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Elon Musk says Tesla will soon be able to stream YouTube and Netflix

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Don’t text and drive. Though I fear that phrase may soon change to don’t stream and drive as Elon Musk has revealed that Tesla cars will soon have the ability to stream content from Netflix and YouTube. Yeah, before those are available on Nintendo’s Switch.

Tesla has already found quite a lot of innovative ideas for their in-car displays including announcing games that can be played on them with Musk revealed in a new tweet that apps will be rolled soon that will allow people to stream YouTube and Netflix from the comfort of their cars, with the driver able to have full control through their steering wheel.

While entertainment systems are nothing new to cars, typically they have not included streaming of live internet content and also traditionally been reserve to of additional displays mounted in the backseat for kids and passengers. Having this type of content on display, visible to the driver is perhaps a little distracting and something which I can easily see causing problems in the future. Especially games that are more interactive in nature.

Ultimately, Musk’s long term goal is in self-driving cars in which case, this form of entertainment hub makes perfect sense but until all of that happens, I can see this type of content getting in the way of drivers who are spending more time in traffic trying to catch up on their binge-watching than actual driving. This is great for the family who wants to get entertained while on the move, but with the display still visible to the driver, I can’t see it working just yet.

Musk did not reveal a timeline for this feature yet, though we will probably start hearing more details on these soon. Or not, as the regulators step in and prevent this from happening due to road accident concerns.

Last Updated: July 29, 2019

16 Comments

  1. Pariah

    July 29, 2019 at 15:57

    “when car is stopped”. I think that’s a pretty key thing in that tweet tbh. As long as that’s the case, go for it.

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  2. Llama In The Rift

    July 29, 2019 at 16:35

    “This is great for the family who wants to get entertained while on the move, but with the display still visible to the driver, I can’t see it working just yet”

    While people are straight up making Porno’s in those cars…..Yeah….not on this planet.

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  3. Guz

    July 29, 2019 at 16:35

    Musk is a BOSS, say what you want about him, he is always pushing boundaries , trying to make things better, the world needs more people like him

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    • Pariah

      July 29, 2019 at 16:35

      He employs people, so obviously he’s a boss…

      Reply

  4. Pariah

    July 29, 2019 at 15:57

    “when car is stopped”. I think that’s a pretty key thing in that tweet tbh. As long as that’s the case, go for it.

    Reply

    • Admiral Chief Umbra

      July 29, 2019 at 16:22

      Pink butterfly effect?

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      • Pariah

        July 29, 2019 at 16:22

        Just a cool painting of a pink butterfly I found on the internet.

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    • HvR

      July 29, 2019 at 16:35

      They will defnitely put it in a safety because eveytime anything bad happens in connection with a Tesla it makes world headlines.

      Ford starts spontaniously combusting, it will make the news after 100th car burst into flames and the 10th person is killed.
      Bus with 40 orphans looses a wheel and every orpahn is killed, nah nobody cares. Maybe in the local newspaper
      One drunk granny drives in front of Tesla with her mobility scooter and sprains her ankle, World headlines

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      • Pariah

        July 29, 2019 at 16:35

        That’s really the problem with being the first. Like, buses crash a lot. People die in many of them. It’s not really NEWs. It’s just run-of-the-mills at this point. But that granny was the first one to be hit by a Tesla. And with people already fearing it, makes for easy media attention, hits, and therefore revenue.

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        • HvR

          July 29, 2019 at 16:47

          Found it funny, every main news outlet reported about 2 old Teslas that caught fire in parking lots due to battery issue on pretty much limited to small subset of vehicles. And Tesla was already with a recal and retrifit,

          Same week Audi recalls all 1000 E-trons a WEEK after they launched the vehicle because their battery tech is basically an incendiary device on a timer (no venting holes on their battery packs. Barely a peep.

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        • HvR

          July 29, 2019 at 16:47

          Found it funny, every main news outlet reported about 2 old Teslas that caught fire in parking lots due to battery issue on pretty much limited to small subset of vehicles. And Tesla was already with a recal and retrifit,

          Same week Audi recalls all 1000 E-trons a WEEK after they launched the vehicle because their battery tech is basically an incendiary device on a timer (no venting holes on their battery packs. Barely a peep.

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  5. HvR

    July 29, 2019 at 16:11

    Listen each week to the Our Ludicrous Future podcast about EV (basically just Tesla because the rest suck), space and tech.

    Has made me really want a Tesla, not because of the being electric or anything (well 2.3s 0 to 100 is also big selling point) but because it truly feels like the only car manufacturer that is in the 21st century tech wise.

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