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Here's something I found on Auto-ASCII...  I want one!  :reallymad:


Honda unveils real-life driving simulator
[May 23, 2001]  

If you thought Sony's GT3 driving game was amazing, get a load of this. There is a must see if you're going to this year's Automobile Technology Exhibition: people and cars 2001 at the Pacifico Yokohama. On display until June 25 is Honda's latest hi-tech driving simulator which the company is using to instruct learner drivers.

While word of this new technology first hit the newspapers in mid-April, the simulator's formal launch will not be until June 18. Due to its hi-tech and hi-cost nature, Honda only have a couple of prototypes in existence in Japan so finding it on the site could be difficult. Fitted to Honda's Advanced Safety Vehicle (ASV) located outside the actual site proper, visitors must look carefully to experience its superb graphics.

Employing state of the art computer graphics which process 1,500,000 polygon per second and 30 to 60 frames per second, real-life driving motion is reproduced thanks to a 6-axis motion-base which mimics the actual feel of cornering and braking. One commentator said however that the Playstation GT3's force-feedback steering wheel mimics reality more closely.

Journalists who test drove the unit commented that its realism is second to none and that it feels just like a real car, and that when you collide with other vehicles, the impact and sound reproduction might be too real for people with weak hearts.

For those wanting to try the simulator, you will have to line up for tickets. Only six people per hour can be accommodated, so getting in the queue as soon as possible is highly recommended.  

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hey the pics dont work.

I know what would make that simulator even better.
Putting GT3 in there will make reality and simulation smooth together and well... The player will be emersed and relationships will crumble as everyones girlfriend will be fed up of the endless roaring of the cars in the HONDA simulation.
 
Man, I know.  Can you imaging playing GT3 in that thing...?  :eek:

(The pictures should be fixed now)
 
BTW, I didn't see this thread before...that simulator is awsome!

I wish my school had simulators like that for driver's ed...we don't have cars(unless you take the summer course and pay over $200), and the simulators we got are basicly a 70's american car drivers side area...it's really just a seat, shifter, handbrake, wheel, pedals, and the other controls like in open...there's 20 some-odd of these ancient things in a room facing a projection screen, and they are hooked up with this also ancient PC system that my instructor controlls which simulator works and crap...the speedos in the simulators do work, but they are the moving needle kind, you know like where it slides from 0 horizontally...

I don't know how anyone cound learn anything from these crappy things...

I wouldn't mind having that Honda simulator...I'd find a Mazda one first though :)
 
ours is optional..and we are the last Parkway highschool(out of 4) to have it, the rest were cancelled...our neighboring districts have REAL cars but ohh you know Parkway can't have REAL cars, no way, we spend money on paving perfectly fine parking lots, redesigning fine entrances, and other useless stuff while our air conditioners break frequently from being put on max for days on end while our classes are 55 degrees one day, and after it breaks(which takes a week at least to fix)the same rooms are 90 degrees. So what do they do? Replace parts only. They need to just replace all of the units at 1 time but hell if they ever do that!

Sorry for the rant...
 
Part of the driving experience is making people dive out of the way...I don't do that but it would be fun...
 
I remember about 10 years or so ago, Mercedes Benz had a similar simulator, except theirs was a full W124 cabin mounted inside a dome thing on hydraulic legs. I remember reading a few magazine articles on it, they would sit three journos in the car (one driving), and the technical guy would sit in the back and screw around with the controls, like changing the surface from tarmac to ice, that sort of stuff.

Apparently the accidents were terrifyingly realistic.
 
Err guys I don't have Carmagedon...I don't really have any PC games except LFS...
 
The driving simulators at my old school were awful.
They would tell you to speed up and slow down at the same time. :thatsodd:

They would also give you a grade... the highest i remember was around a 60. :lol:
 
Mummy, can you buy me one for Christmas? :p

Got a coupla grand layin' around gettin' dirty? Perhaps if we all pool our money me might only have to save up another two grand . . . :shakehead:
 

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