Is this the most kickass driving simulator ever?
Posted on 23-05-2015 at 14:09 by MauritsH – 43 Comments”
Nothing comes as close to the real thing as a decent racing simulator. Gamers can make from the feet with top as Assetto Corsa, but as always there is also simulatorgebied an absolute boss over bitches.
The time that die-hard gamers with a nice racestuurtje and a nice video card enough hardware in house to itself in the skin of Schumi or Hakkinen to crawl is behind us. At least three screens, a full racing seat (or car) and a steering wheel-shift knob-pedals-combination that soon thousands of euros. Then you count again on the international servers, where a lot of off ripped.
Nevertheless, it can be hardcore even harder. F1 teams use super-realistic simulators to setups of the cars to tweak and in advance for testing and for drivers it is always useful to figure out where they may have a few tenths or hundredths of a second. Also straatautofabrikanten can in this way secure and relatively cheap on the driving characteristics of new models to the test.
Of that class is also the device of almost 3 million euros where Auto Express recently launched a testritje in made. ‘Normal’ simulators are on six so-called ‘hexapods’, movable parts that are g-forces to simulate. The creator of this beast has, however, addressed differently.
The Ansible Motion simulator is in fact a soil that consisted of multiple layers and, if at any time all sides can move. In contrast to systems with hexapods it is not using hydraulics, but purely of electronics. In doing so, and now it comes, the vestibular system of the driver under less stress, because the cockpit, not heels, but actually moves. In other words: this is a very cool thing in which you additionally avoid getting sick.
In her own words-had the AE editor is indeed the feeling that the steering wheel was connected to two wheels and that you actually notice what the car under your ass. Say no more, we want to have one on the editorial staff.
Rest the big question to you: which virtual car and which track would you a round with this thing? Bonus: there can not break anything, so a mistake is not a problem. I, the undersigned selects in each case a Lotus Cortina, and the circuit of Goodwood. Because awesome.