Toyota Engineers Build World’s Biggest “Playstation”

Toyota has unveiled a massive driving simulator, designed to safely analyse driving characteristics and so develop improved active safety technology. The driving simulator, located at Toyota’s Higashifuji Technical Centre in Japan, provides one of the world’s most-realistic simulated driving environments, allowing driving habits and reactions to be accurately gauged. Key to this virtual reality is the use of a real car placed on a platform housed inside a 7.1-metre-diameter dome, the inside of which serves as a giant 360-degree video screen.

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drew630 - 11/27/2007 12:51:33 PM

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As a person gets out of the simulation.... "Wow, thats the best handling Lexus I have ever driven!!!"

enthusiastx11 - 11/27/2007 1:35:52 PM

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must feel just like driving the real thing...

JUGNU - 11/27/2007 2:29:27 PM

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must feel just like driving the real thing...u mean they'll feel great.

JUGNU

enthusiastx11 - 11/27/2007 8:24:49 PM

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funny. no.

i mean it will feel like a simulation of driving a car with no actual road feel. so just like driving a toyota/lexus product.

Fan1234 - 11/27/2007 11:26:17 PM

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hahaha, so true. bmw fanboys

S4cabriofoxone - 11/27/2007 11:29:07 PM

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Put a Lexus badge on it and it's instant "reliability and quality." Just add water!

enthusiastx11 - 11/28/2007 12:24:47 AM

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huu:

just a bmw badge, a multi-link suspension, a high output engine, decent brakes, a connection with the road....and the toy/lexus might have a chance.

RealitySmack - 11/28/2007 9:17:19 AM

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There are some really stupid people here that make no sense. I don't understand why people have to bash every company that they're not the fan of and "So-Called" fanboys-wannabe. This technology is for RESEARCH morons. It will help reduce the time and cost for doing real-time research. This is exactly what they do in NASA and the Air Force.... So, before bashing on some new technology and not knowing crap about it, don't bash it and take your heads out of some company's ass and smell the fresh air.

StickShiftCamry - 11/28/2007 11:28:20 PM

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Connected to the road feeling, people don't always want that, I have a 530i SMG and a CX-7 and it gets annoying most of the time. I know, I live in NYC.

2007Tahoe - 11/29/2007 9:15:59 PM

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Can I play it? and run it into walls like I do on GTA?