The new date is Dec 23, 2021.
Two days after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration launched an investigation into the potentially dangerous "Passenger Play" function on some of the newer cars of the company, it was announced that the feature would be removed.
The feature that allowed the drivers of the car to play video games while moving has caused controversy.
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The passenger play feature is locked and unusable if the vehicle is moving, a NHTSA spokesman confirmed to Forbes on Thursday.
The update was sent to affected cars.
An estimated 580,000 vehicles from the model years of Model 3, S, X, Y are included in the ongoing NHTSA probe.
Forbes requested a comment from the company.
The NHTSA said in a statement to Forbes that it was changing the function of the passenger play feature after the opening of a preliminary evaluation. When the vehicle is in motion,Passenger Play will be locked and unusable.
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The New York Times reported two weeks ago that a software update this summer allowed some games to be played while the car is moving. The three games that were played while the car was moving were confirmed by The Verge. The NHTSA launched a formal investigation into the issue Tuesday after it said it was discussing the feature with the car maker.
The NHTSA launched an investigation in August into the safety of the autopilot feature in the cars. Critics question whether the technology is oversold as full autonomously driving, encouraging drivers to misuse it, as a probe looked into 11 traffic accidents involvingTesla vehicles.
There are games on the screens in moving cars.
There are 580,000 vehicles under investigation.
