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Nissan and Microsoft Create Videogame Car
pnewhook writes "The Register reports that Microsoft and Nissan have created the first integrated gaming system within a vehicle. Not just in the vehicle, but the vehicle becomes part of the gaming system. From the article: "Conceived by Nissan Design America Inc. (NDA) and equipped with the Xbox 360 next-generation video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the Nissan URGE concept car allows drivers (while parked) to play 'Project Gotham Racing 3' using the car's own steering wheel, gas pedal and brake pedal while viewing the game on a flip-down seven-inch LCD screen," Nissan and Microsoft said in a statement."
Now I can finally make a fool of myself in public by playing a driving game when I should be speaking to the police officer knocking on the window!
Don't worry: cops will still be more worried about you talking on your cell phone while driving. Quick game of GTA anyone?
hi mom!
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Except for now, it's still in the 'concept stage' (meaning I have to imagine I am playing GTA under Linux). A few more tweaks, and I'll have it.
What happens to reindeer the day after Christmas
I mean come on, Nissan and xBox 360? This will never fly with the 16-30yr old Asian male demographic. //end sarc()
Sure! Just drive at 100mph head on into a blue wall!
Now you know how a PC running Windows 98 feels.
"Who says nothing is impossible? Some people do it every day!" - Alfred E. Neuman
Then what do you suggest, that someone mod the system to allow controlling both at the same time? That's as much the fault of MS as the OP's PlayStation in his car was the fault of Sony.
Don't naysay for the sake of saying nay. This system is as infallible as, say, a lightswitch. There's no way a bulb can be both off and on at the same time. (And nobody say Schroedinger. A bulb's too big for quantum effects to really take place.)
"Nissan conducted an Internet survey of 2,000 echo boomers, a majority of which said technology and gaming are among the most important attributes in their first car," said Bruce Campbell, vice president of design at Nissan Design America.
Holy crap! Bruce Cambell is the vice president of design at Nissan TOO!?!?! This is my BOOMSTICK!, indeed!
hi mom!
The safety feature is that this is a drive-by-wire system
[blink, read again, funny feeling in stomach, then do utmost to quench a severe gag reflex...]
Drive by wire...steering wheel, gas AND brake...controlled by an Xbox 360??
Hell knows I want to be outside a 100 mile radius when a beast like that is in motion on a f*ing road. Serious!
This must be a safety engineer's nightmare come true.
The Hacker's Guide To The Kernel: Don't panic()!
Now it might just be me, but when I'm driving I barely have the attention to drink my coffee, talk on the cellphone and shave in the rearview mirror.
I'm not sure I could devote proper attention to PGR3.
Of course, you never know until you try.
"Kittens give Morbo gas!"
"The only way you might be able to play while the car was in motion is if someone was pushing the car from behind."
:).
Its a Nissan, it is expected to be pushed from behind
You are all a bunch of idots.
Well, presumably you could leave the engine on while playing and the battery won't run out, ever! (as long as you have gas that is, but that stuff is cheap these days, right?)
That is called Darwinism.
- d
So, now I can get a blue screen of death while stuck in traffic on the 405
Even if your car won't move, you probably won't notice for a few hours.
Tweet, tweet.
Realizing I was more than likely going to cause an accident I took a moment to recompose myself for the real world and went on my merry way. But for a second there I was definitely a danger to myself and others.
"Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home" - Cicero
Oh no, its coming true.
If Microsoft made cars:
1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to
buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason,
and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause
your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would
have to reinstall the engine.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought
"Car95" or "CarNT." But then you would have to buy more seats.
6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable,
five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run
on five per cent of the roads.
7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be
replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
10. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out
and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the
door handle, turned the key, and grab hold of the radio antenna.
11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of
Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they
neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option
would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or
more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the
Justice Department.
12. Everytime GM introduced a new model car buyers would have to learn
how to drive all over again because none of the controls would
operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine.
Sure! Just drive at 100mph head on into a blue wall!
Hey, not an issue. With that 1 Kilowatt power supply installed, we all know what happens when you hit 88.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
The engine stalls unless you hang the battery from the hood with string.
Nintendo and Acme Sex Toys have scheduled a press conference for tomorrow, but are keeping hush-hush about their joint hardware/gaming venture, except to confirm that it would likely be rated "A" (for adults only).
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blue screen on the dashboard!
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The goal is to make a split second decision on how to t-bone someone. So I play for many hours, and on the drive home I almost make a decision to drive into this guy backing out of his driveway. Threeeeee-Sixtay!
God spoke to me.
eom
The Luddites were ahead of their time.
Now you can play Burnout 3 in your car AND on the road simultaneously. A lifelong desire fullfilled.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
The safety feature is that this is a drive-by-wire system,
The safety feature is that this is an Xbox 360: there isn't enough juice to both play the system and power the car.
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Could you get a DUI for playing video games in your car while drunk?
Gas break honk. Gas break honk. Honk honk punch. Gas gas gas.
-HS