While most of us stay at home full of empty boats full of chip bags, Tesla boss Elon Musk is still in his royal, bizarre, lotus-shaped palace, rising three feet above the visible pool, leaking with The Power of Ideas and taking out the beams of light complementary and endless stream of ideas. Of course, some of these snake ideas, such as the ones he had brainwashed last weekend about the ability to play video games with your car, while driving, sort of Pokemon Go, but, you know, in your car.
Here is the twitter in question:
It starts out innocently enough, and lately Installed Elon reaches out to his organizations to see if anyone wants to use the effort to get the multiplayer Mincraft running on the touchscreen of Tesla's center stack, and then move on to his big, big brain: what about games, like Pokemon Go, that are real add-ons, but can be played while
Now, let me be completely clear and say that I'm at the forefront of automotive and video games, and even do my own research in the exciting field of control of goofy video games and all cars. I'm not the only one—people make their cars able to play Mario Kart, as suggested by Elon.
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And, of course, the idea of driving cars to play great Pac-Man games is beautifully quoted in the disappointing yet shitty 2015 movie, Pixels:
There is an important difference here, of course: in cases of using a car as a controller for games like Mario Kart or my Pole Position-playing Lancia, the car travels very fast while playing games, and, in the case of a car pack. -Man, it was a stupid movie, but even in the movie it takes place on closed streets successfully.
Elon's recommendation, though, is very different, because he uses Pokemon Go as his example. In Pokemon Go, people are walking around the real world looking like animals that have been genuinely anointed on their phone screens.
In the case of Pokemon Go, the people have already been killed because distracted drivers trying to play the game and driving at the same time. The new mix of Pokemon Go reality and gameplay is fun and adds a nice layer of fun to the boring-ass reality, but that actual mix and look causes enough problems that there really are. Pokemon Go Death Tracker a location that records how many people were killed or injured as a result Pokemon Go accidents or injuries.
Not all of this is a result of people not paying enough attention to the real world, but most of them are, and applying this concept to people driving sounds like a recipe for a lot of trouble.
The "complicated Pac-Man or Mario Kart" type would work well if the car was parked, or if something was found in the passengers, but I'm not even sure that something like this would work for the driver and allow the driver to drive safely.
If you read what you have noted, you may see dozens of people looking for a windscreen and / or side windows to be signs of this translucent text, which when this happens while driving, seems like a surprisingly bad idea.
If you are driving, you should be to drive, right there, in the virtual reality of where you and your car are, and if the driving action and some music or podcast is not enough to keep your good, lovely mind alive and happy, then, maybe, maybe driving is not your job, you're smart.
Or with Tesla & # 39; s Level 2 Autopilot driver programs, is still a bad idea, because we ask the driver to do two things at the same time: take steps to accelerate the pace of the game and steer and control the 3,000+ speed car on public roads.
Choose a symbolic or literal road, Elon. Call or play a game. Not both.
