Tesla Arcade has been around since mid-2019, offering popular games — like “Beach Buggy Racing 2” and “Cuphead” — to pass the time while the car is charging or otherwise parked. When Tesla Arcade was initially launched, there were safety restrictions in place to ensure that any game played within a Tesla system could only be played if the car was in park. Somewhere along the way, however, this was no longer the case.
At the end of 2021, roughly 580,000 Tesla cars and SUVs fell under a preliminary safety investigation by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). This wasn’t even prompted by a crash or another incident, thankfully, but due to a complaint filed to the Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) in November 2021.
Through the investigation, it was revealed that Tesla introduced the Passenger Play feature with an update in December 2020. Passenger Play allowed games to be played while the car was moving, as long as the passenger pressed a button confirming that they were the one playing a game, and not the driver. Passenger Play was offered on the Model 3, Model S, Model X, and Model Y vehicles — which amounts to over half a million Tesla vehicles.
Shortly after the investigation was launched, the Passenger Play feature was removed from the 580,000 Tesla vehicles that had it. While it may be fun to play games as a Tesla passenger, the safety risks are too high — for both the people in the Tesla and everyone else on the road.
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