This Nissan Concept Car Brakes for Video Games

[apoppin]

i guess Video is the place for this . . . kinda weird . . . kinda cool

From the LA Times

This Nissan Concept Car Brakes for Video Games

Nissan Motor Co. next month will unveil at Detroit's auto show a concept sports car, called the Urge, equipped with Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 video game system.

When the car is parked, the steering wheel, gas and brake pedals and a 7-inch liquid crystal display screen that drops down from the rearview mirror turn it into a personal video arcade so the driver can play the "Project Gotham Racing 3" game.

The car-racing game, which works only when the Urge is stationary, allows players to virtually speed through the streets of London, Tokyo, Las Vegas and New York and to compete on a German test track.

Nissan designer Bruce Campbell said the car was developed after conducting an Internet survey asking young auto and gaming enthusiasts the kinds of features they would want in their ideal car.

Most of the nearly 2,000 respondents were young males who overwhelmingly wanted "a small, fun-to-drive sports car [with] the technology products they use on a daily basis," said Campbell, vice president of design at Nissan's advanced research and design center in La Jolla

No Toyota Flames please.
:roll:

 

[Unkno]

yea it's a great concept since you can use the car's steering wheels and pedals to play the game

 

[BlacKJesuS]

being 6'4....wonder how i can drive this car....w/o playing a video game.......crap 2seater

 

[duragezic]

So the wheels get reefed back and forth while sitting on the pavement? Wouldn't that be pretty bad for the power steering after a bit of doing that?

 

[5150Joker]

Originally posted by: duragezic
So the wheels get reefed back and forth while sitting on the pavement? Wouldn't that be pretty bad for the power steering after a bit of doing that?

Plus imagine how stupid someone inside a car doing that would look :laugh:

 

[mindwreck]

thats pretty cool geek wise, but you'd looked retarded to people outside. Hopefully the steering somehow detaches from the wheel..

 

[otispunkmeyer]

lol............i can see it now

gridlocked traffice and theres all these people with furious looks on their faces wrenching their steering wheels left and right.

just imagine if you could do wireless mulitplayer with other Nissan Urges in the traffic jam

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: duragezic
So the wheels get reefed back and forth while sitting on the pavement? Wouldn't that be pretty bad for the power steering after a bit of doing that?

I would assume they are smart enough to think about that. I am sure the video game over-rides the actual steering and the wheels stay in 1 place... Otherwise yes that would be totally dumb!

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: 5150Joker

Originally posted by: duragezic
So the wheels get reefed back and forth while sitting on the pavement? Wouldn't that be pretty bad for the power steering after a bit of doing that?

Plus imagine how stupid someone inside a car doing that would look :laugh:

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
lol............i can see it now

gridlocked traffice and theres all these people with furious looks on their faces wrenching their steering wheels left and right.

just imagine if you could do wireless mulitplayer with other Nissan Urges in the traffic jam

i believe the wheels lock, since you must be in Park to play.

Personally, i think a widescreen LCD - or even multiple screens - would be much nicer than that 7" LCD . . . i think this is the "future". . . . at least "gridlock" won't be so bad.
:Q

 

[DAPUNISHER]

On a optimistic note: Perhaps it'll help with road rage, drivers can just pull over and vent by fragging it up instead of exchanging real gunfire. Yeah, and I'm a chinese jet pilot.