Re:Tesla Software Version 10.0
by Ambroos on Thursday September 26, 2019 @07:17PM
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Well, I would hope the engineers working on Netflix and Caraoke aren't the ones who are working on self-driving features. They seem like different enough things that they could be worked on simultaneously. Full self-driving is a long time away anyway, and while we wait for that, features like this help cope with not having full self-driving and differentiating the car in the market.
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Re:Tesla Software Version 10.0
by skywhopper on Thursday September 26, 2019 @07:55PM
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But they are spending money and time on the engineers who are adding those features to the car, and on testing and integrating those with the rest of the software. Is that the best way to be spending their money?
Re:Tesla Software Version 10.0
by londons_explore on Thursday September 26, 2019 @08:04PM
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Integrating that game was probably 'free', because I bet the game developer paid to have Tesla distribute their game as advertising. That's why you only get the first level.
Exactly. For example, it was announced during E3 that the the game developers (StudioMDHR) from Cuphead helped port it. Also: https://twitter.com/StudioMDHR/status/1177305158470029314
Since it opens up a whole new differentiation front, they'd be remiss not to. No one else has broad apps or consistent OTA updates.