Yesterday, I was just hammering a buddy over his buying a nice Jaguar. Why? He doesn’t have a driving license.
Reason for buying a Jaguar? To motivate himself to get a license.
Anyways, he was asking me if driving was really that simple, coz he feels kinda lost when sitting behind the steering. In the same breath, he was also telling me what a good driver he was, on his Sony PSP.
A funny thought came to me, what if we replaced all the driving controls in the car with console gaming controls? That’ll be wicked!
A quick surf around the web brought me to these mockups :
Interesting mod of the Wii controller?
Playstation controllers? Looks like some Starwars tie-fighter thingie..
Here’s much closer to what I was thinking about, except if you remove the steering altogether, possibly even the gear box and brakes and accelerator… just purely the PSP to move your ride.
OK maybe I’m asking for too much, something like this maybe more ‘practical’ :
But I’m not too sure about the usability of this one. Anyways, usability’s not really the point of this post 
Hmmm, too bad I couldn’t find any XBOX mods.
But check out this laptop mounted on steering I found :
Talk about geekonomics, these guys might really change the auto industry altogether.
Looks like the future of driving is about to arrive for us geeks?
Signing off from Bangkok.
p.s. See 9-years-old’s recount of the earthquake in my other blog and pray for China!
May 21st, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Chanced upon your blog.
needless to say,the content is great.Esp like your intro ;-).Congrats to whenever you inherit the earth.
Would driving be replaced by gameplay.I pray not!
—Sri