Mom's Minute

 Source of news:  Shane McGlaun, SlashGear, August 5, 2011

 Have you ever played a "sit down" arcade video driving game and wondered how it would feel to actually drive the car?  Well, wonder no more.   According to the author of the news article titled, "OutRun Arcade Game Actually Drives on the Road," some researchers at the University of California at Irvine have done just that.

The research project -- concept car (pictured), began as a sort of  informatics system to help the disabled drive and do other things, but evolved into a video game you can drive.

The engineers used an old OutRun sit down model arcade game and mounted the game to a chassis that can actually move down the road.  You sit behind  the video screen, and when you are on the road, you steer the car looking at the screen instead of what is really in front of you.

I researched another source and found out this concept car has a maximum speed of about 13 miles per hour.

 Ms. H's take:  Maybe if the OutRun video game car was in an enclosed area,  I may give the car only a very slight nod of approval. In my opinion, looking at the game screen instead of your actual surroundings is not the safest way to drive a car, even if it is a video game.

By the way, did you figure out that my headline for this news article was really  "Braking News?"  

On a positive note, I applaud the ingenuity of those who developed the OutRun concept car video game that you can actually drive.

But I have to ask -- What's next?  An airplane video game that you can actually fly?

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Ms. H

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