Velocitation

[SuperShouden]

EDIT:Better Definintion from Yahoo Answers:

Velocitation occurs when you unconsciously go too fast on the freeway.
Velocitation is caused by long periods of high speed travel. The eyes become fatigued in the horizontal plane to images streaming through the windscreen. Velocitation can be noticed when entering built-up areas after long periods of country driving. The speed drop from 100 km/hr to 60 km/hr makes the driver think the car is going much slower (maybe walking pace). The eyes can no longer judge horizontal velocity correctly and as such cannot judge safe following distances. The only remedy is to stop the images streaming through the windscreen, to do this stop and park for several minutes to allow the eyes to rest.

It is for this reason, a driver on the highway may catch up to you and then follow close behind making no attempt to pass. The driver subconsciously has found it very relaxing to stare at the rear of your vehicle rather than scan the road ahead. In this situation you are now essentially steering both cars.

Your safest option would be to slow gradually and force the other driver to pass. Also check that you are not lowering your concentration by staring aimlessly at the vehicle in front of you.

I have not felt any or very much Velocitation from ANY racing game as I do with GT5. I mean, you drive a Fiat 500 around the track and then hop into a Peugeot and you feel like your flying around the track. It's crazy, and really adds to the realism of the game. Great job PD 👍

 

[kitchenboy3]

Velocitation is the feeling of going faster or slower than you actually are. Like, when you come off the freeway it can feel like you're crawling around town simply because you were just going 70 and now you're not.

I have not felt any or very much Velocitation from ANY racing game as I do with GT5. I mean, you drive a Fiat 500 around the track and then hop into a Peugeot and you feel like your flying around the track. It's crazy, and really adds to the realism of the game. Great job PD 👍

So when it's the last hour at work and time starts dragging before I can go home and play GT5, is that velocitation too?

 

[Jay]

X1 causes issues like this, when you first start driving it you are amazed, after hours it fully becomes the norm. After I used the X1 I get in a Super GT car and I wondered why it was understeering so much until I watched the speed I was attempting to take corners at.

 

[SuperShouden]

lol. Nah. That's just stress. Velocitation is a driving thing. In fact, car reviewers usually take a day or so to review more than one car, just to 1. Avoid velocitation, and 2. Avoid comparing the car they're currently in with another car. This is one reason why Top Gear is just for fun. But, I mean, if a reviewer were to test, say, the Viper ACR, then they reviewed say the Subaru Impreza immediately afterwards, they might say the Subaru feels too slow and sluggish, but then they were just driving a car that holds the world record for American Production cars around both Nurburgring and Laguna Seca.

I mean, for the feel of a racing game to be accurate enough as to induce velocitation, is pretty awesome.

 

[iLex]

It is pretty impressive indeed. One of the reasons for the more extreme velocitation (nice word, didn't know it) might be the fact that the sense of speed has never been exaggerated in GT5.

 

[Jay]

lol. Nah. That's just stress.

Stress?

car reviewers usually take a day or so to review more than one car, just to 1. Avoid velocitation, and 2. Avoid comparing the car they're currently in with another car. This is one reason why Top Gear is just for fun. But, I mean, if a reviewer were to test, say, the Viper ACR, then they reviewed say the Subaru Impreza immediately afterwards, they might say the Subaru feels too slow and sluggish, but then they were just driving a car that holds the world record for American Production cars around both Nurburgring and Laguna Seca.

I mean, for the feel of a racing game to be accurate enough as to induce velocitation, is pretty awesome.

Yeah, when I try new car I always like to refresh my mind with a slow car first. Like in your example if I was driving a ACR I would go back to something slow (stock MX5 or something) and throw it around Tsukuba/Eiger for a while fooling around before getting in the Impreza for impressions.

The X1 to Super GT car is similar, normally a Super GT car feels fast but after the X1 it feels like I could keep up in a regular sports car.

 

[Ishie]

X1 causes issues like this, when you first start driving it you are amazed, after hours it fully becomes the norm. After I used the X1 I get in a Super GT car and I wondered why it was understeering so much until I watched the speed I was attempting to take corners at.

I agree. That thing is a rocketship 👍

 

[SuperShouden]

It is pretty impressive indeed. One of the reasons for the more extreme velocitation (nice word, didn't know it) might be the fact that the sense of speed has never been exaggerated in GT5.

Yeah. I've play FM 1 and 2 and the other GT games and this is really the first time I've experienced velocitation. Even with GT5P. Then again, when I did my laps in GT5P I went from slowest to fastest, a good technique if you're learning a track or want to get some fast lap times. It also cuts down on Velocitation.

 

[SlipZtrEm]

Oddly enough, I feel it in all racing games; which makes sense, since it's largely a mental thing. I feel cockpit view definitely exaggerates it though. That and going to the same narrow track (Green Hell) with a slow street car and then with a slicked race car 👍

Motor Trend, about a decade ago, had a four-car story that focused on this, and they coined it "Speed Blind". Lousy magazine, but that term has stuck with me all these years as an appropriate one!

 

[iLex]

15 days left to make 'velocitation' the GTP word of the year

 

[SuperShouden]

Oddly enough, I feel it in all racing games; which makes sense, since it's largely a mental thing. I feel cockpit view definitely exaggerates it though. That and going to the same narrow track (Green Hell) with a slow street car and then with a slicked race car 👍

Motor Trend, about a decade ago, had a four-car story that focused on this, and they coined it "Speed Blind". Lousy magazine, but that term has stuck with me all these years as an appropriate one!

Funny, I learned about Velocitation about a decade ago in Driver's Ed. So, Motor Trend wasn't very well informed since they made up their own term for it. Kinda like landing when Columbus landed in "America" and claimed it for England like it was a new land when there were already natives living here.

 

[Jay]

Kinda like landing when Columbus landed in "America" and claimed it for England like it was a new land when there were already natives living here.

England and many other nations did that everywhere (Australia included), including in Japan (Portuguese claimed it as theirs IIRC) even though the were trading with the Japanese people at the time.

Oops waaay off topic

"Speed Blind" Has a bit more of a magazine ring to it.