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Watch Le Mans From Inside Le Car
RhaLovely writes: "GM has set up a Web site to cover the Le Mans race. The interesting thing here is that they also fixed some video cameras and sensors on their cars (Corvettes and Cadillacs) so that people can follow the race on the site. You will be able to see the windshield view, the speed of the car, RPM of the engine, brake pressure, the location of the car on the circuit, the lateral acceleration on the pilot (not so easy to be a pilot) and during the night they'll use some infrared captors."
Now, what *would* be helpful is for certain practical info to be made available in realtime. What lap is being run? What was the top speed of the last lap? What are the positions of the drivers? If this kind of info was typically available on the net, I'd probably watch races on the tv along with following it on the net.
Nascar provides all the information in your wishlist and then some. I do exactly what you describe on Sundays when football isn't on. Check out Nascar Online while a race is going on.
It is difficult for me to see this one as having any value. At 100 mi/hr (160 km/hr), things happen rather quickly. The vehicle moves at nearly 150ft/sec or 50m/sec. In-car cam views across the net may be technically interesting, but I don't see this being the way to watch a race in the future. (The idea of engine status monitoring over the net is funny at best.)
Now, what *would* be helpful is for certain practical info to be made available in realtime. What lap is being run? What was the top speed of the last lap? What are the positions of the drivers? If this kind of info was typically available on the net, I'd probably watch races on the tv along with following it on the net.
Graham
Graham
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Heck, I'd watch that if I could see readouts of:
1) The number of decals, T-shirts, etc. of that particular driver on sale at Wal Mart, Tennessean strip mall racin' memorabilia shops, etc.
2) The inebriation level of the audience.
3) How many teeth the average audience member has.
4) Amount of advertising revenue the driver has at that moment from snack foods, breakfast dishes at Denny's, etc
5) The number of "Stone Cold Steve Austin" shirts in the audience
6) Number of cases of "new, NASA grade surfractant synthetic polyamorous engine lubricant performance engine oil" audience members are considering buying even though audience members have on average 2 cars, one of which is held together with duct tape and Bondo and the other of which is on blocks in front of the trailer
7) Number of people that actually have the revelation that you're awarding someone a trophy for DRIVING IN A CIRCLE REAL FAST.
8) Number of people incensed at some weird ending (they have to pace lap the last three laps or something cause Jeff Gordon made someone clip him and he always does that, I hate Jeff Gordon yee haw ah seckind that, pass the Jack Danyils, etc)
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