Safety concern: Tesla drivers can now play video games in moving cars

The automaker added the games in an over-the-air software update that was sent to most of its cars this summer

Not long after buying a Tesla Model 3 this summer, Vince Patton saw a YouTube clip highlighting a feature that took him by surprise: Three video games that can be played on the large touch screen mounted in front of the dashboard — while driving down the road. “I thought surely that can’t be right,” Patton, a retiree in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

But in a parking lot, he gave it a try, and he was able to play a solitaire game on the Model 3 while in motion. “I only did it for like five seconds and then turned it off,”