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Tesla Is Adding Atari Games To the In-Car Display (theverge.com)
In the next software update for its vehicles, Tesla will include several playable Atari games as new Easter eggs. CEO Elon Musk said the update would be released in "about four weeks" and should include games like Pole Position, Tempest, and Missile Command. The Verge reports: Pole Position's controls will apparently be linked to the Tesla's actual steering wheel -- while the vehicle is stopped, Musk made clear. It goes without saying, but no one should be messing around with any of these when they're behind the wheel of a moving car. A much bigger deal for Tesla owners is that, according to Musk, software version 9.0 will begin to enable "full self-driving features" in eligible vehicles. The new update might be discussed further during Tesla's earnings call later today.
Now you can play frogger in ur Tesla while playing frogger with ur Tesla
What a shitty /. summary! Software easter eggs have to be hidden! That's why they're called easter eggs: because it takes some effort and luck to find them! If they're announced then they're features, and not easter eggs!
... it *really* crashes.
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what would the faa say if flight controls where linked to some game?
Self driving software should NOT NOT NOT be linked to a game in any way.
job for brakes.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
Absolutely. Do you really want to teach your young children that the car is a video game console?
Why would I want this? You have to be an idiot to want a Tesla.
I'm not sure but I think you answered the question yourself..
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nothing more than what already has.
Total assets ($k): 27,910,000
Total liabilities ($k): 22,642,887
Cash on hand ($k): 2,236,424
Combined gross automotive margins: 20,6% GAAP / 21% non-GAAP
Model 3 margins: Now slightly positive, in a quarter without any of the higher-margin AWD / P models sold (the latter two now make up half of all deliveries)
Guidance for Model 3 margins this quarter: 15%
Guidance for sustained profitability as a company: This quarter onward
Market says: +9% in after-hours trading
Aww, I'm sorry, did you have some short positions against the company?
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If you die in your tesla can you go back to your last saved position?
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
There's only one game that I hope they *never* include in the car:
Katamari Damacy
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It cheapens an expensive car
If you're actually a shareholder you may be interested in knowing that there's no space in the word "shareholder".
Assuming ethanol comes from murdered children and the hydrogen from magic, hydrogen saves 132% more lives than ethanol.
Musk would have to be stupid to think people would heed his 'warning' that they should not play games while driving.... so he disabled the games when the car is out of park, like every navigation console I have ever used in every other vehicle, right? It would be laughably simple for him to do. Any less and he is just daring people to play while driving.
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Except that's not even remotely true. The mix has continually polled at only about a third of reservation holders wanting SR. The biggest chunk of untapped orders is Europe and Asia/Pacific. They don't even start selling over here until next year :
If you're really, really lucky. The average wait times are measured in months. But some fast deliveries have happened.
Assuming ethanol comes from murdered children and the hydrogen from magic, hydrogen saves 132% more lives than ethanol.
that is not even my point.
My point is that self driving software needs to held to some like the faa software standards for autopilot software.
Not even that but when the car is stopped the control can change in to joystick mode??? What if some software falt makes that happen at speed when in non self mode?
Ed: that should read under 1/3rd. The exact number varies from survey to survey (several have been done), some as low as 1/5th, some as high as 1/3rd. I've never seen one come in at over 1/3rd. Of course, Tesla has the most accurate info.
Assuming ethanol comes from murdered children and the hydrogen from magic, hydrogen saves 132% more lives than ethanol.
No Grand Theft Auto?
Have gnu, will travel.
center screen is to near driver for it to have games on it. Maybe if it where back seat then go nuts with gameing.
the self driving liability issues should be bad for shareholders and with software with hidden games it's can be very damming in a bad crash say like when uber killed some one when there software failed.
would... you... like... to... play... a... game...?
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Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
So I am hitting 2 months with the Model 3 and must admit that the "newness" factor is really long lived with this car. For example, I had noticed that the steering wheel seemed to shake every once and a while. It did not seem like a serious "malfunction" but the other day I did Google the issue and realized I was really just experiencing haptic feedback for drifting out of my lane! Its these small, gradual and pleasant surprises that really make the car a lot of fun to own.
I must have been 3 when my family got me an Atari, and that was probably my first experience to an expansive and revolutionary new technology that seemed to grow along with its users. Consequently, it seems very fitting for Tesla cars to get Atari games.
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The real easter egg will be the hidden doom module.
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I imagine this was put in by the 'entertainment console features' team rather than the 'critical UI' team or the 'self driving' team. They probably ran out of work that they were actually supposed to do, and found time to put in some easter eggs (presumably the games are licensed from Atari, but throwing in an open-source emulator could be done quickly.)
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
Okay, how about this: I'm an actual shareholder, and Tesla has been doing easter eggs from Day 1, and they're always very popular and well received. It's a trivial amount of labour relative to the amount of positive feedback it generates. Kids especially love them (yes, a large chunk of Tesla owners, like the general population, have children). Unlike with past easter eggs, in this case, Tesla isn't even writing the games - they're just emulated Atari games. I fully, 100% support this, and think they should have done this a lot sooner.
I'd actually like to see a whole app store ecosystem, but obviously they need to be sure - if they go that route - that it operates only in a very tightly locked down virtual machine. Possibly restricted only to "respectable", established developers.
Assuming ethanol comes from murdered children and the hydrogen from magic, hydrogen saves 132% more lives than ethanol.
would like a good game of need for speed?
If i remember well, all those games use paddle controllers, so will map quite well to the steering wheel.
Most of that asset base is the plant and equipment. Cash and convertibles have risen a bit, but not nearly as fast as debt. That debt has bought property - that's good for bond holders (who usually get paid out first when a company goes bankrupt), but the property typically cannot be used as leverage for raising more funds/loans/debt.
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this could very well be some devs personal project, which he happened to be able to show to musk and maybe make a buck or so? you kindof have to give the benefit of the doubt on these kinds of things. others have done far more in their spare time.
Tesla's steering system is fairly conventional. Steering wheel turns a shaft that moves a rack and pinion. There's also an electric motor attached to the shaft for power steering and autopilot. Will the wheels scrub back and forth on the road when the game is being played? Tesla's system isn't "fly-by-wire".
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The fully autonomous driving will be on Pole Position!
Way to sleuth the clues:)
The drivers ed teacher didn't like the whole "spin the steering wheel at 100 RPM" tactic when I tried it...
Seriously, they should stop chasing distractions like this and fix the damn media player in the car. Its quirky and buggy to the extent that its a constant frustration, and the v8 "major overhaul" just introduced regressions alongside a coat of UI polish.
Of course that won't make for flashy press releases, or news attractive to people who casually browse headlines. You have to actually own the car, and drive it regularly, for any of this to benefit you.
If you're going to add software...
But since they are about to release a new version of their software, with "full self-driving features", could you hook them up to make it play Pole Position by itself?
Now that I think of it, maybe that is how they train the self-driving.
Tesla already has a web browser, with Javascript enabled. The security wheels came off that one long ago.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
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Which is fine, but I think Tesla/Rei now has to admit that the $35k is pretty unappealing and few people actually want it. So the idea of a really affordable long range EV has, for all practical purposes, been dropped.
In fact, you could say that the $35k version is basically a compliance car, in this case compliance with Musk's original promise. It's not something they really want to make, and it's not even very competitive.
That's all fine, it's a nice car and I'm glad they are selling loads of them, but it's time to drop the $35k claim.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
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How am I supposed to focus on a game while the windshield is still transparent??
Great, if mobile phones aren't bad enough, now there will be even more distractions causing people to just sit when the light turns green, further adding to traffic problems.
Does this mean we will have a 30 car pile up on I-95 one day because someone was trying to get the high score on Pole Position?
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Why? Because of the insane gameplay or the can't-get-it-out-of-my-head intro tune?
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You can get substantial fine almost everywhere in the US by texting or talking on your cell phone while you drive, but apparently playing Frogger while you drive is OK. God bless America.
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Because this. ;)
Assuming ethanol comes from murdered children and the hydrogen from magic, hydrogen saves 132% more lives than ethanol.
So when you're not driving, you can pretend to drive, and when you *are* driving, you can set the car to drive itself.
What a time to be alive.
This is the perfect vehicle to drive the to the gym so you can walk on a treadmill.
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Not in the least. $35k has been confirmed by two independent teardowns, as well as stated by Tesla itself, to be profitable. A profitable vehicle is in no way a "compliance car" But they're only - don't be shocked by this - pulling demand levers whenever they can actually make use of them. And at current production rates, they're in a flood of orders already. Demand levers include:
* Opening up left-hand-drive Europe and ASPA.
* Air suspension (minor, but some people are waiting for it)
* Tow hitch (relatively unimportant in the US, but big in Europe, particularly Scandinavia)
* Opening up right-hand drive
* SR battery
* Non-PUP
* White interior for non-AWD (minor)
* More showrooms (current showrooms are very few and far apart; Tesla mainly relies on word of mouth at present)
* Advertising (they'll eventually go there, but that's the last lever they'll pull).
When Tesla has the production capacity to serve higher margin orders *and* lower margin orders, they'll open lower margin orders. But what's silly is calling a vehicle that multiple entities have confirmed as profitable "a compliance car". That's opposite to the definition of a compliance car. They'll make money on every $35k Model 3 they sell, and thus have an interest in selling as many of them as they can.
They have to get the production rates there first, however. What's your argument exactly? I'm curious. Are you asking them to never introduce a vehicle that's profitable (SR, non-PUP) - that when their production hits levels to saturate global demand for LR+PUP, that they should just stop growing and give up the SR and non-PUP markets? Or is your argument that they should start selling lower margin vehicles immediately (despite all of the backlog for higher margin vehicles) and slow down their expansion?
Assuming ethanol comes from murdered children and the hydrogen from magic, hydrogen saves 132% more lives than ethanol.