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The screen displays a Mars rover. You turn the steering wheel to control where that Mars rover goes. I'd consider that a video game. I guess you don't consider
by desdiv 8y ago
The screen displays a Mars rover. You turn the steering wheel to control where that Mars rover goes. I'd consider that a video game.
I guess you don't consider that a video game, which is a perfectly valid opinion. But I'd just wish you had made your first comment "I don't consider Tesla's interactive easter eggs to be video games" instead. That way you clearly communicate your intent and this whole needless bikeshed could have been avoided in the first place.
- mikeash 8y ago"You turn the steering wheel to control where that Mars rover goes." No you don't. The Mars map is exactly like the Earth map, with a Mars texture instead of the map, and a rover instead of an arrow. Technically you control where the rover goes by using the steering wheel, because the steering wheel controls where your car goes, and the rover's movements come from your car's GPS. But it's not the sort of video game you describe. There's no way it could possibly work as you describe. The steering wheel is mechanically connected to the front wheels and still steers the car even when Autopilot is engaged, so it could not possibly be used as a video game control. The problem isn't my failure to disclose my opinion of the easter eggs, it's your misunderstanding of what they actually are.
- ams6110 8y agoAll the same I'd rather the developers at Tesla were working on improving the autopilot functionality instead of developing easter eggs.
- mikeash 8y agoThat's fair, but a radically different statement from "when you are in autopilot they have video games and memes to play/watch on the giant screen."