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A New Tesla Safety Concern: Drivers Can Play Video Games in Moving Cars



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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,” Mr. Patton, a retiree in Lake Oswego, Ore.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,” he said. “I’m astonished. To me, it just seems inherently dangerous.”The automaker added the games in an over-the-air software update …

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