Rank: Professional Driver
Joined: 1/26/2010
Posts: 49
Technology's being created to make your driver seat vibrate when there's a car in your blind spots so you can be physically alerted without looking for a visual. It can even tell you where the vehicle is. Should help when on autopilot. Maybe this will help all those drivers who merge before looking!  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38147388/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/
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Rank: Professional Driver  Joined: 1/24/2010 Posts: 36
Thanks for posting that article! I'd be curious to test drive a vehicle with that installed to see what it feels like.
For some reason I get the sense that if I was in very crowded slow moving traffic (like a backup highway or crowded New York street) the seat would just be pushing on me constantly from all sides.
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Rank: Professional Driver  Joined: 2/23/2010 Posts: 46
I think for city driving it wouldn't be as helpful but if you do a lot of highway driving, especially at night, that might be good. I know I zone out when I have long drives.
What would be MORE helpful is for it to detect animals (or people) approaching the road and alert me of those. They tend to jump out at me more than other cars.
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Rank: Licensed Driver  Joined: 2/4/2010 Posts: 18
Technology intending to replace human awareness scares me. Technology is great, when it works. Some things just shouldn't be replaced with artificial intelligence, and in my opinion, paying attention to your surroundings while driving 1000+ lb machine 70 mph down a highway is at the top of the list.
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Rank: Professional Driver  Joined: 5/26/2011 Posts: 38 Location: Oxford, Ohio
Sweet! Can I hook it up to my xbox so when i get shot playing COD it feels like a full body tremor? Does it also come with the martydom perk where i can drop a live grenade after dying? Necessity is the mother of all invention... and thus, the reverse donut was invented.
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Rank: Professional Driver  Joined: 5/26/2011 Posts: 48 Location: The Internet
fourbangerfury wrote:Sweet! Can I hook it up to my xbox so when i get shot playing COD it feels like a full body tremor? Does it also come with the martydom perk where i can drop a live grenade after dying? No only Last Stand.  noobs Uh...Winning.
I'm not BiPolar I'm Bi-Winning.
I'm like a F/A-18 I'll destroy you in the air and then deploy my ordinance upon the ground.
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Rank: Professional Driver  Joined: 5/26/2011 Posts: 42 Location: Earth previously Planet Vegta before it got blown up.
ShowMeThCarFaux wrote:fourbangerfury wrote:Sweet! Can I hook it up to my xbox so when i get shot playing COD it feels like a full body tremor? Does it also come with the martydom perk where i can drop a live grenade after dying? No only Last Stand. noobs Only noobs need deathstreaks but I don't because I'm MLG baby  "Vegata what does carlocate.com say about that car's horsepower?"
"ITS OVER 9000!!!"
"WHAT 9000 THATS IMPOSSIBLE?!?!?!?!"
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Rank: Licensed Driver  Joined: 6/7/2011 Posts: 23 Location: Orlando, FL
Lisa wrote:Technology's being created to make your driver seat vibrate when there's a car in your blind spots so you can be physically alerted without looking for a visual. It can even tell you where the vehicle is. Should help when on autopilot. Maybe this will help all those drivers who merge before looking! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38147388/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/ This is a great article...thanks for sharing!
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