Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently had a breakdown on Twitter, but there are still lots of good things worth gawking at, like his recent announcement of a possible feature coming to his line of EVs.
Musk said there's a huge possibility for video conferencing to arrive in Teslas. He replied to a fan that it is "definitely a future feature," although we're not sure how that'll work. It doesn't seem like a good idea to join a video conference while the car is moving, or at least not until self-driving technology peaks and is ready to handle all road conditions without the supervision of a human driver.
Tesla vehicles do have huge screens. In Model 3, most of the car's functions can be controlled using its 15-inch touchscreen mounted on the dash between the passenger seat and the driver. Not a lot of people know but the car actually has an in-cabin cam aimed at the passenger cabin and driver. According to Musk, the cam should serve well as a security measure to prevent passengers from trashing your Tesla when operated as a robo-taxi.
What's a robo-taxi, you ask? It's one of Musk's visions: a driverless taxi service that was supposed to launch this year. He announced it last year, of course, not expecting a pandemic would strike the world in 2020.
But if you piece it together, Teslas have got all the features to make video conferencing possible: a large screen and a camera, plus the ability to give vocal commands to your EV. It makes perfect sense.
Or maybe all of those are set up so Tesla owners can karaoke to their hearts' content, which Tesla already supports. How or when this feature might appear isn't important. Details like whether it will be active even while someone is driving are too technical.
Talking about entertainment features, Tesla EVs allow Netflix streaming and video games when the vehicle is parked. Video conferencing could work while the car is at rest, Musk and his team of engineers could come up with a way to drive and video conference at the same time. After all, he already suggested creating a game like a complex version of Pac-Man or Mario Kart that interacts virtually with reality. In other words, it could be played while driving on roads.
In other news, the SpaceX CEO just had a baby boy with singer Grimes on Monday. They named the child X Æ A-12, which he and his girlfriend explained the meaning on Twitter.
We're not sure how it's read though, but it turns out the name cannot be registered in California.
