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Driver's-Seat Driving Game Controller

Posted by timothy on from the well-that-seems-perfectly-reasonable dept.

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!

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  1. Heh by CypherXero · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Screw that, drive a REAL car. There's nothing like a cool, crisp day, with the wind blowing in your hair, as you shift to 5th gear, going over 70 MPH.

  2. Re:Neat, but... by Skye16 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So? Don't you ever just want to MAKE something with your own two hands? That's what drives people like this. The whole "do it yourself" thing. It doesn't matter how much it costs. What matters is that you're enjoying doing it.

  3. Sound options by _Hiro_ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With an entire chassis, why did they opt for just one speaker behind the driver?

    There are small, decent sounding, and (relative to the cost of the car shell) inexpensive 5.1 setups. And you'd be able to mount most of the speakers in the existing speaker mounts.

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  4. Driving Simulator as a teaching aid by RobertB-DC · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wouldn't your Driver's Ed teacher (aka the basketball coach) be much happier if he could verify your skills in one of these, rather than from the passenger seat with nothing but a second brake pedal between him and being pwnx0rd by a bridge abutment?

    It's not such a crazy idea... check out the Truck Driver Simulation Mobile Classroom. It's a full-sized full-motion multi-screen 18-wheeler simulator, designed to help train professional truck drivers. The unit -- which itself is housed in an 18-wheeler trailer -- claims to be "unlike any in the world," although the folks in the UK are trying to catch up.

    Myself, I'd like to see what it's really like to climb in the cab and say ... so we crashed the gate doing ninety-eight, I says let them truckers roll, 10-4, 'cause we got a mighty Convoy rockin' through the night...

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  5. Re:Neat, but... by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "They probably could've purchased any arcade racing game for cheaper..."

    He also could have just read a book instead. There, I was insightful to those who are disturbingly practical in life, mod me up.

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