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The World's Most Dangerous Driving Simulator
agent elevator writes: Lawrence Ulrich at IEEE Spectrum has an interview with the maker of a simulator for professional racers. The Motion Pro II from CXC Simulations costs racers $54,000 and up. It conveys amazingly fine sensations, including the feel of the car's tires wearing out or the car lightening as its fuel dwindles. It also has the kick to make you really feel a crash: "If you hit the wall in an Indy Car and don't take your hands off the wheel, you'll break your wrists. Our wheel is a one-to-one replication of that, but we don't turn it up that high. It's the first time we've been able to replicate racing forces so high that it introduces liability questions."
Sure, it's a damn fine simulator, but nothing that a top F1 team haven't used before.
And $54,000? That's pocket change for someone disputing a FIA world championship.
The test pilot blender is almost complete, I see.
This is like disabling the safety protocols on the holodeck.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
My (5 story) building houses several commercial aviation sims, everything from MD-88s to 777s, and supposedly (I have only been here about 3 months) if you take them into a stall or crash it can shake the entire building. In fact my coworker that sits across from me jsut today paused for a second and said that it sounded like someone crashed a sim, and they are 2 floors below us.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil