Tesla's attempt to create a strange case for a PC ever conceived — that is, to build an entire car around a computer - is now dead. As it stands, Model X and S Teslas no longer come with Steam integration and are basically useless. Unless you want to drive them from one place to another instead of playing video games, I guess.

The Steam integration of this car, launched in 2022-12, allowed drivers to play the game for a while while they were actually driving, but a U.S. government investigation into that clear nonsense has disabled this feature unless they were parked or charged. Still, the idea of a car packed with a straight-up gaming PC is a kind of fun, speculative futurist add-on to which Tesla has solidified its overall picture.

As discovered by Vgc, buyers of Model X and Model S received the following message: "Tesla is updating the Model X gaming computer and your car is no longer able to play Steam games. All other entertainment and app features are not affected.

It is not currently believed that owners who bought these models before the change will be affected, but according to the r/teslamotors subreddit, those who are still waiting for delivery will be affected by the new car's

, as a handful of commenters in subsequent threads have pointed out, this is not much of a shock: " You're either at home with a real gaming computer or somewhere else where you do other things. I really see it as useful only if you had to wait for hours in your car for some reason". Another commenter adds, "They probably realized it was a car."

Since we're still miles away from the car, we can move ourselves without requiring the driver's attention in an emergency, most uses for built—in PCs have become a niche, to say the least - and if you want to play games in the car while waiting to pick up a child from school, you can use a laptop or a laptop. You just need to use a deck or steam deck. That's a lot of money to put into a feature with an existing, sensible option to buy Tesla on a gaming PC that everyone with moolah probably already has.

We also know that the car can physically do it, as well as the "non-patchy" vulnerability of the AMD chip that allowed TESLA users to jailbreak their cars last year and access all the paywalled features of these models, but we can't do that until we flush the credit card with Musk. The best-to-normal way for cars to work.