If something breaks, people will blame Tesla first, even if they changed absolutely nothing. The average person has very little technical knowledge and essentially thinks of all of their electronics as a magic box that just works, until it doesn't. They don't care about the how, the why, or the who, they just care about whether it works or not. And if it doesn't, the first person they blame is whoever makes the box, even if they have nothing to do with the software the person was using.
You probably wait in your car a lot more than you realize. I pick up friends to go various places as I'm usually the designated driver, I'm often waiting out in the parking lot for people to come out. It may only be a few minutes, but a lot of the regular built in games (not steam) will load up in just a minute or so and occupy that time.
Or waiting at the cell phone lot to pick people up from the airport.
Charging waiting is likely the most common, but unlike what most non-EV drivers seem to think most of those stops are only about 15 minutes on a road trip. You aren't charging up fully each time, you just charge up for the next leg, and a buffer, and the car calculates it all for you. Otherwise you really should have a home charging solution, it's cheaper and you always have a full charge you don't need to think about. If for some reason you need to fully charge at a supercharger, that can take longer. Just like your phone can charge to 50-70% super quickly and the rest is slow, the car battery is similar, just much larger capacity. So that can take a while longer. The longest I've ever had to charge though for a nearly full battery from about 20% was 40 minutes. And that was because I was going to a very remote area, away from major highways with no charging infrastructure, so I made sure I had enough to make it back.
Most people probably would just play on their phones, but the in car games just provide an alternative. Just like Netflix and the other streaming services in the car. They're there for those waiting times, however infrequent they may be.
Yeah it only works when parked. You can't even shift into drive without closing the games.
On the newer vehicles with a screen in the rear seats, the games may work when driving. I don't have one of those to know for sure, but I think those allow at least things like Netflix in the back for child entertainment.
Any bets on how long it takes the Satanic Temple to have the Seven Tenets be included as well?
I. One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
II. The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
III. One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
IV. The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
V. Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.
VI. People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII. Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
The SCOTUS may be stacked but not even this court would agree with something so egregious. There needs to be at least a veil of plausible deniability for them to point to at least.
This SCOTUS has already shown several unexpectedly rational decisions despite their severe political bias. The common denominator in all of those is a lack of something to point to and twist to justify the position they want.
The Justice Department announced Thursday multiple arrests in a series of complex stolen identity theft cases that officials say are part of a wide-ranging scheme that generates enormous proceeds for the North Korean government, including for its weapons program....
We need a national civilian oversight department that handles all police and sheriff department internal investigations. You can even base it off of something already existing, NCIS. Their system works just fine with civilians and non-military investigators even able to handle classified issues, something regular police wouldn't even have to worry about. And outside investigators means local corruption isn't an influence.
Which is of course why it will never happen. Can't actually hold those with any little bit of power responsible, even a random beat cop.
A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected Tesla's bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk's electric car company of misleading owners into believing that their vehicles could soon have self-driving capabilities....
Also, he has 3 of 5 “strikes” toward a ban, because your need to keep you have on the wheel and eyes on the road. That’s right, a creepy camera watches you.
Just wanted to emphasize this because there are a ton of comments every time there's a Tesla involved in an accident (Autopilot related or not) with people arguing that there's no driver monitoring and seemingly ignore the fact that this exists at all.
The nag is different. The nag is the thing that requires you to put a bit of turning pressure on the steering wheel. You can be actively paying attention and have the nag register as if you aren't because you aren't placing any turning pressure on the wheel when it wants. This is what those devices that bypass the autopilot safeguards do, they just place a weight on the side of the wheel so it's constantly being pulled to one side just enough to trigger the nag sensor. That nag has been there since nearly day one, and predates the interior cameras entirely.
To be honest, the nag doesn't do anything to actually guarantee driver attentiveness. And even an attentive driver watching the actual road can trigger a nag warning by not artificially putting turning pressure on the wheel and not responding to the blue pulse on the display for the like 10 seconds it gives you at semi-random intervals based on speed and road type.
The interior camera on the other hand can actively watch the driver for attentiveness and can register things like eyes being closed, direction being looked, etc. it is a much better option than a more passive system like the wheel being just slightly turned. Cameras actively watching the driver are what many of the anti-Tesla folks like to point to as superior in similar competitor vehicles.
From my experience in my Model 3, the camera does a lot more to actually check attentiveness from my own pseudo-experimentation than the nag ever did. The nag is just an annoying option that doesn't work well, is easily bypassed and can get annoying requiring constant responses sometimes even more than once a minute on certain road types and speed limits.
There is a lot of government that operates on checks and faxes almost exclusively, usually due to archaic laws and legal definitions. Weird shit like faxes being considered as afditional originals, not copies.
You assume it gets off the ground. Starliner is 4 years behind, hasn't had a flawless automated launch yet, and still hasn't launched a manned crew, while the SpaceX Dragon 2 has made 30+ trips to the ISS on a fraction of the development budget.
What are you talking about? Elon is all over SpaceX constantly. It's easily one of the biggest critic complaints, just like every other Elon company.
The difference however, is that SpaceX has Gwynne Shotwell, and she is able to keep things on track, even with Elon. That is something none of Elon's other companies have an equivalent.
Does he think the non-vegan food is actually better? He's not going to get Michelin star meals, he's going to get the bare minimum necessary. It's jail.
With a smaller budget they can't afford to go after people that can afford actual accountants and lawyers to delay constantly.
They instead can really only go after low earners who can't afford a lawyer at all and have to deal with the IRS directly by themselves, and will just take whatever deal is offered.
It's literally the reason why the IRS recently had their budget increased and so they've been going after the rich that everyone knows aren't even paying the lower percentage they are supposed to.
Not sure about a legal requirement for a clear human error type mistake.
That being said... The prize was the point equivalent of $30 of groceries. They should just acknowledge the issue, and say that they're letting people keep the points anyway. Just shift it to being an unexpected $2.3M advertising campaign. I'm sure they'd get more publicity out of that than actually spending the money on traditional advertising nowadays.
The only people that think otherwise are marketers who get paid their consulting fees regardless and millionaire executives that have no idea what the average person thinks because they've never been one and believe those consultants at face value.
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You obviously don't live or drive in a semi-rural area at night with larger wildlife that tends to dart across the road in front of cars. All it takes is hitting a deer or javelina hard and going into a ditch.
EV conversions are definitely a thing. And the Golf platform seems to actually be one of the most popular.
After a quick Google, it looks like there are even some premade kits for the Golf specifically, even with installation available. Although I can only find UK/EU links quickly. May be more built-it yourself in the US.
Your article is from 2014. 10 years ago all of your other checks were NO as well. I can't find anything recently about atheists with a quick search, just old stuff like that.
The FAA has opened an investigation into Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner after the company disclosed that employees in South Carolina falsified inspection records on work done where the wings are joined to the fuselage body....
On a capsule that failed to deploy all three parachutes during its first abort test. And then also failed during its first real launch. Made it to orbit at least but it wasn't able to dock with the ISS as planned due to failures, just deorbited instead. Third launch was originally scrubbed due to valve issues, and wasn't tried again until 9 months later. Clearly wasn't just a simple valve issue.
Welp, scrubbed. Oxygen relief valve issue with the Centaur upper stage. Not actually a capsule issue this time... But that's still a little bit concerning since the Centaur isn't exactly a new rocket, it's quite a mature vehicle. Issues like that should normally be caught before they have astronauts loaded onboard.
A group of influential Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, and threatening him with “severe sanctions” if he does so....
There's an additional aspect. An interpretation of the end-times prophecy. Some believe (primarily evangelicals) that God promised the Holy Land to the Jewish people, and that reestablishing Israel's political boundaries will begin the end times. So as much as they may hate the Jews, they must be in power in Israel.
At launch the PSN linking was required. It was only disabled because the PSN servers were causing some of the overall server issues at launch. They made the decision to temporarily remove the requirement to get the game more stable while Sony fixed their server issues. I highly doubt Arrowhead though that would take nearly this long, so the number of affected users would be minimal. But clearly it took longer than planned, or Sony took this long to let them know the issues were fixed and they needed to require linking again. Given Sony's rather spotted history, it could be either honestly.
Linking clearly was intended to be brought back at some point once that issue was resolved. The only bad decision Arrowhead made was not making it more clear to people between then and now that login would still be required at a later date.
The Steam page listed the PSN requirement from day one. The sales page setup should have prevented sales in non-PSN regions, that not being done looks to be due to Sony as the publisher failing to limit that as they should. That's either sheer incompetence or greed to try to get as many additional sales as possible and try to force people onto PSN after the fact. Maybe both.
To be honest, the contract requirement for PSN isn't the issue here. It was there from the beginning, and disclosed on the sales page. Sony's shit servers were an issue, and the ultimate root cause of all of this bullshit. If the PSN servers weren't dogshit to start with none of this would have happened.
Phone numbers aren't exactly unique. It's really not much different than being assigned a static IP address from your ISP. They're assigned and if a line is cancelled or you change your number, it goes to a dormant state for a while then is reassigned to someone else.
Your phone's IMEI on the other hand is a unique number, similar to a MAC address for network devices. Unlike a MAC though, it is illegal to spoof or clone an IMEI. Infrastructure however wasn't designed to use the IMEI or MAC as the publicly accessible address, it was designed with a middle translation layer in mind.
Not 100% sure, my early history is lacking a bit, but I think that was simply because the fundamental network design underlying everything we use predates unique identifiers like MAC addresses existing.
I'm not saying it's not an issue at all, only an idiot could read by previous post in that way. But I guess I just consider that a lower overall priority than the State forcing someone to pay for another person's child for 18 years while the actual father gets off scot free. A lot of people live their lives separated from their spouse but not divorced every single day, even in states where divorce is easy.
But really I was just pointing out other ass-backwards laws various states have around marriage rights. Like the fact that even in 2024 there are several states that consider marital rape separate and treat it different than "regular" rape cases. Just because you're married, if you are raped by your spouse it's treated differently than if it were literally any other human on the planet. In some cases either with lighter sentencing or in a few cases, not a crime at all. In California for instance, even with the latest updates signed into law in 2021, sexual intercourse with a person who is "incapable of giving legal consent because of mental disorder or developmental or physical disability" is not rape if the 2 people are married. So it's totally cool as long as the spouse is disabled, and unable to defend themselves.
I'd say that's a pretty big issue as well, but I guess divorce is a bigger issue than the State forcing someone to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars through no fault of their own, or literal rape. Those are definitely tiny issues compared to a divorce, hardly worth even pointing out really.
If someone jumps to a conclusion that I never actually posted, attempting to call me out for something I never said, I'm going to call it out, don't really care what anyone else thinks.
Nothing needs to be spelled out. They are two separate issues. I never claimed one was better or worse than the other. I was just pointing out that there are other ass-backwards marriage related issues as well. We don't have to focus on just one fucked up issue at a time to get things done in society.
Reading comprehension really has gone downhill online, people jumping to conclusions all over the place just because they want to be angry at something or assume everyone else is.
So prioritized things have a higher or lower precedence or importance. But if they have equal precedence, then there is no priority. Greater than and less than are not equal.
You might want to re-read my responses because your reading comprehension of them is lacking. I never said one issue was more important than the other. In fact, I never said they were equal importance either. I just made a comment pointing out there are also other marital law issues.
You are assuming I said or meant some sort of priority between issues, but I never said one was more important. I said they all needed to be fixed and we don't have to do one thing at a time. That explicitly doesn't put any sort of priority on anything.
Repeatedly insulting me does not make what you said any less an implication that fraud and murder are equally bad.
And you claiming I implied something doesn't mean I actually did. I never made the claim you seem so stuck on saying I did.
Furthermore, a compromise law such as the one you stated would take a long time to craft, whereas repealing this law would be fast.
Ah yes, so fast it's been done already right? Because trying to change it versus repealing it is clearly why it's still on the books. It's not at all because legislators want it to stay, or just don't care.
Missouri does appear to have a way for citizens to petition statutory changes directly, so people could actually put together a repeal themselves if they wanted to, they just... haven't I guess?
Discrete units but both attached to the same ductwork.
Since A/C needs to operate on a closed system there's a one-way damper just below the Evaporative cooler where it attached to the duct work. The evaporative cooler on the other hand works best in an open system, so you can direct airflow best by opening windows in rooms that need more cooling.
Two separate controls as well. The A/C is attached to a standard thermostat. The Evaporative cooler is simple by comparison, just a manual knob with Off, High Fan, Low Fan, High Cool, Low Cool, and Pump only. The last three run the pump to keep the pad wet.
At night, Low Fan might be all that's needed even in the summer, just moving air. The cooler moves A LOT more air around the house than the A/C does since it has a massive spinning drum fan and an open airflow system.
Yeah about 15-20 normally, but can get up around 30 around peak summer with zero humidity. Above about 100 outside though it just can't keep up and the AC is needed even with low humidity.
So basically above 100 and above about 40% or so humidity, the AC is needed, otherwise the evap cools better and is a lot cheaper to run.
Tesla drops Steam gaming support inside its vehicles ( electrek.co )
Louisiana is about to force the Ten Commandments in every classroom ( www.friendlyatheist.com )
A bill sponsored by GOP State Rep. Dodie Horton would shove Christianity in students' faces...
Louisiana set to become 1st state requiring 10 Commandments be posted in schools ( www.axios.com )
Justice Dept. makes arrests in North Korean identity theft scheme involving thousands of IT workers ( apnews.com )
The Justice Department announced Thursday multiple arrests in a series of complex stolen identity theft cases that officials say are part of a wide-ranging scheme that generates enormous proceeds for the North Korean government, including for its weapons program....
Seattle cop who drove at triple the speed limit without sirens or emergency and killed woman in crosswalk, wasn't disciplined or fired, is now late paying traffic fine ( archive.ph )
Tesla must face vehicle owners' lawsuit over self-driving claims ( www.reuters.com )
A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected Tesla's bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk's electric car company of misleading owners into believing that their vehicles could soon have self-driving capabilities....
Google accidentally deleted a $125 billion pension fund's account ( qz.com )
Kamala Harris drops F-bomb as she urges young people to break barriers ( www.theguardian.com )
Harry and Meghan’s Charity Declared ‘Delinquent’ by California AG ( www.thedailybeast.com )
NASA wants a cheaper Mars Sample Return—Boeing proposes most expensive rocket ( arstechnica.com )
Ford Cuts Battery Orders as EV Losses Top $100,000 Per Car ( www.bloomberg.com )
Automaker is shifting its strategy for EVs as demand wanes...
Sam Bankman-Fried has a new currency to trade in prison: rice ( www.businessinsider.com )
Republican who voted twice against Israel aid wants to impeach Biden for threatening to hold it back ( www.businessinsider.com )
Woolworths tells 79,000 they won a prize, then rescinds it ( www.rnz.co.nz )
Woolworths has apologised to thousands of customers after mistakenly telling about 79,000 people they had won a competition....
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How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas ( sherwood.news )
Boy Scouts of America rebranding to more inclusive Scouting America ( www.pbs.org )
Boeing 787 employees falsified inspection records; FAA opens probe ( www.seattletimes.com )
The FAA has opened an investigation into Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner after the company disclosed that employees in South Carolina falsified inspection records on work done where the wings are joined to the fuselage body....
FAA opens new Boeing probe after company admits it may have skipped some inspections ( www.independent.co.uk )
Congress’ Odd Couple—Jeffries and Johnson—Mystifies Lawmakers ( www.thedailybeast.com )
Helldivers 2 reviews start to improve after Sony backs down from enforcing PSN account linking ( programming.dev )
EXCLUSIVE: “You Have Been Warned”: Republican Senators Threaten the ICC Prosecutor over Possible Israel Arrest Warrants ( zeteo.com )
A group of influential Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, and threatening him with “severe sanctions” if he does so....
Helldivers: We are talking solutions with PlayStation, especially for non-PSN countries. I am doing everything I can to speak for the community - but I don't have the final say. ( twitter.com )
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Why don't computers have "computer-numbers" equivalent to phone numbers
Why doesn't every computer have 256 char domain name, along with a private key to prove it is the sole owner of the address?...
Pregnant women in Missouri can't get divorced. Critics say it fuels domestic violence ( www.npr.org )
The turning point for Destonee was a car ride....
Arizona is boosting efforts to protect people from the extreme heat after hundreds died last summer ( apnews.com )