How do you create a competitive driving game with only one car? Bernhard Handler’s Roadeo offers a simple and elegant solution. Player one drives the car, and player two steers the road.
German engineers have rigged up a Volkswagen Passat so it manoeuvres using only the driver’s mental directions. This technology could lead to a new age in which people actually use their brains while driving.
Every gamer who’s ever lapped a track in Forza or Gran Turismo has wondered how the real track would compare. Driver Brian Maerske got the chance to compare the games to a live run on the world’s toughest racetrack. [Jalopnik]
When a semi-truck carrying 30 metric tons of sand jackknifed through the concrete barrier into oncoming traffic on Ontario’s Highway 401 Friday morning, driver Matthew Krizsan narrowly escaped what might have been a fatal accident.
The only thing I can imagine that would be more exciting than racing a Ferrari F2007 at high speeds, is pretending to drive a Ferrari F2007 at high speeds while being swung about by a giant robot arm.
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It’s awesome enough that Rooster Teeth would rig up a Ford with a third-person camera, to attempt to drive like one does in a video game. What really makes this video shine are the Yakuza extras karate-kicking the test subjects.
EA’s casual instalment of the Need for Speed franchise is coming to the Wii next month, and we’ve got a first look at the colourful car lineup for Need for Speed: Nitro.