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- Tesla's prided itself
in making its cars fun.

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You have fart mode,
you have Rainbow Road,

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there's even Atari games
in the center console.

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But recently, Tesla
kicked it up a notch

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with a new game,
Beach Buggy Racing 2,

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and we're going to try it
out here in a parking garage

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in downtown San Francisco.

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Now you could use the on-screen
controls for the game,

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but, I mean, that's
kind of lame,

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especially when you think about
the fact that you can use,

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well, this AS your controller--
the steering wheel.

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You can actually control
the little buggy like this.

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And to slow it down,
you just use the brakes.

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So you're turning and braking,
and turning and braking,

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and hopefully winning races.

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Now to get to the
games, previously

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you had to go into the car
menu, and it was an Easter egg.

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Well, Tesla is rolling out
an update starting this week

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that puts it right here.

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You have the arcade
games, you have

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a toy box for all your
little Easter eggs,

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and to play games, bam.

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Now as you can see, once
you have the game loaded up,

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it's the same color
as, well, your car.

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If you had a red
Tesla, it would be red,

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if you had a blue
Tesla, it would be blue,

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if you had a white
Tesla, it would be white.

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And there are 13 characters
that are part of the game,

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but there's the 14th, which
is special only in a Tesla,

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and that is Starman.

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The space suit that Elon
shot, well out in the space.

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But as someone who's done a road
trip in a Tesla, and, you know,

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you have to stop, and
you have to charge,

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a lot of times I spent my
free time on Twitter, which

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I think we can all
agree is probably

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a bad way to spend your time.

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This, on the other hand, I
think this would actually--

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oh dear, all that confusion,
now I went the wrong way.

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Now if you look up
above the screen,

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it's telling me how I'm
driving incorrectly.

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It's telling me too much
left, too much right,

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all right set the brakes.

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And you're not using the
accelerator on this game,

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because you know,
safety, instead

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you're just using the brake.

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And I probably should
use the brake more.

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This car in this game has
the handling of my dad's

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late 70s Dodge Aspen.

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So I played the one
player version, now I'm

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going to play two players with
Ralf Knoesel from Vector Unit,

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and I guarantee he is going
to beat me at every race.

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It's almost like I can
see into the future,

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because I can't see
around these corners

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because I keep
running into walls.

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Now what's interesting
about this,

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is that while the
Tesla is drive by wire,

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while I'm training
this steering wheel,

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it is actually
turning the tires.

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Now this game is
available for consoles,

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it's available for mobile,
and for this version of it,

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it uses--

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5th place.

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There's constant
acceleration, that's why

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you're only using the brakes.

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It's also constant acceleration
on the mobile game,

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so it's not too far from
what is already out there.

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And while they're
reporting this,

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it only took-- it didn't
take that long, a few days,

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and it helps that Tesla's
platform is built around Linux.

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And so they had it ported
to things similar to Linux

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before that.

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As someone who spends a lot
of time sitting in cars,

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and a lot of times and in
cars while they're charging,

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I do commend Tesla for
doing something different.

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Being able to play this game is
way better than what I usually

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do when I'm sitting waiting
for a car to charge,

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and that's Twitter, and
that's just bad news.

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