Simulators
similar to the one recently unveiled to the world by Toyota aren't all that
uncommon, but this 4.5-meter high pod is "the first to move laterally and has the longest range of 35-meters front to back and 20-meters from right to left." Reportedly, the automaker plans to use its newest toy to "analyze driving characteristics under various conditions such as
drunkenness and drowsiness" and subsequently decide what new safety features should be added to its fleet of motorcars. More specifically, the device enables researchers to "conduct driving tests that would be too dangerous to perform in the real world or that require specific driving conditions," and we're pretty sure the 360-degree concave video screen is quite the draw, too. Unfortunately, we have little faith that you'll ever see a tamed version of this here simulator at your local arcade, but one can hope, we suppose.
[Via
Yahoo / Reuters, image courtesy of
Tech.co.uk]
posted Nov 26th 2007 9:03AM
Sign me up!
That's great! I'd like to volunteer to get paid to drink and drive. I love it!
Drinking and driving: The video game. Too much fun.
Get paid to volunteer? How does that work?
I call playing on it first!
No you don't...
Shotgun!
Does it play Doom?
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please let this comment die...
I'm so sick of seeing it in every article.
I had to do it once! :D
And by doing it once, you, sir, are now part of the problem. :p
I fail.
Utter fail.
Any one remember Carmageddon?
Oh hell yeah.
BEST
GAME
EVER
Now if Toyota can get this rigged up with Carmageddon then I would soooooo be playing the Lottery to get one
Reminds me of the NASA vertical simulator in terms of scale.
Looks like some sort of training facility for Halo 3!
it reminds me more of a level in Portal
the car is a lie
the car is a lie
the car is a lie
24hour job here I come!
I can't wait until this shows up at my local Aladdin's Castle.
What? Arcades are dead? When?
Awww...
I for one welcome our drunk driving car simulating Toyota overlords.
Bleh. They should add "phone while driving" to the simulation too. More of those idiots than the drunk ones on the street.