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Driver's-Seat Driving Game Controller
RichardX writes "The folks at Real Virtual Car have taken an old car, hooked up a projector to the windscreen, USB on the steering and pedals, connected it all up to a PC and ended up with what may be the single greatest homemade games controller ever." Even a force-feedback steering wheel!
"Look, a cyclist! 30 points!"
"No, over there! On crutches! 100 points!"
A windshield might be more realistic, and safer to boot!
Windshield sounds so much better, like it is some kind of protective device that makes you invincible, allowing you to run over pedestrians with gleeful abandon. Windscreen on the other hand sounds like something that could barely keep flies out of your automobile.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Any real car should be able to do 70 MPH in 2nd gear...
lol just put a fan on the hood for effect haha...
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If that "5V/12V variable pulse speed gauge" doesn't cut it, I don't know what will.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
If my kids hear about this, I'm screwed!
I'm not a troll, but I play one on Slashdot.
...until they capture the *real* essence of driving.
Sucking exhaust fumes from a sight-blocking SUV. *That* is what I'm talking about.
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"Equal opportunity swindling - *that* is the true test of a sustainable democracy."
Gentlemen, you may now start the jokes about crashing a car that doesn't even run.
"Ad infinitem et ultra!" - Buzz Lightyear
I saw Disney movie when I was a kid where there was a kid from the day he was born had nothing on his mind but cars. They had this one scene where he's behind the wheel of a vehicle desk in a classroom learning how to drive while watching a driving movie (the kid managed to crash his vehicle desk -- don't ask me how). I thought that was the coolest thing ever (this was long before computers became available for the home).
So when I got to high school, I was expecting the same thing. Instead, they handed me a booklet to study and told me that my parents would teach me how to drive. WTF! My Dad had a one-ton truck and he would not teach how to drive that. So I never did learn how to drive as a teenager. I was so bitter...
All cars have game controllers -- they're called steering wheels, brakes, and accelerators. With the appropriate combination of l33t combo moves, you can pretty much win the following games on your morning commute (in Atlanta):
- Gran Turismo: I-285 Edition
- Need For Speed: GA400 Gridlock
- Project Middle Finger Racing
- Grand Theft Auto: Midtown Street Parking Edition
In Ohio, you have a car game unavailable in most parts of the country (although LA just introduced it, from what I hear):
- Freeway Sniper Spy Hunter
IronChefMorimoto
... sounds almost as much as an oxymoron to me as "Microsoft Works" does.
:%s/Open Source/Free Software/g
YTARY!
Pipe in some exhaust fumes from your lawn mower and you've got full sensory experience.
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Not that I agree, but it seems like everyone here makes their decisions according to the laws of microeconomics rather than what they really want to do.
Not only that, but it seems everyone generalizes on the behavior of everyone else who posts here.
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
I drive and she plays with my joystick.