A view of the dashboard in a brand new Tesla Mannequin S automotive. Latest updates embrace a 'Caraoke' music library out there via the middle cons
A view of the dashboard in a brand new Tesla Mannequin S automotive. Latest updates embrace a ‘Caraoke’ music library out there via the middle console, extra arcade video games, and linking to fashionable streaming leisure providers like Netflix, Hulu and Spotify.
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The typical automotive already has greater than 150 million traces of code, in line with a 2018 KPMG report, and a better proportion of software program will probably be dedicated to in-car leisure sooner or later.
Tesla all the time has been identified for placing “Easter eggs” — secret surprises discoverable by house owners — in its automobiles, similar to a perform that makes the automotive’s lights go into disco mode. However novelty apart, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is severe about in-car leisure. On the corporate’s most up-to-date earnings name, the Tesla CEO stated the aim is to create an infotainment system that gives “probably the most quantity of enjoyable you possibly can have in a automotive.”
Musk threw shade at different automotive corporations, too. “The aim for the infotainment system is to say what’s probably the most quantity of enjoyable you possibly can have in a automotive. I do not suppose different automotive corporations actually give it some thought that manner,” he stated throughout Tesla’s current earnings name. “It isn’t just a few kind of transport utility machine with no soul and no character.”
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