{"id":9946,"date":"2020-08-11T20:58:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T20:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=9946"},"modified":"2020-08-11T20:58:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T20:58:30","slug":"tesla-touchscreen-deemed-distracting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/tesla-touchscreen-deemed-distracting\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla touchscreen deemed \u201cdistracting\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla\u2019s touchscreen car controls should be treated as a distracting electronic device, according to a German court.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-53666222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a> reports that a driver was left facing a road ban after being involved in a crash in the rain.<\/p>\n<p>The Tesla vehicle he was driving automatically started its wipers &#8211; but manually controlling the speed was done through the large central touchscreen, rather than a lever on the steering wheel.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was punished under the same rules as using a phone while driving.<\/p>\n<p>The court decided that the Tesla\u2019s built-in touchscreen was an electronic device under the law designed to combat mobile phone use, which also mentioned touchscreens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla\u2019s touchscreen car controls should be treated as a distracting electronic device, according to a German court. BBC News reports that a driver was left facing a road ban after being involved in a crash in the rain. The Tesla vehicle he was driving automatically started its wipers &#8211; but manually controlling the speed was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":9947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}