1. Show me something I haven't seen on engadget.

Posted at 2:11AM on Feb 2nd 2008 by Tyler

2. Nice, I bet BenHeck will pounce on this one pretty quick what with his prior experimentation in gaming accessibility (one-handed X-Box controller).

Posted at 5:23AM on Feb 2nd 2008 by Gadget Hacks

3. I would like to know how to write a driver for a game controller under Windows XP. I have a CAN to USB converter and i'd like to use my car as a game controller.

Posted at 2:19PM on Feb 2nd 2008 by Tom

4. that would be sick! car as game controller

Posted at 5:27PM on Feb 2nd 2008 by dylan

5. Now see, I'm waiting for when they get to know nerves a little better and make it so that you can link your nervous impulses to the computer - then you won't need a controller at all. Expand that to work both ways, and you have some authentic force-feedback.

(Speaking of which, where did real force-feedback controllers go, anyway? Not ones that vibrate a little, I mean the big, bulky ones which could kick in a specific direction, based on where you just got hit in the game.)

Posted at 7:40PM on Feb 2nd 2008 by Taehl

6. @3

would that be possible? is there a car that outputs electrical signals based on steering wheel angle, accelerator/brake amount, (stick shift stuff if applicable), etc.? and would it be easily accessible?

at least in my humble experience, a steeling wheel when the car is parked and off doesn't turn very willingly. (compared to when driving). also, the brake, accelerator, clutch all seem to be quite different when parked or when driving.

i think what i'm trying to say (i know nothing about car mechanics...) is that all of the available "controls" in the car are linked mechanically, hydraulically, pneumatically (or however) to other pieces.

of course, I have no experience with car mechanics, so i could be totally wrong, but i think that even if steering/accelerator/etc did output an electrical signal based on their state, they are still linked mechanically to their respective... stuff...

that said, it would be quite neat to see, and i think i saw in popular science a while back some japanese concept car that allowed an in-built driving simulation to interface with the car's controls.

Posted at 9:10PM on Feb 2nd 2008 by joelanders

7. Yeah, but there are very few cars manufactured that do it, mostly the pure electronic one's Its called Drive by wire. and its very expensive to get a hold of.

Posted at 2:38PM on Feb 5th 2008 by TandemFixation

8. Most cars have throttle position sensors and any car with abs will have some sort of break position sensor so that leave steering wheel. Cadillac has a car that changes the headlight position a little bit in response to turning, but that doesn’t mean it is based off the steering wheel, wheel location or part of the linkage.

Posted at 8:04AM on Feb 6th 2008 by JKLSemicolon