Tesla drivers will not be able to enjoy this feature after the company disabled it, making it inoperable while the car is in motion.
This week, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration tested the gaming feature in Tesla cars after reports that they were distracting drivers while driving.
The administration investigated a complaint filed to it by a Tesla owner in November, in which the owner said he was able to play while driving, but that affected his concentration.
A spokesman for the department said: “Distraction-related crashes are a concern, especially in vehicles equipped with a range of technologies such as entertainment systems.”
And Tesla had updated its software for these games in December 2020, allowing the driver and front passenger to play some games on the central touch screen while the car was in motion, knowing that previously, access to video games was only possible when the car was in a standing position.
serious defects
On December 7, a US regulator revealed that it had opened an investigation against Tesla in connection with a complaint that the company had failed to adequately notify its shareholders and citizens over the years of the risk of fires related to defects in its solar panel system.
The investigation raises regulatory pressure on the world’s most valuable automaker, which is already the subject of a federal safety investigation into accidents linked to faulty driver assistance systems in its cars.
There have been reports of fire concerns from faults in Tesla’s solar systems, but this is the first report of an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The authority explained that the investigation came in response to a request from Stephen Hincks, a former quality official at Tesla, who, during his tenure at the company, filed a complaint about defects in solar energy systems in 2019.
Hynix, who previously served as Toyota’s director of quality, was fired from Tesla in August 2020 and sued the company, claiming the dismissal was in retaliation for raising safety concerns about solar energy systems.
In his complaint to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Hincks said that Tesla and SolarCity, which was acquired by Tesla in 2016, did not disclose the “potential for liability (of their products) to cause property damage, user risk, fire and other damages.” Shareholders” before and after the acquisition.
The complaint notes that Tesla also failed to notify its customers that faults in electrical conductors could lead to fires.
Tesla has told consumers that it needs to perform maintenance on the solar panel system to avoid a malfunction that could shut down the system.
Hinx said, however, that it did not warn of the risks of fires and did not offer temporary closures to mitigate risks or report the problems to regulators.
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