A while back read an article how some companies were researching a joystick like thing to control your car, showed people had a better reaction time to this...Any car companies actually thinking about doing this?

1/9/2006 7:35:03 PM

Check back in 2010

1/9/2006 7:39:52 PM

I think it'd be awesome, personally. Of course I really don't know jack shit about cars, so flame away.

1/9/2006 7:45:48 PM

i say we invent "cars" like in the Jetsons

1/9/2006 7:49:09 PM

I wouldnt trust it for anything with more than 120hp

thinkin' more along the line of SMART cars and such

1/9/2006 7:55:29 PM

the first cars were controlled along those lines as well

1/9/2006 8:02:55 PM

weeesss thats true, but for different reasons. think boat/rudder

1/9/2006 8:26:29 PM

The only thing I don't like about that type of steering is that it would be reliant on electronic control systems w/ servos, electric motors, etc etc. What I like about the good 'ol fashioned steering wheel is that aside from the aid from the power steering system, it's fundamentally a simple mechanical system. Just my $.02

1/10/2006 1:20:29 PM

thered be absolutely no feel in a joystick.. maybe for the days when cars are self guided on the roads or something

1/10/2006 5:43:16 PM

FORCE FEEDBACK YO

1/10/2006 5:48:27 PM

there is no feel/feedback on boat steering wheels and they have been doing relatively fine for years - conjestion rates are definitely much different though

1/10/2006 5:54:25 PM

what a terrible thread

1/10/2006 6:01:28 PM

not to mention if you hit a bump in the road you're probably going to jerk your hand enough to change your direction rather uncontrollably

1/10/2006 7:10:25 PM

Fuck that yo, I want the 4 up, down, left, right arrow keys to control future cars.

1/10/2006 8:26:53 PM

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"Alternative to Steering Wheel?"

I bet I could drive a car using a PS2 controller, but it would be nice to have the wheel as a backup.

1/10/2006 8:59:40 PM

A B select start

1/11/2006 7:31:15 AM

bad idea

1/11/2006 7:42:40 AM

Go drive a forklift or a small CAT. Then you'll see why they won't work well. At low speeds it's cool but at 70ish you'd need a mechanism that changes the sensitivity of the joystick.

The more complicated a system is the higher chance it has of breaking down.

1/11/2006 8:13:15 AM

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" I bet I could drive a car using a PS2 controller, but it would be nice to have the wheel as a backup."

Yep. This is what thousands of hours of playing Gran Turismo gets me.

1/11/2006 10:16:18 AM

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"A B select start"

glad i wasnt the only one who thought of this

1/11/2006 1:13:50 PM

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"What I like about the good 'ol fashioned steering wheel is that aside from the aid from the power steering system, it's fundamentally a simple mechanical system."

im going to agree with this. if your "steering" system shorted out or messed up in any way you're screwed. at least w/o power steering you can still control the vehicle.

1/11/2006 2:41:18 PM

I personally like my steering wheel. I think you would loose a lot of feel with the road without it.

1/11/2006 2:46:56 PM

r/c cars are an excellent thing to try and drive. at low speeds no problem. but if you have a piece of shit transmitter then you'll crash it. The nitro ones that drive excess of 50mph will just be crashed unless you have a dual rate transmitter. This allows the wheel to not move quite as much at higher speeds and thus you don't loose control.

So they better be able to control the rate at high speeds cause moving a stick a little at a high speed will be Raige pointed this out!

1/12/2006 9:55:20 AM

man, every time I drive I think "this whole steering wheel thing is bullshit, why isn't there something better?!"

1/12/2006 8:50:24 PM

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"I bet I could drive a car using a PS2 controller, but it would be nice to have the wheel as a backup."

1/12/2006 8:54:39 PM

anyone remeber honda odyssey back from the 80

1/13/2006 2:21:46 PM

aircraft carriers still have a wheel, but it doesn't physically move the rudder

1/13/2006 3:12:15 PM

it moves the ailerons

1/14/2006 11:48:20 AM

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"what a terrible thread"

1/14/2006 12:00:01 PM

steering wheels are good because small movements dont affect the care greatly. what if i am holding a joystick and sneeze? also, a wheel uses large muscles than dont get word out quickly. I couldn't imagine making a 6 hours drive, for example, using a joystick.


I would be interested in hearing about controls other than a joystick, though. Mental control would be the heat.

1/14/2006 12:01:15 PM

There's no way they'd put joysticks in cars. If they did, steering would have to be electronically controlled. If it were electronically controlled, then people would start hacking them up to be wireless, and we know the gov doesn't want that!

1/14/2006 1:10:46 PM